Macro

I've been playing with the macro capability on the Powershot S2 IS camera a bit lately. The following is a close-up photograph of a tiny flower being worked by a bee that, although I keep hearing has been dying off, seems to still be quite plentiful here in western Washington.


A limitation of the Powershot S2 IS shows up in this photograph. It is impossible to stop the lens down more than F8 and thus impossible to get a decent depth of field. A macro lens I have for my 35mm camera stops down to F22 which gives a depth of field just short of a pinhole camera.

Yes, I know I can't expect as much from a $300 digicam. Still I don't understand some of Canon's design decisions, particularly with respect to the lens on this camera.