[lisaly]

I have to read through everything written here slowly, and then I'll respond again. I just wanted to mention that sometimes a camera has difficulty focusing if there's not much color difference in the subject. Your pictures of your precious Pippin are pretty close, and the focus points are all her dark hair. I wonder if you tried to put a little topknot in her hair if you would be having the same problems. It would have something a different color to distinguish the focus points. Test it out and see if that makes a difference, and you will be able to see if that's the reason why it isn't focusing right. I love the angles that you are using and the pictures are great. The camera is hunting to find focus and can be set up to take the picture so that it won't take it if it is not in focus if you want.

The lens also has a minimum distance that you can take a picture for it to be in focus.