Salticidae

[einman]

Well while re-organizing my lab into stations I found this little guy. He was already dead. Starvation I would imagine. Took a quick shot using the Nikon SMZ-U. No stacking or adjustments just a single shot. Not sure of the species. This is 15X

[rnabholz]

Poor fellow, at least you immortalized him.

Those eyes never cease to amaze.

Cool find and shoot

[spectrographic_uk]

Wow! Incredible detail!

Agree with rnabholz, the eyes look fantastic!

[Manfred]

Ich denke, in diesem Fall wirkt ein single shot besser als ein aufwendiger stack. Bildwichtige Details (wie die Augen) sind scharf, dass reicht, für mich
ein schönes Bild.

[einman]

Thanks everyone. My camera is not parfocal with the eyepieces so sometimes the shots are a bit out of focus. Jumping spiders are incredibly fascinating.

[einman]

Ich denke, in diesem Fall wirkt ein single shot besser als ein aufwendiger stack. Bildwichtige Details (wie die Augen) sind scharf, dass reicht, für mich
ein schönes Bild.

Thanks Manfred. I agree single shots without stacking serve to demonstrate the capability of the scope and thus are preferred at times. Originally this particular scope utilized a projector "eyepiece" but I eliminated it for a simpler set-up.

[Rodney]

poor pitiful spider, looks like that one could have made a good friend, lol.
nice single photo.
rodney

[Dale]

How did you organize? I have the 3 basic scopes, with 8' of desk space. Other than by
weight or price I can't find any reasons for which one goes where.
Dale

[einman]

How did you organize? I have the 3 basic scopes, with 8' of desk space. Other than by
weight or price I can't find any reasons for which one goes where.
Dale

I have 4 4 ft benches. One has the Nikon SMZ-U Stereoscope and a set-up for the camera/objective photos, another has the Leitz Diaplan compound scope. The third has the Olympus IMT inverted and the last is open for whatever. The scopes not being used are stored on metal shelves. I use the inverted the least so that bench also has various mixers, scales etc.

[Dale]

Thank you.
Dale

[billben74]

The hunting spiders and their binocular vision apparatus really grabs your attention.
Nice pic.

[Radazz]

Jumpers are my favorite as well.

[gekko]

Beautiful! I agree, jumping spider (going on a limb: possibly Metaphid Jumping Spider, Phidippus clarus?)

[einman]

Beautiful! I agree, jumping spider (going on a limb: possibly Metaphid Jumping Spider, Phidippus clarus?)

No I don't think so. it has an obvious design orangish curved line on the cephlathorax (cephalic region) that sp p.clarius does not have.
Here is another shotit is blurred a bit. The eyepieces and camera are not parfocal.

[einman]

Actually I should have taken a full body shot but the eyes are always so interesting.

[einman]

Here are 2 more shots. Not quite as good in terms of color/contrast because I used the ring lighting but you can see the features from a top view and one closer of the abdomen.

Ring Light illumination

Dual Pipe

Ring Light abdomen


Depth of Focus starts to show up in the second photo. Dual pipe lighting is much better for giving better DOF as well as color and contrast. It also helps I have a daylight filter on the dual pipe illuminator.

Stacking fixes the DOF issues. None of these are stacked etc. I hope to begin some serious photography this winter.