FossilNerd Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 On 3/6/2020 at 3:41 PM, Bobby Rico said: Just a boost to my thread and I was wondering is there please anymore takers. I would love to see some more beautiful close ups. Cheers Bobby OK Mr. Rico, you talked me into it! Here is a close up of the internal structure of the tabulate coral Foerstephyllum vacuum. And... I promised you more Beekite pictures in a previous post, but I never delivered. My apologies. Better late than never! 3 The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted March 8, 2020 Author Share Posted March 8, 2020 23 hours ago, britishcanuk said: Here’s a little Thresher shark tooth from Kazakhstan, taken with a TG5. That’s a real Bobby dazzler. Thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted March 8, 2020 Author Share Posted March 8, 2020 19 hours ago, FossilNerd said: OK Mr. Rico, you talked me into it! Thank you my friend and Beekite is beautiful with its concentric rings. Cheers Bobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 whoo hoo! I get to join the fun! And y'alls photos are definitely spurring me to look even closer at my minis! Although it's not technically a Macro Lens, I hope I still get play. I got a Celestron Microscope with camera capture. So I"ve been having a great time taking photos of my little stuff. It only has a 5 MP so it's not super great, but for the price, it was the best option for me. Still working on getting the best shots, but here are some echinoderms that I finally got decent shots of: Hyposalenia phillipsae 1/4 inch Leptosalenia mexicana 3/8 inch Pygopyrina hncockensis 1 inch and a tiny little crinoid isocrinus 1/8 inch And a pretty little pyrite covered oyster Illymatogyra which is 1/2 inch 5 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 I also started out with one of those Celestron "digital microscopes". I was unimpressed by the depth of field and any controls for stopping down the lens to try to increase it. I have found focus stacking software to be a real boon to highly magnified macro photography. I use a commercial grade program called Helicon Focus which is a bit expensive (more than the Celestron ) but it works well (and quickly). I do believe there are a variety of shareware (free) focus stacking programs out on the inter-webber-net if you do a bit of searching (I have not) which may prove valuable. The basic idea is that you take a series of photo captures adjusting the camera height so that different parts of the magnified image are in focus. You then feed this stack of photos to the software and it combines these into a single hyper-focused image. There may be some advanced math algorithms involved but I'm pretty sure it's actually Hogwartsian magic at it's core. Good fun to play with while trying to produce well focused images of tiny things. Cheers. -Ken 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted March 10, 2020 Author Share Posted March 10, 2020 23 hours ago, JamieLynn said: whoo hoo! I get to join the fun! And y'alls photos are definitely spurring me to look even closer at my minis! Although it's not technically a Macro Lens, I hope I still get play. I got a Celestron Microscope with camera capture. So I"ve been having a great time taking photos of my little stuff. It only has a 5 MP so it's not super great, but for the price, it was the best option for me. Still working on getting the best shots, but here are some echinoderms that I finally got decent shots of: Hyposalenia phillipsae 1/4 inch Really cool photos and the pyrite oyster is a beautiful fossil. You definitely added to the fun so thank you very much and feel free to post anymore of your images. cheers Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omnomosaurus Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 New li'l Bettonilithus Chamberlani trilobite from Mid Wales, UK. 7mm: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted March 13, 2020 Author Share Posted March 13, 2020 46 minutes ago, Omnomosaurus said: Bettonilithus Chamberlani trilobite from Mid Wales, UK. Very nice find. I have a few Welsh bugs I found in my collection. Thanks for adding to my thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntonia Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Omnomosaurus said: New li'l Bettonilithus Chamberlani trilobite from Mid Wales, UK. 7mm: What a cool little bug, I'd hate to be the person who has to look through mountains of shale to find these little guys! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 5 hours ago, Omnomosaurus said: New li'l Bettonilithus Chamberlani trilobite from Mid Wales, UK. 7mm: Bettonolithus chamberlaini does not have eyes and the pygidium has weak ribs and should be approximately 2.75 times wide as long. The anteriorly expanding glabella and overall morphology compares it more favorably with an asaphid genus like a sub-adult Ogyginus. Hughes, C.P. 1971 The Ordovician Trilobite Faunas of the Builth-Llandrindod Inlier, Central Wales. Part II. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology Series, 20(4):115-182 LINK 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omnomosaurus Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 4 hours ago, Bobby Rico said: Very nice find. I have a few Welsh bugs I found in my collection. Thanks for adding to my thread. They are interesting little things (and I wonder how many are hiding on people's roofs, considering how popular Welsh slate is in the UK). And thanks for keeping this fantastic topic going, Bobby! 4 hours ago, Huntonia said: What a cool little bug, I'd hate to be the person who has to look through mountains of shale to find these little guys! Haha yeah, I shudder at the thought of having to sift through any of it for more than a couple of hours on a dry afternoon! 2 minutes ago, piranha said: Bettonolithus chamberlaini does not have eyes and the pygidium has weak ribs and should be approximately 2.75 times wide as long. The anteriorly expanding glabella and overall morphology compares it more favorably with an asaphid genus like a sub-adult Ogyginus. Hughes, C.P. 1971 The Ordovician Trilobite Faunas of the Builth-Llandrindod Inlier, Central Wales. Part II. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology Series, 20(4):115-182 LINK Thank you for that, Piranha! I'm lost with identifying most non-dinosaurian fossils and struggled to find in depth diagnostics with pictures for various trilobite species to compare; Bettonothilus was the closest match I dug up from rather sparce written descriptions. I'll happily label the little bugger a Ogyginus sp. now though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 A close up from a crinoid collected one month ago... those are rare in Cabo carvoeiro Fm, 2 member. I hope you like it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Beautiful! Looks like a tiny cookie (though likely rather stale and tasteless). Cheers. -Ken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted March 21, 2020 Author Share Posted March 21, 2020 1 hour ago, ricardo said: close up from a crinoid collected one month ago... those are rare in Cabo carvoeiro Fm, 2 member. I hope you like it. Very nice I may stay a little collection myself. Thanks for adding to my thread . Cheers Bobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Very nice I may stay a little collection myself. Thanks for adding to my thread You're welcome! Another adding to your thread... ganoin. Cheers, Ricardo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 2 hours ago, digit said: Beautiful! Looks like a tiny cookie Thank you for taking a look at gingerbread cookies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 On 21/03/2020 at 3:08 PM, ricardo said: Another adding to your thread... ganoin That is very cool. Thanks for adding here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Saunders Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Nikon digital on microscope 100X plus some camera zoom in. Two different tiny fossil plates with Bryozoans 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Saunders Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 1 inch or 2.54 cm West Michigan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Some bryozoans from St. Leon, Late Ordovician : 2 cm from base to far tip. And the field of view here is 2.5 cm from left to right : 3 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 See the photo in large size please... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Not a photograph, but I thought I'd share this SEM I took recently of a Silurian chitinozoan, possibly Conochitina sp. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Added a new life form to my understanding-- chitinozoan! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitinozoan I do enjoy my envelope being pushed. Cheers. -Ken 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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