Now thats a picture i would call outstanding! Very good lighting and composition in my personal humble opinion!

Would be really interesting to know how you created that composition and how you made that grasshopper pose that patiently!

Thx guys:) For the clamps I have some info that may help to get them: at least in europe they are also sold under the product name Ermeto. Here another detail of my rig; this is about placing backgrounds, lights, diffusors or the object of interest itself. The profiles used for conctruction of the r...

All Ex, if you got your problem with a stripped BD Plan you definitely have to close the light path between the inner and outer shell because definitely a LOT of light would enter there.
If the problem also occurs with a non-stripped objective I can't help.

To complet the story I present a Picture of a 20 Euro note, shot at somewhat above 20x with a Nikon M Plan 20x ELWD and the stack shot. Depth of field is about 3 um, but the calculated rear step size is about 1.3 mm (DOF*Mag.^2). Actually I shot 48 pictues with rear step size of 1.0 mm, distance cam...

As I have mentioned above, I have made an automated rear focussing mechanism. For that I have modified a cheap M42 bellows in a way that it can be mounted on acra swiss clamps: http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1572_P1590770_1.jpg The front part mounted in a fixed Position, the rear part...

Downwards shooting, very helpful for objects that cant be pinned: http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1572_P1590732_1.jpg An example shot that way (sugar crystals on a mirror plate): http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1572_20170212221452_ZS_PMax_3.jpg Using a bellows (gives much...

Adapter plate on stack shot. This is important: I have drilled 2 additional holes for better fixation (the 2 original holes are a joke). The plate allows me to mount acra swiss quick release clamps or the 45 mm pipe clamps for the M42 tubes. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1572_P159073...

Hi guys, Some years ago I have presented my all-directions macro rig: http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12586 Time has passed and I have little by little improve that rig. Actually every time when I was annoyed by some limitation during shooting I worked out a way around it. In f...

yeah I understand what you mean

It's an interesting technique, I wanna try that too. Just for understanding: wouldn't be the stacked result be the same with all (less) images captured at f9?

Hello Charles, thats a nice solution with the Bridgelux parts, if I had seen that earlier, I would probably have gone that way. However, in between I have done some testing and found a nice (seems so) solution with a collimating lens placed directly in front of the LED. This lens is kept in place by...

Thx Jam35, I shot this freehand with a Panasonic G5 and the Leica Elmarit Makro 45 mm F2.8.

Shot this in a local greenhouse

Ok I did describe the process in http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12127 I have in between done some studies about optics because I want to assess which lens/sensor combination is good/bad, where the the limitations lie and what to change to improve the setup. I know how to calcu...

@ChrisR: Actuallly I also have a BD Plan Apo (40x 0.80), I came across it before I got the BD Plan 40x ELWD and could not resist. I am very sure that the thread to remove the outer case is in the same position as for all the other BD Plans - just beside the knurling. But removing that outer case doe...