Sunshine and lollypops…

Nice water droplets.

How do you manage to get so much stuff in focus? Whenever I use my zoom for macro stuff, it seems only one small range is in focus and the rest is horribly out of focus (now admittedly, sometimes I want that effect, but not always).

Well, nothing fancy going on here. I don’t have manual controls for depth of field, so I have just gotten a sense of how this lens works. YOU on the other hand, have tons of manual controls for depth of field. Remember that depth of field varies a lot depending on your zoom. So, try the same f-stop at your minimum and maximum zoom on a macro subject. (You’ll have to move yourself, of course.) This should give you a better sense of your particular lens’ behavior.

I thought Archie Bunker’s chair was in the Smithsonian!

Heh, I think that Judy Garland’s ruby slippers are probably stuck under the chair too.