Mand,

Sorry to hijack this particular subtangential tangent off the original quadreplicated crossthread topic, or anything...

..but for what it's worth I got some fairly sharp closeup photo results last year for a few sets of closeup pics where I held a 4 inch (10.16) magnifying glass in at my first growth shoot development say, and held it there while I snapped the dig cam at the approxmate position my eye was in when I was seeing the subject area in focus.

Cam has a closeup setting which is what I recall working best.