I'm Carl Nikon lol ... I started off with a magnifying glass taped to the end of the lens hood on a Minolta camera, had to manually move to & fro to get in focus & take one shot.
30 years later the setup/method is very different.
Nikon D700 & macro lens, several flash units. The camera is mounted on a DIY sliding table with a micrometre driving the very small movements ie 0.01 millimetre or less sometimes.
At such magnification the focal plane is so shallow, very little is in focus, I take one shot at a time & moving the camera forward using the micrometre, say starting at the end a forward protruding hair on the wasps head, then moving forward with the focal plane through the rest of the wasp, taking a shot each movement. Maybe one or two hundred (or more) shots will be taken then some clever software will stitch all the 'in focus' aspects from each shot to create one photo, tech helps.
Hope I've cobbled together something understandable.
The wee beasties were found already dead, ie windowsill, washed & cleaned, even a little blow dry lol.
Awesome!! What a clever and refined process that is. I don't feel quite so bad about my attempts which being spur of the moment and never subject to post processing, (If I didn't get it right in camera, I didn't get it.. is my very limited ethos)
I own a "Mustek" microscope from ebay, which although an early model and glitchy, I feel would be a lovely first macro photography tool, although so far I've been using it as a microscope for looking at small stuff liek SMD devices, (bah!) rather than exploring it's potential as a camera.
I want to add a remote switch before I try that because the clicky button and crappy ergonomics make the "taklng" too hit and miss when really looking at the small stuff.
They might have improved the current models, of course, but there again they might have "improved" the latest model, so I'll stick with what I have whilst it does the job it was bought for..
Awesome!! What a clever and refined process that is. I don't feel quite so bad about my attempts which being spur of the moment and never subject to post processing, (If I didn't get it right in camera, I didn't get it.. is my very limited ethos)
I own a "Mustek" microscope from ebay, which although an early model and glitchy, I feel would be a lovely first macro photography tool, although so far I've been using it as a microscope for looking at small stuff liek SMD devices, (bah!) rather than exploring it's potential as a camera.
I want to add a remote switch before I try that because the clicky button and crappy ergonomics make the "taklng" too hit and miss when really looking at the small stuff.
They might have improved the current models, of course, but there again they might have "improved" the latest model, so I'll stick with what I have whilst it does the job it was bought for..
