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Critters for crituque.....and ID if anyone can oblige All taken with the 60mm micro and R1C1.





I know this one is a fly, but can anyone narrow it down a bit more!

Number 3 is a great shot of a Snail Parasite Blowfly. It's sometimes also called a Bluebottle.


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#1 is a wingless wasp
#2 is some kind of shield bug i guess

The first is a great shot. I agree it is a flightless female wasp waiting for a mate.

The second is one of the leaf eating beetles by the looks, wrong mouthparts for a bug.

The fly seems to be suffering from lack of depth or a focus issue as the eye is not quite there.

How are you finding the 60? I have not really put mine to it as yet.

I agree with Colin on the IDs.

The first image is superb. It is nice and sharp where it needs to be. It could probably do with a little bit of lightening in the shadows.

The second image is OK, but there's a certainly lack of sharpness, like movement or something. Perhaps it is diffraction, I'm not sure.

The third images is pretty good but as Colin says, there's not enough DOF.

colin_12 wrote:The first is a great shot. I agree it is a flightless female wasp waiting for a mate.

The second is one of the leaf eating beetles by the looks, wrong mouthparts for a bug.

The fly seems to be suffering from lack of depth or a focus issue as the eye is not quite there.

How are you finding the 60? I have not really put mine to it as yet.

Thanks all for the ID's and feedback. Yep agree the DOF on both the Leaf eating beetle and the fly are not quite there.

All shots were handheld and I was trying to hold my breath while composing & manual focusing on the critters. The fact I have not nailed the focus is more than likely due to poor technique on my part and quite probably movement during capture. I need to practice some more, a lot more.

The wasp was shot at f25, the beetle at f14 and the fly at f8. f16 and smaller is probably pushing it with macros of this type?

I have the old 60mm D not the newer AFS version, It is a very sharp lens once you get the DOF right focus is slow and it does tend to hunt a bit. I use it as my go to portrait lens most of the time.

Geoff M wrote:All shots were handheld and I was trying to hold my breath while composing & manual focusing on the critters. The fact I have not nailed the focus is more than likely due to poor technique on my part and quite probably movement during capture. I need to practice some more, a lot more.

I strongly recommend using a monopod or at least leaning the camera against something firm. It cam make a huge difference on nailing focus.

Geoff M wrote:I have the old 60mm D not the newer AFS version, It is a very sharp lens once you get the DOF right focus is slow and it does tend to hunt a bit. I use it as my go to portrait lens most of the time.

I have this lens and it is a great lens. I rarely shoot macro at any aperture larger than f/16. I usually go for f/22 and even f/32 (and sometimes even smaller than that).

They are very good! I'm jealous!