Hi Craig, I did create the scripts myself, but had some help from the adobe scripting forum from time to time. Both of the scripts I mentioned will run on CS2. Elements does not support scripting, as far as I know. The text only script just uses the normal CS2 text engine to create a line of pre-det...

Hi Craig, What software do you have available. It's difficult to advise you without knowing which programs you use. If you use Photoshop, I have a couple of scripts which might help. Here's an example of what one of them can do. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/7_LogoScript_2.jpg The sc...

Hi Rik, That's some great information you have collated on this subject. I've been keeping my eye out for 160/- objectives, but there have not been many outside of North America. Usually the postage makes buying them from there uneconomical. I'm determined to find a microscope objective which will p...

Hi ken, Your information sounds plausible. I never really thought of something as delicate in appearance as a Lacewing having a strategy for getting out of spider webs. I assumed that the large wing area, relative to body mass, would have meant it would be permanently trapped. :? I wonder how W. Mit...

Hi all, Here is an image of a small area of wing from the same Lacewing that I posted a head shot of the other day. There are two wings, one on top of the other in this image. The field of view is about 2.5mm wide. Does anyone know why some insects have so many hairs in places you might not expect t...

Hi Irwin, Wonderful stack. How dow you like using your enlargfer lens? Irwin I don't really think too much about it. :) The main reason I use this particular lens is that it produces very good optical results at these magnificatons. I have other lenses which I use in different circumstances. Bye for...

Hi, Super stack George. Beautiful subject also. Any way you can link to a full size pic....I must have this a a desktop wallpaper..." PRETTY PLEASE" :wink: If you send me your email address by private message I'll email you a copy. Let me know you screen resolution so that I can size it correctly. B...

Hi Dave,

DaveW wrote:To paraphrase, the "eyes have it" George. Great picture!

DaveW

Thanks, Dave.

They are a bit on the prominent side.

Bye for now.

Hi all, Here's a stacked image of a Lacewing I found in my kitchen this morning. Not sure exactly which kind it is, but probably a Green Lacewing, Chrysopidae Chrysoperla carnea, in winter colour. The field of view is about 2.5 mm wide. Seems to have some sort of deformity in the base of the left an...

Hi Rik, George, This is looking much better. I downloaded the full-size image. Particularly at image center, it shows fine surface detail that gets noticeably fuzzier if shrunk to 50% (1936x1296, for your camera). This seems not much different from what I get. Thanks for the advice. I'll need to get...

Hi again Rik, Here is a new stack that I did today. Again it is a full frame image from the D200. The field of view is about 2.5mm. The stack is made from 25 frames with a 0.02mm focus adjustment between frames. The image is straight from Helicon Focus, with the only thing done to the image is to re...

Hi Rik, Any chance you can post out a full-size image and link to it? Just to check, do I have it right that these are with your Nikon D200, sensor size 23.6 x 15.8 mm? --Rik Thanks for the points you raise. I don't have the original RAW files for these images, and I don't have a full size image of ...

Hi Rik, What is the make/model/designation of the microscope and lens? Can you post out some of the results so we can perhaps diagnose what went wrong? --Rik I think the scope is some sort of re-badged generic tri-noc compound, named Apex-Researcher . It's sold on ebay by Brunel Microscopes under th...

Hi Dave, George, My mention of an extension tube was for a reversed lens. Thinking about it further though I think the aperture is closed down by a rod or pin from the camera so unless you used an auto tube you probably would not be able to devise anything to fool this mechanism and stop the lens do...

Hi Rik, Well, maybe I'm just blissfully naive, but I'm under the impression that appropriate extension tubes and teleconverters will pass through the required electronic signals. I tried the lens with Nikon's own "Auto Extension PK Series Tubes", but it appears that you only get diaphragm control wi...