Visualization of the variation in image quality, level of detail and proportion of the specimen fitting the frame (insets) at different levels of optical magnification (1–4 times) and distance from the lens (11–5 cm). Every image, shot with the compact camera, is composed of 29 manually stacked images at the narrow setting and cropped to equal dimensions (approx. 1/24 of the original image). Quality and detail improve as lens distance decreases and/or the zoom increases at the cost of reduced depth of field and a smaller portion of the specimen fitting the image frame.