Tiny, tiny snails

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Umm_fish?
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Tiny, tiny snails - Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:40 PM
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I found a bunch of tiny, tiny snail veligers on the glass today. No clue who they belong to, honestly, but they are far smaller than any I've ever seen. Compare them, for example, to the copepod naup in the far right of the photo. I thought you all might be interested.
 

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Re:Tiny, tiny snails - Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:47 PM
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Wow, those are pretty tiny! Very cool.
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Re:Tiny, tiny snails - Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:32 PM
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Cool!! 
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Re:Tiny, tiny snails - Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:45 PM
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Pretty.
 
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Re:Tiny, tiny snails - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:12 PM
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Sorry. My account got hosed somehow, but Jim was nice enough to fix me.
 
I still don't know who these belong to, but I have my eyes open. They are small enough that the whole bunch of snails looked like one dot to me on the glass. No differentiation at all until I magnified them.
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Re:Tiny, tiny snails - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 7:03 PM
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How did you take that picture?
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Re:Tiny, tiny snails - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 7:49 PM
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I use this lens:
 
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/mp-e-65.shtml
 
In fact, if you scroll down to the bottom, I also use that twin flash setup.
 
It's not the easiest lens to use. And since it's based on a 65mm platform, the focus distance to your subject is really too close. Then again, any farther away and you'd need even more light and that would suck. But this thing has made me really figure out the manual controls on the camera and really figure out what the camera software's preconceptions are and how to get around them for close-up macro photography. It's occasionally really frustrating. But lots of fun at the same time.
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"Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886