Specimen Holder
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Can you please give some more inputs on that specific image where you have placed multiple sheets as diffusers and then a plastic tube type on the lens? How do you determine how many papers/sheets to use?Yawns wrote:I use a stage rather than a flexible arm .. I find it easier this way .. very easy to place a background...
the stage allows me to lay several diffusers very easy
for a specimen holder I use a ping-pong ball, cut in 2 halves, filled with plasticine (to make it heavy) and taped back to original position ... the ball over a metal ring ... this is a very chaeap way to have tilt and rotation virtually in any direction and makes tunning the insect positioning very easy
Thanks
Thanks for this ping pong design I changed the interior to an old mouse ball, its heavy and being round it's always kept at the bottom.Yawns wrote:
for a specimen holder I use a ping-pong ball, cut in 2 halves, filled with plasticine (to make it heavy) and taped back to original position ... the ball over a metal ring ... this is a very chaeap way to have tilt and rotation virtually in any direction and makes tunning the insect positioning very easy
I pierced the ball with a needle, covered the interior with some tape and hold it with some blue thing used to hold posters in the walls ( blutack )
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Posing
I use pipe cleaners with either a pin or a small alligator clip on the end.
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Re: Posing
I've tried using stiff single conductor electrical wire with an alligator clip crimped on the end. It still vibrates a bit. It'd probably be ok for 1:1 or lesser magnifications.Olympusman wrote:I use pipe cleaners with either a pin or a small alligator clip on the end.
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kutilka » 04 zář 2015, 07:42
kutilka » 04 zář 2015, 07:42
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This unfortunately requires registration... in Czech.kutilka wrote:http://www.entoforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f ... %8D#p82174
kutilka » 04 zář 2015, 07:42
same principle as my universal stage - http://extreme-macro.co.uk/universal-stage/
My extreme-macro.co.uk site, a learning site. Your comments and input there would be gratefully appreciated.