Tabanus body & eyes

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Graham46
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Tabanus body & eyes

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This is my first post to photomacrography. An orthogonal view, and eye shot, of Tabanus lineola (correct me if Im wrong).
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Canon 5D mark II with 65mm MP-E at approx. 2X. Lit with macro twin lite mt-24ex. 45 frames stacked in ZS using Pmax. Clone stamped out mounting pin in Photoshop
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Canon 5D mark II with 65mm MP-E at approx. 4X. Lit with macro twin lite mt-24ex. 20 frames stacked in ZS using Pmax.
I have been using ZS for about two months now and am always pleased with the results. Getting a focused abdomen through a wing had been a problem in the past, but comes out very well now.
Questions and comments welcome!
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Re: Tabanus body & eyes

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Graham46 wrote:Tabanus lineola (correct me if Im wrong).
Nice to see some Tabanid photos. T. lineola is a possibilty, it might help an ID if I knew where the specimen was collected.
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” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
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Re: Tabanus body & eyes

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NikonUser wrote:
Graham46 wrote:Tabanus lineola (correct me if Im wrong).
Nice to see some Tabanid photos. T. lineola is a possibilty, it might help an ID if I knew where the specimen was collected.
It was collected off a horse in Harford County, MD
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There are a few spp. in the lineola complex. I think this one is T. subsimilis.
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student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.

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Olympus microscope and objectives
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