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Sorry I'm late to the party. Life intervened.
This is Catoxantha opulenta from Malaysia. The head capsule width, from the posterior margin of one compound eye to the other, is about 7.5 mm. The photo was captured with an old (1970s), El Nikkor 50mm enlarger lens reverse mounted on a Nikon PB-4 bellows with the necessary adapter rings and a 12mm extension tube (for mounting the camera body to the bellows). The bellows was nearly at minimum expansion-- just the various fitting rings and about 2 cm of bellows extension gave me the subject size I was looking for.
This is a focus stacked image. I used 546 photos at 5.0 µm steps with a WeMacro electronic focusing rail, 1/5s, f5.6, ISO 125, studio lighting, then stacked them with Zerene Stacker. I used Photoshop to adjust the stacked image, mostly noise removal, sharpening, and brightness/contrast adjustments (Topaz Photo AI, Nik Viveza, and Nik Color Effects Pro plugins). I do not do any of those adjustments in camera, so I start with the plain, default raw sensor data.
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