DIGITALLY IMAGING PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA (or other small, less interesting, insects)

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Here is what was used for this project:

Light:
At least one halogen light source (box to fibre optic setup).
 Software:
AutoMontage 4.0
Photoshop 6.0
Microscope:
Leica MZ Apo
Planapo 1.0x
Insect:
A point mounted Entomacis sp. (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae), roughly 2mm long.
Camera:
ProgRes 3008 camera
 
Computer:
Dell Precision 410, Dual PentiumII 350 processors
Windows NT
256 Megs Ram
19" Trinitron monitor


equipment
Other:
  1.  Various pins of differents shapes.
  2. Rubber tubing to be used as bases for mounting.
  3. Small cork to be used as bases for mounting.
  4. Clay, to fix bases to stage or to position parts.
  5. Mylar cylindar.  
  6. Bright white paper insert for mylar cylindar.
  7. Colored felt for quick temporary backgrounds.
  8. Various paper/mylar combinations.
  9. Specimen manipulator.
  10. Misc. paper/mylar for custom positions.
  11. Another Mylar screen for custum positions, hot glued onto a glass slide.Mylar cylinder around 4-5 cm in diameter, and 4-5cm tall, half the cylinder backed internally with super bright white photo paper*

desk The desk setup looks like this.




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