This morning I was looking at a couple of macro sites and I stumbled
into a reference to "Third Hand Tools." I googled that and found this thing:
http://www.harborfreight.com/helping-hands-319.html
Wow! I visited the local Harbor Freight store and picked up one of those
and also a small and lightweight clamp - total expenditure of $7 that
gets me this (I removed the magnifying glass):
http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/helping-hand-tool?blog=9
Up till now I have positioned subjects by mounting them on pins,
grabbing the pin in a clamp, and then (don't laugh) using a shim to push
the subject up to the desired height. With tolerances for framing using
being about 1mm or less, this was an exceptionally tedious process and I
often spent 20 or 30 minutes positioning the subject. This contraption
lets me get there in a second or two. Wow!
The cicada in the photo should appear in a peso soon - I found it
buzzing around on the pavement by my house. It did not successfully
complete metamorphosis and one wing was stuck to the shell of its former
being which rendered it unable to move other than to thrash on the
pavement. I grabbed it before my cat got it, depriving him of a tasty
breakfast.
Mark
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