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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Hacklemesh Weavers (Amaurobiidae) » Amaurobius » Amaurobius borealis
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Adult Male - Amaurobius borealis - male
Copyright © 2010 John Sloan

Adult Male - Amaurobius borealis - Male
Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada
May 1, 2010
Size: BL = 4 mm

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Contributed by John Sloan on 3 May, 2010 - 2:38am
Last updated 13 May, 2021 - 2:39pm

nice macro
How do you get such clear photos of the palps? I have a Nikon D40x with an 18-55mm lens and a 70-300mm lens. Any special settings you may suggest?
… Jace Porter, 9 October, 2012 - 8:40pm login or register to post comments

 
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Thanks! I took that picture through a 20-40X stereo microscope, by holding a point-and-shoot Kodak DX4330 camera up to one of the eyepieces. I cropped the picture to zoom in on the palp.

Many of my more recent photos were done with a better microscope, using a mounted Nikon D80.

Most of my live habitus photos (including the one of this spider), were taken with a Canon powershot SD 780 IS point-and-shoot camera on the macro setting.

The guy to ask about DSLR macros (which I know very little about) would be kyrontf, who has posted some wonderful closeup photos of live spiders. Here's his BG profile page, with a link to his pictures:

http://bugguide.net/user/view/65781
… John Sloan, 9 October, 2012 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

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