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Adalbert
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Hello everybody,

Enclosed you will find some problems that occurred during the taking of the photographs
of the eyes of the insects e.g. mirroring, reflections, discoloration, decay.

Mostly the microscope lens is reflected / mirrored in the big eyes of a spider or true bug.
Sometimes the color of the decayed eyes is being changed e.g. of a dung beetle from black to yellow.
The compound eye of a fly looks like some hexagon nuts.



1.) Mirroring

2.) Reflections

3.) Decay

4.) Hexagon nuts
Fly
Image

5.) Discolor

Wasp (discolored by the background)
Image


BR, ADi
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Those are gorgeous photos anyway. What did you use for the higher-m shots?

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Post by Adalbert »

Hi Lou,
Mostly the NIKON LU Plan 5X, 10x, 20x ELWD and Olympus MSPlan 50x ULWD
and using my DIY cheap rail:
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... highlight=
and the CANON EF 70-200L as a tube-lens.
BR, ADi

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Thank you. Those Olympus MSPlan 50x objectives are surprisingly cheap! I should get one.

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Crazy elegant images!

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Hi Lou,
Yes, my MSPlan 50x /0.55 ULWD was very cheap :-)
But its problem is CA which I remove with LR during the conversion from RAW into the TIFF.
Sometimes I use the following method:
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... highlight=
BR, ADi

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Post by Adalbert »

Hi Mike,
Yes, the hexagon nuts are really crazy :-)
BR, ADi

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Post by Lou Jost »

Ah, I remember that thread....Judging from the pictures, I had thought your lens was free of CA, so I bought it just before reading that last note of yours. Oops. Anyway it will be good to learn that method of removing CAs. Thanks for reminding us of it.

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And now I remember why it has CA. It is not one of the newer Oly objectives, so it needs eyepiece correction of CA.

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I wish all my "problems" would come out that good!

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In my ignorance, I don`t see the problems.
Very nice photos.
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Post by Adalbert »

Hi Lou,
The LU Plans are not really better than the MSPlan :-)
I don’t have any lens without CA :-(
BR, ADi

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Post by Adalbert »

Hi Beatsy,
The biggest two problems are: the reflection of the lens and the hexagon nuts, I think.
They are not easy to remove :-(
BR, ADi

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Hi All Ex,
Please take a look at the hexagon nuts.
BR, ADi

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Post by All Ex »

Adalbert do you use any big surface for diffusion?
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