Shiny beetle

tpe · Nov 9, 2008

This was a very hard to get this subject in a diffuse light so instead it kind of went the other way, it was just so shiny.

Shot with an a700 and reichert 2.5x microscope lens stacked in combineZP.
tim

ChrisJuliano · Nov 9, 2008

Wow thats amazing, So detailed.

tpe · Nov 10, 2008

Thanks Chris, apreciated.

tim

Overread · Nov 10, 2008

Brilliant details tpe! Very sharp result and great stacking - out of interest how many went into this shot?

tpe · Dec 13, 2008

Hi Overread, sorry had a HDD crash immediatly after your last post, there have been 31000 and something since

. There were about 67 images in the stack. The magnification was not that high, the number needed seems to go up with magnification.

V cool avatar btw

tim

Overread · Dec 13, 2008

sorry to hear about the crashes - hope you didn't lose any data!

makes sense though - depth of field reduces rapidly with magnification increases = but 67! you are insane!

With so many I assume this was a dead subject?

keybq · Dec 13, 2008

very nice

tpe · Dec 13, 2008

No problem thanks for the concern Overread, lost a very little, had most backed up, just took a while rebuilding and ordering all the parts now the bus standards have changed again.

It has been upto about 300 for the most, that was for a nematode worm, not very nice as the shutter life on my camera is 100,000 i think so 100,000/300 is about 333? So not a lot of that kind of pictures per body. And yes it was well and truely dead, but i had a live scorpion that stood still for two sets at about 30 each and got slightly rotated in the middle without moving at all

. The wife didnt beleive me though, she said nothing could keep still that long, i guess it takes all sorts

.

Thanks keybq.

tim