Welcome back the microscope adapter is no longer in my possession Make a hole in a body cap? 50 little parts and odd DIY solutions That's what I find every time I open a box I've forgotten about. Just think of yours as one box of parts, and you'll heep sane a little longer. Keep the box closed to o...

I've Been absent due to school and other stuff going on but Im currently re-setting up the macro equipment for the first time since October 27th (when I did that macro presentation)! I've got literally 50 little parts and odd DIY solutions laying all around the house im going to have to find and re-...

Alright, sorry for the late update but I've been a bit busy :wink: All in all..... it was a major success! A small section of the class didn't even understand DOF so explaining the technical stuff to them was a lost cause, but a few students understood it all so I consider that part a success :) Las...

Thanks guys for all the advice.
And nope, its not tell 4 pm tonight

Thanks everyone for the kind words :) I am definitely writing notes/an outline for myself to work off of. I've got a rough idea what im going to do, but I plan on just going with the flow for the most part. Im bringing my whole stacking rig for the most part in addition to the standard L bracket/fla...

Well tomorrow's the big day, when I have to do a presentation on a topic of my groups choice in front of 60+ people :shock: I am HORRIBLE at public speaking so I extremely nervous, but I am interested to see how I do considering this will be my first ever presentation involving something I have an a...

info on the lighting setup?

I was bothered by a number of elements in that fellow's tirade. Among them, that he referred to Zerene Stacker as a $300 program. Sure, it's $290 for professional use, but I'll bet the great majority of users are paying $40 (students) or $90 (non-pros). --Chris From another perspective, CS5 costs W...

Thanks Ab. This looks great. I'm sorry to hear about the mantis's health problem, but it sounds like you didn't do anything to cause those. Using a single background image to paint over the artifact lines is a standard way of recovering from slight misalignment. I gather you used Gimp to do that, an...

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6107/6255371599_07940f7671_z.jpg Stagmomantis Limbata by yeatzee (now 17, but still learning) , on Flickr 97 image stack with my usual El-nikkor 50mm F/2.8 reversed on bellows ;) 3 ikea lamps used for light, styrofoam cup for diffusion. Background was done with paint ...

Thanks everyone! Its was a really cool experience and I hope to do more macro video's of insects hunting soon!

thanks guys

Im a little behind in responding but the very next day i went to take some closer mag. shots and the eyes completely faded. Pretty incredible!

I had a quick play with a plastic cap I found, the smaller diameter of which shoves onto the end of an imperial micrometer. One revolution is 25 thou, which is 635 microns. The circumference of the larger part of the cap is 90mm So 1mm = 7 microns (635/90) So in Photoshop I made the scale with 0.7m...

Well I have been given a chance to play with a 10x objective, so here's the first non-test shot I've done with it :) First and foremost I must say, wow definitely a whole new world has been opened up and wow a whole new set of problems! :wink: my tripod based setup as anticipated was not capable of ...

could you go more into detail the lighting setup Nikola?