:o Can't read the article as I'm not a registered user of nytimes.com, but that sure is a real close up there ... I hope ... for all I know that article could be about a new breed of 6 foot tall flies ;) I got the Tamron 180mm macro lens earlier this week (finally, yey!) - though you can't get the amount of magnigication shown here I did notice that in 1:1 mode you could see details that you couldn't see with the human eye (like the print dots on a DvD case). Going to have fun with it this weekend :) :)