A double dip of Diptera

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:14 pm

Still playing around with the lower power objectives and HF. Here are images of two different flies. The photos were assembled from fairly large "stacks" (30-40 pictures or so). The first was done with a 3X objective; the second was a larger specimen and was taken using a 2.5X. A 2.5X photo-eyepiece was used with both, and lighting was provided by 2 fiber optic light guides, partially diffused.

Frez · Post by **Frez** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:39 pm

Yikes!! That specimen looks perfect. There's hardly any dust. Did you have to deal with any morie patterns from the eyes? Tremendous image Charlie!

Frez

Wim van Egmond · Post by **Wim van Egmond** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:27 am

Magnificant view on that fly!

a little suggestion. If you are able to rotate the fly a bit you can take two images at different angles and make a stereoscopic image! It would be great to see that with those stacked images!

Wim

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:21 am

I've seen a lot of fly close-ups Charlie but none like this. These are great.

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:14 am

Wim... I've done "conventional" 3D stuff where you shift the camera horizontally, but never tried "micro" 3D. Do you simply "rotate" the subject around an arbitrary axis for two images, or is there a more precise methodology? I think you are right... something like this in 3D would be quite impressive.... almost scary!