{"id":25780,"date":"2020-04-08T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=25780"},"modified":"2020-04-07T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:14:31","slug":"on-this-date-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/04\/on-this-date-15\/","title":{"rendered":"On this date 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Way back in the shady mists of time, called by some, “2013,” we have this image of an unidentified red ant species. Age has ravaged my memory now, so I cannot recall the exact circumstances, but there’s this nagging suspicion that the nights had been fairly cold when I turned over a rock in the morning and revealed a colony of rather large red ants;<\/strong> their sluggishness from the temperature allowed me to draw in very close without having to try and lock focus onto any typical antlike hyperactivity. Now, I said, “rather large,” but that’s as far as ants go in North America, which is a maximum of 10mm or so in length – much better than the tiny red ants I find sometimes, but not exactly massive either. And I must note, this is the entire frame. I believe<\/em> I was using the 45mm from the Mamiya M645 series bodies, reversed, to get this magnification, and I haven’t done that in a while, having switched over to the reversed 28-105. But that (broken) lens has a fixed aperture, and the Mamiya 45mm has an adjustable one, so perhaps I should start using it again.<\/p>\n

Below is a full-resolution crop of the same frame, to show the eye details.<\/p>\n

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At this resolution, it could perhaps be sharper, but that’s not too shabby at all, especially for a handheld shot – how often do you get to see the individual ommatidia of an ant? And while the depth of field doesn’t seem huge, it still seems better than the 28-105. I’ll have to run some tests, only not on ants, unless they’re dead. That’s not bigotry – some of my best friends are ants – it’s just a movement and frustration thing.<\/p>\n

Another, from the next year.<\/p>\n

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Nothing terribly exciting here, and no real accomplishment – I include it for the color and diversity, because the other potential images were more arthropods. But it marks one thing in particular:<\/strong> this is right after I purchased the (used) Canon 30D body, in fact the 28th frame. I have no idea how many frames it had fired off before I got it, but I’ve kept track of what I<\/em> did, at least. This body had been my workhorse camera until just three months or so back when I got the (used – I almost never buy new) Canon 7D body, but it still comes into play when I need a second camera, like when the 7D is being used for video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How much use was that, you ask?<\/p>\n

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This is also from this date, only now it’s from 2017. I said the flower above was the 28th pic;<\/strong> this was the 40,566th<\/em>. In three years. At present, I’ve shot 59,924 frames through it, but bear in mind, in there I also got a T2i body to have something that would also do video – it’s extraneous now, and may be sold soon. That<\/em> one only has 5,600 frames that I’ve run through it.<\/p>\n

While I’m at it, the top photo of the ant was done through the original grey bodied Digital Rebel<\/a>, the DReb as I call it, or the 300D as it’s known in other countries – that<\/em> reached 61,000 images before I retired it. I suppose that makes it more<\/em> of a workhorse than the 30D…<\/p>\n

One more trivial bit:<\/strong> this post from 2011<\/a> actually marks the oldest digital photos that I have from this date<\/em>, and the first time capturing newborns mantids in detail. Things change (he says tritely.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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