Butterflies with Fuji X10

 Euploea core | Bowen park, Herston, March 30, 2012 | flickr

Both pictures were taken with Fuji X10 in Macro mode at maximal focal length (~112mm equivalent) at iso 100. Both are cropped, especially Lemon Migrant.

Sometimes it is just impossible to get close to the butterflies because of dense vegetation in the park. That's where I hit the limit of the camera: minimal focusing distance in Macro mode at 112 mm. Even for these fairly big butterflies the frame is just big, to post the original JPEG without cropping. The camera does not focus close enough.

I have impression that all camera manufactures put supermacro mode on short end of the zoom in these days. It seems that none of current cameras have macro focusing capability similar to Olympus C-8080 with supermacro at ~90mm covering as little as 4x3cm.

Catopsilia pomona (?) | Bowen park, Herston, March 30, 2012 | flickr