Water snail feeding from the water surface of my pond tank

[MicroBob]

Hi together,

in my pond tank of 30 litres there are some water snails as biggest inhabitants.
Yesterday I saw one feeding from the water surface and made a video with a stereo microscope minus stand and my Nikon 1J5 free hand.

VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/266378480

Bob

[charlie g]

Beautiful music with the video. It seems difficult to 'free hand hold' a camera+a microscope..it is great you were able to do this...and focus at same time.

I have a 'form of life' patiently growing in three areas of a deep freshwater tank we have. I'm not sure if it is a form of sponge...I need to start the investigation soon.

Danke, microbob! Charlie guevara

[coominya]

Good one bob. does the camera have a macro setting or macro lens?

Check out these furry little guys.
http://tomstirrphotography.com/photogra ... nikon-1-j5

[Hobbyst46]

Hi Bob
A beautiful nature video clip and well matched music!

[MicroBob]

I can show a picture of the setup I grabbed for this video tomorrow.

My experience with cutting videos is very limited, only the couple I showed here.
I asked two colleagues what software to use and followed their recommendation to buy Magix, the medium version. Mine is an older version from 2016 and has cost about 20€ or so. It works vey well for me though I skipped the manual completely.
The music is generated by a music generator. It resembles a CAD software with its different layers that form the final video.

[ImperatorRex]

Hello Bob, yes please share a photo of the setup. I like the video very much.

[MicroBob]

Here are two images of my pond tank and the setup I used for the video: