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Butterfly scale 100x Mag
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Butterfly scale 100x Mag

by Gary Yeoh

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted June 21, 2011133 views5 comments
Super-macro!
This is butterfly wing magnified 100x. The wing is mounted on glass slide with mounting media and coverslip and placed under a normal light microscope. This is a 75 image stack taken at 2 micron-interval using Helicon focus. There are 2-3 layers of overlapping scales of different color. The scales when magnified has a fabric like look and composed of finer filaments and are 'clipped' to a thin sheet of membranous translucent material to form the wing. The superficial scales have serrated edge and the deeper ones rounded edge.

Magnified at this level, one lose the perspective of the naked eye level much like zooming in to the pixel level in an image. Like many things, when were really examined them in fine details, the solidity of the object dissolves.

Sony HDR camcorder mounted on microscope, F4 1/150 sec, remote. Thanks for looking and C&C appreciated

Comments

5 comments
Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on June 21, 2011 at 2:07 PM
Stunning, Stunning :eek:
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Comment posted by Fabio Giarrizzo on June 21, 2011 at 2:59 PM
Super interesting picture- My congrats for that great job, Fabio
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Comment posted by Carolyn Derstine on June 21, 2011 at 3:11 PM
Wow, impressive work, Gary--both for the work involved and the finished picture. A treat to get a look at things that we don't get to see otherwise. Thanks for sharing!
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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on June 21, 2011 at 8:47 PM
Amazing use of the technology. I spent years looking at views somewhat like this, but never succeded in recording them this well. (Ugh, just calculated that I did that 40-55 years ago!) Thanks for your dedication to pull this off.
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Comment posted by Jared Atencio on June 29, 2011 at 11:53 PM
wow, the work you put into this really paid off! Thanks for describing your technique, terrific work here.
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