Not a great photo, and only one eye is in focus, but taking anything at 10:1 magnification and f/5.6 with a bellows is a small feat in itself (especially difficult if it is a jumping spider, but this guy spent some time cleaning his fangs with his palps, giving me a chance to try a high magnification shot). I used the 28mm reversed on extension tubes mounted to the bellows at full extension. The field of view as shown above is likely ~1.5mm give or take a bit, I'm guessing pretty roughly.
I photographed a ruler using the above setup, and I could just barely fit 2mm in the field of view.
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Antonio CarneiroS 18 months ago | reply
That is an amazing.
HELLO CHICAGO 18 months ago | reply
Congrats on getting into National Geographic
Chrissie2003 18 months ago | reply
OUTSTANDING.
Congratulations !
dubonnet 18 months ago | reply
amazing photography!!!
picturesofthingsilike 18 months ago | reply
Definitely one of the best macro shots I've seen!
SaLaMa.ALQUBAiSi 18 months ago | reply
WoOoW It's at the top of Beauty Shot ^_^
Lippy~Art 18 months ago | reply
Wow... that's all that describes this, just - WOW! I would love to capture images things like this one day =)
alyshathompson 18 months ago | reply
Absolutely incredible, wonderful shot!
SJH Foto 18 months ago | reply
Now that is amazing! Great shot of God's tiny creations!
calebcarson 18 months ago | reply
You photographed that thing while it was ALIVE and say that is not a GREAT photo? I wish I had your skill, and you lack of arachnophobia.
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zenman3 18 months ago | reply
If only my best shots were anywhere near as good as this awesome macro. This is years ahead of my experience. I just purchased a Cnon 100mm F2.8 and took my first spider image. I can only imagine how difficult it was to get this shot.
I saw your image on one of my contacts favourite list.
I am looking forward to getting into macro more seriously now that I am retired and have a decent lens.
(AKA Mike) 18 months ago | reply
Amazing!
dacheket 18 months ago | reply
Nice!
Nina Matthews Photography 18 months ago | reply
OMG that has to be the tiniest spider in the world , great shot
I found this on the flickr blog very coool shot
I like it such detail !!
Далеко 17 months ago | reply
Man, this is so crazy!!
e_monk 17 months ago | reply
I just saw this on wired
www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/spiders-3d-vision/?utm...
Cool.
HeavyLight.ca 17 months ago | reply
Fantastic. Saw this on Wired and had to check it out.
ACREMAR 16 months ago | reply
Superb detail :)
Mario-Cehulic 15 months ago | reply
amazing image, but what is a working distance from your subject with this setup?