This is one of my preserved Japanese Beetles that I staged for a focus stack session. We have an abundance of them here and they are constant eating machines.

This session is an experiment using a Nikon TM Toolmaker 5X Measuring Microscope Objective as the lens of the camera. I also used a sample paint swatch from Lowes paint department as the background color. I have an assortment of different colors to compliment different colored specimens.

The threaded adapter has yet to arrive so I wrapped some tape around the end to make a friction fit into an oversize adapter. Not exact science yet workable for now.