Chip Photography

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Was browsing the Internet and came across this:-

http://www.kirktuck.com/Fun%20with%20Technology.html

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It's interesting to see the different approaches that people take to solving similar problems. The fellow who wrote that page is shooting microchips at 10X. He wrestled with trying to get stuff sufficiently parallel lest DOF soften his images, switched from tungsten lighting to flash to solve vibration problems, then struggled with how to position lights he couldn't really see, until finally he settled in on Nikon's iTTL units that use the same flashtubes to provide low intensity modeling and high intensity flash illumination. Obviously his approach works really well -- his pictures are gorgeous!

Meanwhile, folks here at photomacrography2.net are shooting micro-bugs at the same magnification, attacking the DOF problem with stacking software, vibration with isolation and stiffening, and preferring to use tungsten/halogen lighting because it makes modeling so much simpler. A very different approach that also seems to work really well.

It's always interesting to me, to see how widely different approaches sometimes get optimized to very similar levels of performance.

Among entomologists, the dragonfly is generally considered to have a "primitive" flight control system, while the true flies are much more advanced and sophisticated.

But I notice that nobody bets on the fly winning the aerial combat. :-k

--Rik

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