Photo credit: Dr. Eugenijus Kavaliauskas | Nikon Small World
Building a giant Nikon lens-shaped house is one thing, this extreme close-up of an ant’s face by Dr. Eugenijus Kavaliauskas is another. It won an ‘Image of Distinction’ award in Nikon’s 2022 Photomicrography Competition and captured using a 5x (objective lens magnification) lens with the reflected light technique.
Sometimes photographers utilize both the reflected and transmitted light sources combined to photograph a particular specimen in a manner that most effectively reveals the features of interest. In this case, it would be the ant’s facial features, and let’s just say that this portrait would not look out of place in a future horror movie.
- 16 megapixel 1/2.3 inches BSI CMOS sensor
- Nikkor f/3.0 6.5 millimeter ED lens
- 22.5 900 millimeter (35 millimeter equivalent)
Stereomicroscopes are often utilized to examine specimens under both reflected (episcopic) and transmitted (diascopic) illumination schemes, employing a variety of light sources and configurations, which are strategically positioned in the appropriate locations,” said Nikon.
