ALPHA - thanks for the advice! My camera does have spot-metering, going to have to experiment MORE with this when I get a chance! SUEO - I didn't use a tripod for any of the shots above! Picked one up this weekend at a flea market. Haven't been able to use it as I'm searching for the mount, which was missing. My camera goes up to 800 ISO. I've used the 200 ISO setting with SOME decent results, but anything higher brings in ALOT of noise.