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Thanks for your kind remarks Jorge. I lost this thread (forgot which forum it was in) so this reply is somewhat late. I hope to update the keys this year if it rains a lot!

I take this opportunity to say that your photos of Helina clara are really the best I have seen. Close up photos of anthomyiids would make it easy to identify; I don't know how you got the depth of field?

I was investigating today if I could screw in a macro lens onto my Fuji Fine Pix, it's got some threads on the lens bit. I asked a chap in the local camera shop, and he showed me a small lens (only about an inch long) which was not expensive, ?40 and X4 I think. I will take my camera in the shop and try it out.

For the time being I shall have to stick with my rather poor attempts to shoot through the binocular eyepiece, which works better than I thought.


Michael