I would run it over D:

XD But then I wouldnt have gotten the shot!

I Found A Black Widow Once.

Yea, we found one of those a few days later at the Getty Center =X

I would of ran it over then back up and then go again D= lol Spiders creap me out haha

Not a huge fan, but this was a good opportunity =D

lol Yeah I know what you mean haha.Those suckers are hard to kill anyways lol. One time there was one on my back doore and I went to go inside so I grabed the hose and was spraying it and it didnt fall off so I started to wack it with the hose lol it lived xD

they are kinda cool.. but any other spider i would smashed like crazy XD

Yea, I dont care either way for spiders too much, but I do generally lean on the side of squish when in my house.

Encountering dangerous animals at that park seems to be a common occurrence. And I want a camera like that.

That was really the only dangerous one we saw. The camera is amazingly inexpensive despite its picture quality.

Tarantulas aren't really aggressive. You probably could have handled it, actually... 55mm? You weren't very close... o.o

I hear that it depends on what species; some are aggressive others are not. I dont know enough to know the difference. As far as how close I got, the closest I got with the camera was about a foot. This isnt a full frame camera so its not a full 55mm XD

Most of the North American ones are rather tame-ish. If you know their body language, you can tell whether or not its going to attack.

Yea, I figured the abdomen up thing was one of those signals. I know the rearing up of the front with fangs out is, I just figured this was one level bellow that.

Macro images are very tricky, as your Depth of Field goes down to almost nil. It becomes absolutely critical to achieve the correct focus in these kinds of shots. In this one, you're fopcused just slightly behind where you should be. (The spider's mandibles should really be in focus)

Of course, when dealing with questionably dangerous subjects, you take what you can get, right? :) I've yet to get a good focused picture of a spider, and this is a far cry closer than what I've managed yet :)

Yea, it focused on the abdomen and not the eyes, where I would have liked it to be. The problem is that I dont have any kind of swivel screen fanciness and I didnt risk putting myself onto the ground so I could see from the viewfinder lest it potentially charge and I be screwed XD That meant that I had to go auto focus which meant that I was at the less than tender mercies of what the camera thought was important.

I was also reluctant to put my hand on the lens to try focusing (not that I would be able to see that it was focused or not anyway) as I rather enjoyed the fact that my camera was between me and the spider XD

But that spider wouldn't harm a fly! Oh wait... no, he'd eat the fly. :)

Now what you really need to find is one of these: http://dark-raptor.deviantart.com/a.....pider-70298137 They don't look like they'd hurt anything :D

And a quick solution to your viewfinder problem? Angle finders. you can pick them up cheap on eBay :) (~30, and they're pretty much universal)

Ill have to look into the angle finders thing. I could definitely see that being useful some times.

He has one of those angle finders =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq7jm0kdtgE

Yep, that's the beast :) You can find them cheap (~30) on eBay (brand specific will run you ~$200 otherwise), and they usually offer some form of magnification so that you can critically focus your image.

he was posing :P

He was saying "dont come any closer!". I was listening...mostly intently XD

hahah yeah trust me i wouldn't have even stopped the car i woulda gone and gone and gone never looked back