Marciare Carinoby
ElGordoComment: Great shot!
I have an idea how difficult this is because I have toyed around with this sort of setup in the past. The first thing I saw in this pic was the lack of camera in the shot. That's tricky! Mirrors can be really fiddly like this.
I didn't even notice the basket weave in the slinky, but after reading of it in your description, I noticed how great it looked alternately reversing in the mirrors too... very cool!
At f/8, it looks like you may have encountered some softness inherent to diffraction limitation. Tough break shooting the P&S on this one...
That is one of the single greatest reasons I knew I had to get a DSLR.
I find that on my S2 (which has a very similar pixel pitch and crop factor to the 8800), anything past f/5.6 starts to get a little soft... At f/7.1 and 8.0 it's quite noticeable.
I recently found a chart with hyperfocal distances for my camera and I think that will help a lot.
Try a google... My hyperfocal distance can be as close as approx 5 meters (if I remember correctly) at f/5.6 which isn't too bad with a bit of zoom...
Something definitely worth researching as this can definitely help with shooting long DOF while keeping your diffraction effects at a minimum!
Message edited by author 2006-05-10 11:38:01. 
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