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I'm pretty sure it was "Midge". I remember being surprised the first time I heard "Madge", it sounded so strange. Still does, actually. But I don't know the origin of the name and I never saw it written down. Could have been a odd pronunciation, or perhaps a nickname like "midget".NikonUser wrote:Wasn't that lady who lived down the street Madge rather than Midge?
True, HF has trouble with this one. The combination of low contrast and overlapping structure is difficult for depth map algorithms. CombineZP's pyramid max method actually works pretty well on this stack. The image shown here was generated using Zerene Stacker's "PMax". It's a pyramid method, similar to CombineZP's at this level of detail. Generally works quite well with hairy subjects.Those plumose antennae with crisscrossing hairs and not a halo in sight; and the row of hairs on the middle leg - no halos. That's got to be some real good stacking software. I would not want to try this stack with HF.
Neat, aren't they? The cool thing is that when the critter wants to, it can fold up those antennae almost like a stack of umbrellas. All those strands that are pointing to the side as shown here apparently pivot at the base so as to point forward along the main shaft. In that configuration, the antennae look thick and solid even under 10X magnification. When I first saw this critter sitting in a window, I didn't know what it was. I had a few minutes to study the closed antennae under a stereo scope, but before I could set up to photograph them, they popped out into the more conventional fluffy set that you see here.My god look at the antennae on that thing!
