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wev

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I have been frustrated shooting in the dark, so I tried something tonight. I focus using the front Fn button, with my left index finger straight out supporting the lens. Tonight I taped a low power led pencil light to it and used that as a pointer to illuminate the field for focus. I used the on-board flash with a diffuser and the fstop set to compensate. A couple of a moth and a couple of spiders, one big and one very small, in the dark

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aroy

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I think the orange bugs are aphids - Full frame 105mm AIS, 0.8:1

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100% crop, I estimate these about 0.55mm long (120 pixels at 4 microns and 1.14 magnification)
 
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chippy54100

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This tiny spider with some even smaller babies. Taken with my recently bought first macro lens. The Micro nikkor 40mm 2.8.
 

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aroy

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Ant milking aphids

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Small snail about 3mm

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Small spider between 2 and 3 mm

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Big spider - filled the DX frame at 0.88:1
 
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DonK

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Bush Cricket

D3x + 105mm f2.8 Micro Nikkor + SB600

1/60th @ f8 Ambient flash
 

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aroy

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Since yesterday I have been on a spider hunt inside our house (my wife is beaming as I have discovered various nooks and crannies where our maid skimped "dusting). Today I found a few of their victims

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A small (2mm) spider caught in a bigger spider's web.

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Mosquito caught in the web. At least the spiders have done some good work.
 
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aroy

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Marilynne said:
I wouldn't get rid of that spider web. It may catch some more mosquitoes.
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That is what I keep telling my wife. Any way that is not a big problem, as the spiders are much faster in making themselves a web than the maids in clearing them.

I am also a great fan of Geckos, as they catch a lot of cockroaches.
 
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chippy54100

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I took another look at the baby spiders today. I did a shot including the end of my finger to show scale, then cropped close to show the markings starting to show on the little bodies.
 

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