On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:59:23 -0700, John Larkin
Gave us:

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:19:02 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

As promised, here is a photo taken in macro mode at four inches. It is
the bottom side of a IBM Deskstar DTLA-307030 hard drive.

I have that same camera, two of them in fact. It seems fine for
vacation type pictures, but the autofocus is erratic, manual focus is
useless, and macro doesn't seem to do much of anything. And the menus
and manual are a mess. The popup flash is most annoying. I just got a
Sony 7mpix camera that seems better, with its own quirks of course.

John

I have a feeling that you try to compose a macro shot, but place the
camera closer than the minimum focal length.

The other thing to avoid is moving beyond the physical zoom limit
into digital zoom realm.

Also, holding down the popup flash by hand will force a non flash
composition on most cameras.