The Flea

[Forehead]

This first shot is unstacked, but also NOT cropped.

Using a Canon Powershot A520 zoomed all the way out, in macro mode, manual focussed as close as I could get, aperture fixed at f/8, ISO 50, and also with a 25mm eyepiece off of a 4-inch Meade reflecting telescope...AND one of the two lens elements off of Ray Enterprises 10X loupe, which just happened to fit nicely within the little rubber eye cup on the eyepiece.

All this mounted on a chopped-up plastic Tasco microscope used as a make-shift macro rail of sorts:

[Forehead]

...and THIS one is from a 9-frame stack, with a little tonal editing but, again, NO crop:

[handlebar]

All I can say is that this is delightfully disgusting. I love macro and what a clear shot for a canon A520. I have played with the A620 and that can only get down to about the size of a quarter but still pretty cool. I would like to have a Bellows for my XT to do similar stuff. Just maybe not fleas.

[Skippy]

...and THIS one is from a 9-frame stack, with a little tonal editing but, again, NO crop:


Gosh, it does show up a lot more detail, you can see more in the body and more of the finer body hairs..... thanks for sharing your experiments, they're lookin good :thumb ....... Skippy (Australia)

[Forehead]

Well, that A520 did have some extra help. Otherwise, that flea would show up on the screen at maybe 1/4-1/2 inch.

With no actual microscope, this is about the best I can do. But I've needed some tricky subjects to characterize Alan Hadley's CombineZM software (www.hadleyweb.com (http://www.hadleyweb.com), for your free download) especially to help our lab manager. The poor guy needs a way to make better images of the metallurgical samples and deposits we gather from the sites we sample all over the four winds. And focus-stacking software seems to be the way to overcome the very shallow DOF issues of microscopy.



All I can say is that this is delightfully disgusting. I love macro and what a clear shot for a canon A520. I have played with the A620 and that can only get down to about the size of a quarter but still pretty cool. I would like to have a Bellows for my XT to do similar stuff. Just maybe not fleas.

[Forehead]

Looks better OFF ya than ON ya, ayy???

Gosh, it does show up a lot more detail, you can see more in the body and more of the finer body hairs..... thanks for sharing your experiments, they're lookin good :thumb ....... Skippy (Australia)

[Awais Yaqub]

How small it is ?

[Forehead]

About 2, maybe 3 mm.

How small it is ?