Ant

gpmatthews · Post by **gpmatthews** » Wed May 16, 2007 3:52 pm

Microscope: Zeiss Standard 16
Ocular: Olympus P15
Objective: Zeiss x1.6 - 5
LED back light
100 W filament lamp + diffuser
120 images/Helicon Focus

Planapo · Post by **Planapo** » Thu May 17, 2007 2:47 am

Graham, here you´ve portrayed a species of the genus Myrmica. (On the understanding that you have collected this specimen around your place.) The portrait shows a lot of interesting detail.

Must be a rare Zeiss objective you are using. I´ve never come across a zoom objective for the common compound microscope. It´d be interesting to have some more information on this one. What N. A. does it have?

Cheerio,
Betty

Erik · Post by **Erik** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:27 am

@gpmatthews: Very good work and a really beautiful picture. My respect counts, above all, for the 120 single photos. The aliens are among us.

Erik

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:56 pm

Boy that looks like a nightmare image to stack! An ambitious endeavor, but it worked, and it certainly looks "other-worldly".

gpmatthews · Post by **gpmatthews** » Fri May 18, 2007 6:19 pm

The zoom objective is

Zeiss Plan1.6/0.03 - 5/0.1
160/-

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:13 pm

Some incredible detail on the head Graham. I have never seen an ant with ridges.