sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

This is one of my preserved Boxelder Bugs that I found in abundance on a bush along our fence this past summer. I staged it for a focus stacking session using a 10X Infinity Microscope Objective as the camera's lens. The objective is mounted onto a reverse mounted Raynox DCR-150 (208mm) as the required 'tube lens' which is connected to sections of extension tubes and camera mount adapters to focus to infinity.

This was a first time attempt using the Fujifilm X-T20 with a microscope objective setup. At 10-power magnification the focus was to showcase the compound and primitive eye. There are 350 images in this stack with the camera set to advance 5-microns per image taken.

As always, thanks in advance to all who view and for your comments, suggestions, questions and critique.

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newtoyou Loc: Eastport

Ah. Another gem.
I want to point out, one micron is 39 MILLIONTHS of an inch.
You are viewing the thickness of setae in sections.
And welcome back.
Gizzy?
Now I know the source of the phrase 'lucky dog'. All of your's.
Bill

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Thanks, Bill. It's nice to have someone put a reference to just how fine the movement of the camera is which is why it takes hundreds of steps to travel just a millimeter. I sit there at times and I can hear the camera hit but I can't see that it moved at all. Of course after about 30-minutes of the camera shooting and moving when it is finished I can see on the computer that it traveled a millimeter or so in the entire process.

The depth of field when using a microscope objective is 'flat' corner to corner (think of a glass slide under a microscope) so that only a tip of a hair is in focus at any time as the camera marches forward.

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

Very nice work!

Pysanka Artist Loc: Rochester, NY

Eye see you!