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Thursday 13 October 2016

New camera, new lens

Yesterday I eventually got around to buying a new camera body, a Nikon D300 along with a 70mm macro lens for insect photography.
In the trap last night were:
2 barred sallow
Large yellow underwing
Blastobasis lacticolella
Black rustic
Chestnut
Beaded chestnut
Suspected Plutella species, maybe strangely marked P. xylostella. Edit: Now confirmed as a Plutella xylostella with unusual but not unique markings.

The macro lens is going to take some getting used to, as are all the settings on the camera. These are my first efforts from this morning in very grey light.
Barred sallow

Barred sallow macro close up

Black rustic

Chestnut

Blastobasis lacticolella

Plutella xylostella

Messed around with the light to highlight pattern on wings

Unusually marked P. xylostella


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