Some insect helped me to test my D800 :)

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Some insect helped me to test my D800 :)

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shineofleo

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So this could be another 'I bought a D800!' thread. But when I was busy on registering myself to the Nikon website, some insect flew into my room! :O a big big hornet or something like that!

I immediately put on 70-200 VRII but found it is not good enough, so micro nikkor 200mmF/4 it is! The bee is landing on the window, when I want to take more pictures, it accidentally fell into a transparent glass jar under it! I put some book on the top, then I take my time!

However, the jar is in round shape, and the reflection make it more difficult. Since I was eagerly registering, and so in a such hurry to play with my new camera, I took some quick picture, as uploaded here (and on my flickr).

I am sorry for the horrible reflection, but this is the best I can do. And the focal plane actually fell on the glass! Still, you can see the detail of this incredible insect!

The original size cropped to show the head.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7271/6891892082_24b5510f71_o_d.jpg

And the original resized is on my flickr. ID shineofleo. (I did not put the original file because it is not a good one!)

Any comment is welcomed and please give some hints about this amazing camera! Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
DutchNikon

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>>Any comment is welcomed<<

Cool shooting Shine :-)

Hint on Camera ( well not directly the camera) , you may need a polarizer ? :-)

Posted 1 year ago #
SkintBrit

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I'd have let him land in the camera before screwing the lens on, and battered him with my mirror at 4fps :-) I know they are all Gods creatures, but anything looking like that that comes in to my house is fair game!

Posted 1 year ago #
spraynpray

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LOL!

Posted 1 year ago #
Rx4Photo

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Looks like it's trying to communicate with you.

Posted 1 year ago #
Gareth

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i see your hornet, and raise you an asian giant hornet (that looks too small for suzumebachi)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldjapanphotos/6201752963/in/photostream/

(not my pic, they still have venom when they're dead)

you don't mess with these, I have walked through a field of them, and trust me it was nerve wracking

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Posted 1 year ago #
TheLostNinja

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Gareth said:
i see your hornet, and raise you an asian giant hornet (that looks too small for suzumebachi)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldjapanphotos/6201752963/in/photostream/

nice one! ... i also had a wasp problem last year ... but i don't think they were anywhere as big as one of those suzumebachi things!

picture of it (sorry for the bad quality, that was way before i had a D800 ;-)! ):
http://i.imgur.com/0lJyl.jpg

4 of them tried to build a nest on my office window. So i sprayed them with mukade-poison (mukade = poisonous japanese centipedes). Needed quite a bit of spraying to get them all killed which wasn't easy ... they move fast and get angry if you spray them ;-)!

Living at the edge of Osaka close to the mountains exposes one to quite a bit of nasty Japanese-insect-life. Every year i battle another pest. So far i had palm-sized hunterspiders, thousands of yasude (millipedes), mukade (centipedes), Wasps, cockroaches ... and last year i had a cooling fan in my computer stopped and to my surprise found a tiny little dead and dried up snake blocking it (probably a doku-hebi?!).

I wonder what it's going to be this year ;-)!

Posted 1 year ago #
Gareth

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lol, doku hebi in the computer!

where abouts in osaka do you live? I used to live in katano-shi (between neyagawa-shi and hirakata-shi).

I had a mukade outside my house. they can live if you chop them in half. I got out a can of fly spray and a lighter and blow torched it to death.

Posted 1 year ago #
DutchNikon

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>> Every year i battle another pest. So far i had palm-sized hunterspiders, thousands of yasude (millipedes), mukade (centipedes), Wasps, cockroaches <<

In the end the bugs&insects will win... sure of it.. ;-)

Posted 1 year ago #
El_Pickerel

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Yikes, when I think scary insect life Japan wouldn't be on the top of my mind. Maybe I should reconsider that...

Posted 1 year ago #
scoobysmak

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I went hiking last year and found a european hornets nest, needless to say I turned around. I didn't even bother to raise my camera, my nerves were more important at the time.

I would love to go to place that had these insects on display (behind like 4 layers of bullet proof glass), but if I had to go out in the wild to get them I will leave that to the professionals.

Posted 1 year ago #