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=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
Good find, great shot. Where is the cut off between macro and micro?
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.
Two for the price of one.
kpmac wrote:
Two for the price of one.
never seen one like that before,good job!
I wonder if there’s something on the mite that we can’t see at 10x. Nice work.
Sometimes we are all a bit surprised when setting up for a shot. Nice going.
a mighty gripper, its hanging on for dear life.............nice shootin
If you want to reply, then
register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.