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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mdb2" data-source="post: 1786083" data-attributes="member: 79690"><p>As your aware I am a Newbie at this.  A/F was used although I was getting a bit fed up with it shunting. and tried manual. also a little trick I found was to use the top A/F point to get the eye in focus and not worry about the rest? what do you use?  I think because of the DOF any slight movement by me exasperated the situation,  will try your idea of upping the aperature. and iso. I was in manual mode. as i say its hard to get the whole butterfly in the shot, some of them were the size of sparrows. great few hrs though must of lost a few pounds in weight what with the heat and humidity. will try to get back there again.   mike</p></blockquote><p></p>