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Springtail from the allotment TQ 40104 68783

Dicyrtomina saundersi I believe.

The real size is 1.61 mm, magnification is 4.62
IMG_2330_Springtailv2 by davholla2002, on Flickr

I think a moth fly on a bramble leaf Grid ref TQ 40100 68716
The real size is 1.61 mm, magnification is 4.619
IMG_2356_Flyv2 by davholla2002, on Flickr
Beetle larva from under a piece of wood TQ 40104 68783
The real size is 4.04 mm, magnification is 2.8
IMG_2551_Beetle_larvav2 by davholla2002, on Flickr

Leafhopper I think on a bramble leaf
TQ 40104 68783
The real size is 3.27 mm, magnification is 4.2

IMG_2464_Leafhopperv2 by davholla2002, on Flickr

Millipede TQ 42847 70813 on a wall
I could not really measure this so I measured between the 2 eyes.
It was 0.28 mm, magnification is 4.19

IMG_2426_Millipedev2 by davholla2002, on Flickr
 
Thanks the MPE65 - when the flash and it is support are working - is coupled with a teleconverter so can in theory get to 7x but I think 6 is the most I have done.
Obviously at the moment I have a problem with the flash.
 
davholla said:
Thanks the MPE65 - when the flash and it is support are working - is coupled with a teleconverter so can in theory get to 7x but I think 6 is the most I have done.
Obviously at the moment I have a problem with the flash.
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7x, that's a scene width of around 3mm on your 40D. That's small. I've found that 8X on full frame (same 4.5mm scene width as 5X on your 40D with no teleconverter) is about as small as I can handle hand-held out in the field.

Have you got focus peaking on the 40D? If not that must make it even more challenging with your small subjects.
 
GardenersHelper said:
7x, that's a scene width of around 3mm on your 40D. That's small. I've found that 8X on full frame (same 4.5mm scene width as 5X on your 40D with no teleconverter) is about as small as I can handle hand-held out in the field.

Have you got focus peaking on the 40D? If not that must make it even more challenging with your small subjects.
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No I don't have it. The main problems with small things are
a) light (it is a dark scence)
b) finding them - as you said the scene width is small - if they are on a piece of newspaper I can use the text to find them but if on a piece of wood much harder
c) Focus peaking would be good but I am not really photographing things that have to be photographed (if I mess up it doesn't matter, in terms of missing a vitally important) apart from a springtail in Colombia and an introduced harvestman - everything I photograph has been photographed by others many times before.
 
davholla said:
No I don't have it. The main problems with small things are
a) light (it is a dark scence)
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Are you using the optical viewfinder?
davholla said:
b) finding them - as you said the scene width is small - if they are on a piece of newspaper I can use the text to find them but if on a piece of wood much harder
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Tell me about it!!!!!!! It can be very, very frustrating. All too often with small subjects the subject is gone before I can find it, especially if it is moving around the whole time.
davholla said:
c) Focus peaking would be good but I am not really photographing things that have to be photographed (if I mess up it doesn't matter, in terms of missing a vitally important) apart from a springtail in Colombia and an introduced harvestman - everything I photograph has been photographed by others many times before.
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Focus peaking is the main reason I use the Sony full frames. My Canon 70D doesn't have it and some of my Panasonic MFTs do, but it doesn't work as well as with the Sony cameras. It doesn't work all the time with the Sony cameras, but it works enough to be very useful.

With the same lens arrangement on MFT I could get from infinity focus down to 2.2mm scene width. But that is probably too small for me to handle and the working distances would be even worse (as in being too big for effective flash use) for larger scenes around 1 inch wide or wider. It is already an issue with the Sony setups. That said, I feel another experiment coming on!
 
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