Butterfly proboscis revisited

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Butterfly proboscis revisited

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Digging up that old thread of mine on butterfly proboscis http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... 9562#89562 jogged my memory that I had some more butterfly tongue pictures somewhere. A bit of research on a poorly indexed :oops: and overfull :cry: archive drive turned up the stacks I was looking for. These images are of the tip of a Pieris (cabbage white) butterfly proboscis and show pollen grains firmly sticking on. They are a stitch of two Zerene Pmax stacks, each of 38 images taken using a Lomo X20, 0.65 Apochromat objective, with a Nikon X40 DIC prism on a Nikon Diaphot. Camera, Canon EOS 40D, magnification at the camera X50.

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I made a stereo pair of the same subject from a single 39 image PMax stack, using a Nikon X10, 0.25 plan DIC objective. There are lots of unfixed transparency issues, but I think it still looks interesting

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I also restacked this image from my old thread
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/u ... rey2_1.jpg and converted it to a Zerene stereo pair and post it here rather than posting new images in a very old thread.



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I just love the sheer baroqueness of this structure!
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Amazing works.
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Probocis

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Very effective 3D.
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Excellent!!

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Interesting!

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Thanks Fred, Michael and Rogelio for your kind comments.

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Excellent images. This subject really is fun to see in a 3D version.

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Post by Cactusdave »

Thanks Charlie. Yes, the 3Ds are interesting. I especially was pleased with the second one, which just shows so much depth and detail. It does very much remind me of baroque molding on an elaborate gilt picture frame.
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