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Zoropsis spinimana male

When I hear my wife screaming in the kitchen.......well I quickly come back with my camera to be able to shoot the "monster" which terrifies my wife. She is no longer afraid of jumping spiders, but the "big" Zoropsis spinimana like this beautiful little male of barely 2cm still scare her.
Photos made with my [HASH=2663]#Olympus[/HASH] OM-D e-m10 III, my [HASH=2664]#Laowa[/HASH] 50mm supermacro lens, my [HASH=2665]#Meike[/HASH] MK320 flash with homemade curved diffuser.
ISO 200, F/8, 1/200s. This is a focus stacking of 3 handheld shots.
Photo made at home (on my hand) in the southwest of France.
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I'm a French macrophotographer. I started practicing macrophotography in 2015 with a Nikon D3200 and the kit lens 18-55 reversed. After a year of practicing I bought a Sigma 105 mm lens and I use it with a Raynox DCR 250. One year later I...
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Desc1234

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Completely agree with you, autofocus and stabilization are useless for me too.
Yes, good point on IS - it may stabilize your movement, but it's enough if there's a slight wind blowing (about 90% of the time) and you're out. My canon 100 2.8L gives 3EV stabilization, but try to shoot a subject at 25th/sec with the slightest wind or subject movement...
 

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I've tried IS on my past Sigma 105mm but the result was that the IS give me shaking effect with a big loss of sharpness. I've no problem with my 3 last lenses because they haven't got IS....lol
 
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Thank you for the tip:) It would be great not to have to drop 1200 EUR on an MPE 65...
I've made this one, which still be my favourite photo since my beginning, with a 18-55 reversed lens on a Nikon D3200 with internal flash an plastic diffuser clipsed on the front of the lens.
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This one is really cute MinitecaPhotographie MinitecaPhotographie . This spider seems to be very innocent . You can create an other thread showcasing it , I can feature it on homepage ;)
 

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