I am shit at recording video´s
I made this!
Whilst playing with a macro extensiontube on a dSLR I decided to attempt to do some filming to see if that would work. As you can see, I am crap at filming and cheap extention tubes deliver a shitty image. However, I did notice some tiny insect appearing to crawl from under a snail´s shell, wander about on the snail and then retreat under the shell. has anyone any idea what this insect is?
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Tusk knows where you live, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 22:15,
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Arrrgh
You made me google parasites. Euurgh, I am so itchy right now.
No idea, but reminded me of the blue squelchy things from trap door.. Creepy, crawly, slimy things, that stick on to your skin... Horrid beasts with tentacles, that want to pull you in... Squirmy worms, slugs and snails, that rot there in a goo... They'll wait down there forever, 'till they get their hands on you... Don't you open that trapdoor, You're a fool if you dare
You need a nice little gorilla pod or similar, or post-prod image stabilisation for these shots.
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zacherynuk @echo off, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 22:21,
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i reckon it's a mite
www.petsnails.co.uk/problems/mites.html#start
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rob, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 22:21,
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I reckon you could be right.
I had no idea the buggers moved that fast. My garden must be overrun by the bastards, two days ago I found one on the back of a bumblebee.
www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#view=photo&position=1&with_photo_id=74947897&order=date_desc&user=3513735
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Tusk knows where you live, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 22:35,
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You found a snail on a bee?!
Flybe.com!
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 22:42,
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I reckon you got great eye-SIGHT
(anybody want a peanut?)
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zacherynuk @echo off, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 22:46,
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If you zoom in even closer there's another even tinier one on that guys back too
Probably.
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..wil, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 22:22,
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if you use canon
then for DOF you might want to look into the DOF preview trick.
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wjh31, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 22:39,
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Try posting it here:
www.ispot.org.uk/
Some knowledgable folk on there will give you an answer I expect. Could be any sort of invertebrate, may not be snail specific but maybe soil-living, and just happens to be on the snail. Well spotted though. Looks like your extension tubes have given you a very shallow depth of field, so makes the focussing difficult.
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Varmint, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 22:41,
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Ta for the link
I´ll see if I can extract a frame from the original footage.
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Tusk knows where you live, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 23:05,
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I used to film a lot of snails and slugs.
weird I know, but if you speed up the film it's pretty cool. Grab a bunch of the together in a pile, film it and speed it up.
And no, it's not slug porn.
Perverts!
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I only filmed the snail
because it was the only object moving slow enough for my shitty skills.
They do look pretty cool close up, mind.
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Tusk knows where you live, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 0:09,
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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 8 Jul 2012, 23:56,
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