Gabe, now, I want to kill you!!!11 ;oD ...seriously, my Minolta is good old systems camera with film inside it. I know, focus point is just litte bit too near. Blurryness comes from closeup lens I use. No ca$h to buy those fancy expensive macro equipments, so closeup lens, (or is it closeup filter?) is cheap way to do the same trick. So this is not actually macrio pic, just magnified. Thanks for a comment pal, always welcomed. Critisism is always better than praising. Alpha, does the tension work between flower and blurred background flower in the corner? I think the grain comes from scanner, I got A3-scanner here, and even its HP and really expensive one, I bet its no good for scanning photos. Grain may be from film also. Since I'm not familiar with playing with films, I use 400 most of the time. But, gotta do little photoshopping majic and voila, no grain. Distance to the flower was about, 30-40cm. And, now comes the shame-on-me-part, I'm not recording my f-stops. If I shoot traning pics, then I will, but else, nope. .n