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Mite be a Mite
Jul 9, 2019 18:40:10   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
I was staging another of the insects that Bill had given me for my focus stacking ventures and as I was panning the subject looking for its face I found this tiny mite on a narrow part of it front leg.

I thought that it would make an interesting session so I focused on it with the 10X microscope objective and produced this image of it. You can see the size of the leg hairs as a way to gauge its size. I could not see it with my eyes alone and when I looked at it with a 4-power magnifying glass all I could see was what appeared to be a spot on the leg.

By far, this is the smallest specimen that I have captured an image of.


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Jul 9, 2019 18:48:25   #
newtoyou Loc: Eastport
 
[quote=sippyjug104]I was staging another of the insects that Bill had given me for my focus stacking ventures and as I was panning the subject looking for its face I found this tiny mite on a narrow part of it front leg.

I thought that it would make an interesting session so I focused on it with the 10X microscope objective and produced this image of it. You can see the size of the leg hairs as a way to gauge its size. I could not see it with my eyes alone and when I looked at it with a 4-power magnifying glass all I could see was what appeared to be a spot on the leg.

By far, this is the smallest specimen that I have captured an image of.[/quote

Beautiful. Would you like a 2x convertor, then you get 20x Whew.
Bill

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Jul 9, 2019 18:50:02   #
Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona
 
Good find, great shot. Where is the cut off between macro and micro?

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Jul 9, 2019 19:41:29   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
According to articles that I have read, macro is considered to be 1-to-1 up to 2-to-1. Beyond 2-to-1 is considered to be micro photography.

Several of the regulars here have the Canon MP-65E and they post 5-to-1 images quite frequently with exquisite detail and focus. I would think that it takes nerves of steel, breath control of a deep sea freediver and the eye of an eagle to shoot 5-to-1 handheld in the field as they do and thus they are truly in the micro photography realm at that point.

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Jul 9, 2019 20:14:32   #
kpmac Loc: Ragley, La
 
Two for the price of one.

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Jul 9, 2019 21:58:46   #
tinusbum Loc: east texas
 
kpmac wrote:
Two for the price of one.


never seen one like that before,good job!

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Jul 10, 2019 07:32:13   #
ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA
 
I wonder if there’s something on the mite that we can’t see at 10x. Nice work.

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Jul 10, 2019 08:36:23   #
NJFrank Loc: New Jersey
 
Sometimes we are all a bit surprised when setting up for a shot. Nice going.

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Jul 10, 2019 10:54:19   #
napabob Loc: Napa CA
 
a mighty gripper, its hanging on for dear life.............nice shootin

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