Video of Sminthurinus niger wandering around on the top of an upturned clay pot. Taken with my little modded sports camera. The springtail is about 0.8mm body length.
I have cleaned the sensor since
Brian V.
Link
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/33035688011
Search found 1571 matches
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 11:49 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Springtail Sminthurinus niger video
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1321
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:25 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: The Sani Project (III)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1370
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:24 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: High Magnification Springtail video
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1082
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 2:49 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: High Magnification Springtail video
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1082
High Magnification Springtail video
Still playing with my little sportscam. Taken with my little sportscam with an industrial c-mount high magnification lens fitted. sportscam cost £33, Lens cost £30, C mount adapter, M12 ext tube and UV/IR cut filter around £15. Taken in low light with no additional lighting - handheld. Working dista...
- Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:24 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Springtail videos
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1137
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:45 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Springtail videos
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1137
As common as these must be, I have not seen many and I am sure I have not seen the cute little globular springtails. I suppose they are generally on the ground, in shaded areas? They are common in Winter here. Yes they prefer damp areas so under fallen leaves is a good place to find them. They are ...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 12:29 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Springtail videos
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1137
Springtail videos
I've been playing around with a cheapo sports camera clone. For these videos I've replaced the lens with a cctv zoom lens with no IR cut filter. This seems to make it far more sensitive to light but gives a rather odd colour rendition which I have filtered a bit in PP (it also enables me to use it a...
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 11:49 pm
- Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Do you see a normal stereo ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1861
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:08 pm
- Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Do you see a normal stereo ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1861
Thanks all for the info. I was surprised that the areas eg antennae that were clearly different in detail level still seemed to give a reasonably correct spacial image that seemed to carry the detail. It may be something to do with eye dominance I suppose as long as the dominant eye is seeing the de...
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 12:01 am
- Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Do you see a normal stereo ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1861
Do you see a normal stereo ?
Doing a focus stack of this little springtail sitting on a fence rail. Managed one sequence but when I started doing a second sequence for a stereo pair, I managed one shot and then it moved. Just for fun I tried a cross-eye stereo of the stack on one side and the single shot on the other and it app...
- Mon Jan 30, 2017 11:45 pm
- Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Playing with an action cam
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1591
Still playing with the camera. Having purchased a spare lens I have removed the IR/UV filter from the first lens and now have an IR set up. Example shot below. I have temporarily fitted an industrial C mount macro lens and it gives a mag range of around 1cm to 3.5mm across the frame but I need an ex...
- Fri Jan 27, 2017 4:04 am
- Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Playing with an action cam
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1591
There are a few more interesting things about these action cameras (or at least some of them, I know from direct experience that the following applies to some of the Gopro models, and it may or may not apply to other brands and models): The NIR- and UV-cut filter is stuck at the rear of the lens, n...
- Fri Jan 27, 2017 12:28 am
- Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Playing with an action cam
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1591
Playing with an action cam
Bought one of those tiny gopro clones on amazon on offer and have been having a play. As is, it does not focus very close (it's a fixed focus lens) but adding a Raynox DCR-250 to it enables it to focus down to about 3" away. A 14mp sensor and lots of built in capabilities such as interval shooting b...
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 11:38 pm
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Soap film interference colours take 3
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1738
- Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:29 pm
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Soap film interference colours take 3
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1738
Re: Soap film interference colours take 3
In take 2 I solved the motion blur just using a higher shutter speed but the shots still had OOF areas due to the angle of the camera to the soap film needed to see the colours. With take 3 I added more glycerol to the soap mix and found the colour patterns stopped swirling around. This allowed me ...