Wasp Abdomen

mjkzz · Post by **mjkzz** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:04 pm

Lens used: https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/ ... hp?t=37702

100% crop

Sony A7III in electronic shutter and full frame mode
MJKZZ Ultra Rail
2 LEDs continuous lights
Magnification is about 2x
ISO 100, Shutter Speed = 1/10s
41 JPEG images
Zerene Stacking Software

Larger Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60552763@ ... ed-public/

Beatsy · Post by **Beatsy** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:12 am

Beautiful resolution and details. These industrial (and scanner) lenses are wonderful around 2x. It's surprising just how many subjects are perfectly suited for that magnification too. Not long ago, If I had to choose only one of my lenses to keep (for studio macro), it would have been the 5x Mitty. Not any more!

Harald · Post by **Harald** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:14 am

Amazing

Great details and light.

Thanks for sharing

mawyatt · Post by **mawyatt** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:56 am

Nice image & lens setup!! That ProOptic is looking very good.

With the lens setup you have shouldn't you be able to move the variable aperture forward or backwards to achieve perfect telecentricity (if that's a proper word) with the variable 42mm long extension ring?

Best,

mjkzz · Post by **mjkzz** » Fri Aug 17, 2018 8:28 am

Thanks Beatsy, I have to agree with you as I do not have many lenses/objectives and you are far more experienced. But this lens is the best so far for this magnification range.

Thanks Harald

Mike, yes, I can fine tune the placement of the aperture assembly to get better results. But I think the bottle neck here is the aperture itself, I do not want to get into diffraction zone, so I only stopped one stop down (vs making it really small to gain better telecentricity)