Giant Flies!

[alice_]

I found a dead fly in my room today. Did I throw it away? No! I put it onto the scanner and this happened (click for full size):

http://paper-pushers.com/alice/images/ca/fly01small.jpg (http://paper-pushers.com/alice/images/ca/fly01large.jpg)

http://paper-pushers.com/alice/images/ca/fly02small.jpg (http://paper-pushers.com/alice/images/ca/fly02large.jpg)

http://paper-pushers.com/alice/images/ca/fly03small.jpg (http://paper-pushers.com/alice/images/ca/fly03large.jpg)

Feel free to use to use these for whatever nefarious purpose you can dream up - photomanip, reference, freaking out siblings, whatever. CC license forever.

Technical details: 2400dpi. The fly really wasn't giant at all.

[Norwin]

I have better results with my camera plus reversed lens :bashful:

[alice_]

yes that is much better... can even see tiny droplets of water!

I think maybe your technology is better than mine (I don't even know what a reversed lens is!)

Do you have any more dead insects lying around? I'd be interested to see them.

[Rhynome]

That has to be one of the most artsy looking uses for a scanner that I've seen so far (though there's this Russian thing "Face your Pockets", that's quite good, but I won't go into it now). Though yeah, Norwin wins this round.

You got a camera? You gonna enter into the photochallenge?

[Leukeh]

yes that is much better... can even see tiny droplets of water!

I think maybe your technology is better than mine (I don't even know what a reversed lens is!)

Do you have any more dead insects lying around? I'd be interested to see them.

A reversed lens is just when you take your lens off and turn it around so what would normally be attached to the camera is facing outwards! Simple way of getting macro shots without a macro lens or extension tubes =P None of the lens info about the shot is recorded though, obviously...