Thanks for the nice comments! I pulled the stereo image into StereoPhoto Maker and blew it up so I could see all the details. The translucency showing structures on multiple levels comes through wonderfully. --Rik Yes - For translucent subjects like this it is realy worth the effort making stereo pi...

The genital aperture of a tick under UV light. I used a Nikon 20x fluor microscope objective.

Nice, thanks for posting.

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Jörgen Hellberg

Nice!
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Congratulations!

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I was actually out looking for snakes using my 400mm and one extension tube to get some extra distance not to disturb the animals. The 400mm pictures are not macro so I do not post them here. On my way back I used my 100mm macro. The first picture is a Wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa). The second is ...

Original and very nice!
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Really nice!
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Nice!
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center at 100%

I got a copy of the Nikon plan apo 20x 0.75. Many thanks to Adalbert that made a post about it here https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=258554#258554 Used as intended, with a coverslip, this objective performs nicely. This is from a microscope preparate of male genitalia from a ch...

Very nice!
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Nice picture. Your webpage, made me remember that it was your pictures that was one of the main reasons that I wanted to photograph butterfly scales.

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Interesting, thanks för posting.
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Back to the initial question. My apo ronar 360 mm is nice and was not expansivt. But needed a lot of stepping rings and tubes to adapt. The nikon 300 needs a piece of tape to hold focus at infinity using it vertical. The nikon 400 might be to expensive. Another option is to use a teleconverter. Hope...