Well, I tried it all. Magnifying glass in and out as well as the cup method and I found something out: a 10yr old Kodak digital (standard and digital zoom) and a 5yr old off brand el-cheapo P&S digital (digital only zoom) will not shoot flies, no matter how hard you try. They will not focus on a fly 5" or 5' away (actually, the cup is less than 5".) I will see if I can borrow my mothers newer P&S Sony (EZ-Something-Or-The-Other) and see if I can make any of these methods work.
I also tried the no magnifier method with the E-520 and there doesn't seem to be too much difference, except that it is much easier to keep the reflection out of the picture.
The result: (Sorry it's a little off center.)
Last edited by Luke McLeod; 02-24-2012 at 09:44 PM.
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