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Posted by JohnS on July 29, 2002 at 05:01:47:
In Reply to: Cat Photography, Beginning Photographer posted by Ameena Lessner 21:56:16 07/28/02
Sometimes what you have to do is get the IS camera focused at the wide lens setting (28mm) and then gradually move the zoom to the longer focal length setting, checking to focus at each point by depressing lightly on the shutter button, til you get where you want. This will work when the camera will not focus at the 110mm setting, immediately, at least it has on my wife's Olympus IS-20.
Also, some of the IS cameras have a macro mode--but I can't remember whether the IS-10 does. On the IS-20 it is on the ring around the shutter button as a flower. On the IS-3 it is on the lens, next to where you zoom in and out, also pictured as a flower.
If you really need a cheap close focusing camera that will give you SLR results, without paying hundreds, get a Praktica or another screw mount M42 camera and equipped with a standard Pentacon or Zeiss Tessar lens.
Taking close up photos one handed is almost impossible, even if the camera is light like the Olympus IS-10, there will always some camera shake with a camera of this weight. If you have to do it one handed, then you'll have to move to a very small Macro point and shoot, like the Olympus Newpic M10, or something like that. The problem with using one of these is the parallax error resulting from being so close to your subject, you will not really know if you got the subject within the photo until you get your film processed.
The other option is to get a small digital camera with close up capabilities, but if you want SLR quality photos you are talking serious $$$ ($500 or more).
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