Starter Kit Shutter Cables
$30.00 – $170.00Need an extra shutter cable?
Motion Control Service and Repair
$119.00If a hardware component of the Macropod product line is in need of repair and out of warranty, please purchase a repair request and send your part to:
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Attn: Imaging Services
222 Pitkin St
East Hartford CT 06108
The total cost covers component repair, testing, cleaning and return postage.
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Slide Stage compatible with X, Y Rack-Pinion and Universal Mount
$79.00Add item to the cart to purchase.
Turtledove Diffusers: Godox MF12 Wireless Flash (Set of 2)
$79.00|
This diffuser is custom designed for the Godox MF12 Twin Lite Macro Flash. The inner deflector reflects light onto the conical structure of the diffuser. This section projects soft light onto your subject without losing too much light form the source. These diffusers are a must have for any photographer working with the MF12 Flash by Godox! These dual diffusers no longer warm the subject and cast a brighter, more lively look onto your subject. Phew!! A rigid macro diffuser that withstands heavy field use. Mirror tests shown below indicate the level of diffusion offered by the Turtledove Diffusers. Flash and camera settings are at Flash 1/32, EXP 1/200, f4.0, and ISO 200. |
Turtledove Diffusers: MT-26EX-RT Twin Lite Flash
$79.00This diffuser is custom designed for the Canon MT-26EX-RT Twin Lite Macro Flash. The inner deflector reflects light onto the conical structure of the diffuser. This section projects soft light onto your subject without losing too much light form the source. These diffusers are a must have for any photographer working with the MT-26EX-RT Flash by Canon!
These dual diffusers no longer warm the subject and cast a brighter, more lively look onto your subject. Phew!! A rigid macro diffuser that works well in heavy field use.
Mirror tests shown below indicate the level of diffusion offered by the Turtledove Diffusers. Flash and camera settings are at Flash 1/32, EXP 1/200, f4.0, and ISO 200.
Turtledove Diffusers: Yongnuo YN-24EX TTL Macro Flash
$79.00This diffuser is custom designed for the Yongnuo YN-24EX TTL Twin Lite Macro Flash. The inner deflector reflects light onto the conical structure of the diffuser. This section projects soft light onto your subject without losing too much light form the source. These diffusers are a must have for any photographer working with the YN-24EX TTL Flash by Yongnuo!
These dual diffusers no longer warm the subject and cast a brighter, more lively look onto your subject. Phew!! A rigid macro diffuser to withstand heavy field use.
Mirror tests shown below indicate the level of diffusion offered by the Turtledove Diffusers. Flash and camera settings are at Flash 1/32, EXP 1/200, f4.0, and ISO 200.
Turtledove Diffusers: Canon MT-24 EX Twin Lite Flash
$79.00This diffuser is custom designed for the Canon MT-24EX Twin Lite Macro Flash. The inner deflector reflects light onto the conical structure of the diffuser. This section projects soft light onto your subject without losing too much light form the source. These diffusers are a must have for any photographer working with the MT-24 EX Flash by Canon!
NOTE* This older diffuser shown in the video below created a slight warming effect and a manual color temperature of ~5000 K needed to be used to mitigate. These dual diffusers no longer warm the subject and cast a brighter, more lively look onto your subject. Phew!! A rigid macro diffuser to withstand all heavy field use.
Mirror tests shown below indicate the level of diffusion offered by the Turtledove Diffusers. Flash and camera settings are at Flash 1/32, EXP 1/200, f4.0, and ISO 200.
Corylus americana, Leaf Texture from Fenton River
$59.00Corylus americana, the American Hazelnut, is a species of the genus Corylus that is native to eastern North America. It is a medium to large shrub that under some conditions can take the form of a small tree.
Internal Mold of a Turretellid Gastropod: Fossil
$59.00The Gastropoda or gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large taxonomic class within the phylumMollusca. The class Gastropoda includes snails and slugs of all kinds and all sizes from microscopic to large. There are many thousands of species of sea snails and sea slugs, as well as freshwater snails, freshwater limpets, land snails and land slugs.
The class Gastropoda contains a vast total of named species, second only to the insects in overall number. The fossil history of this class goes back to the Late Cambrian. There are 611 families of gastropods known, of which 202 are extinct and appear only in the fossil record.
Hatching Stick Insect
$59.00The Phasmatodea are an order of insects, whose members are variously known as stick insects (in Europe and Australasia), walking sticks or stick-bugs (in the United States and Canada), phasmids, ghost insects and leaf insects (generally the family Phylliidae). The ordinal name is derived from the Ancient Greek φάσμα phasma, meaning an apparition or phantom, and refers to the resemblance of many species to sticks or leaves. Their natural camouflage can make them extremely difficult to spot. Phasmatodea can be found all over the world in warmer zones, especially the tropics and subtropics. The greatest diversity is found in Southeast Asia and South America, followed by Australia. Phasmids also have a considerable presence in the continental United States, mainly in the Southeast.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Tail Feather: 3D Model
$59.00This hummingbird is from 7 to 9 cm (2.8 to 3.5 in) long and has an 8 to 11 cm (3.1 to 4.3 in) wingspan. Weight can range from 2 to 6 g (0.071 to 0.212 oz), with males averaging 3.4 g (0.12 oz) against the slightly larger female which averages 3.8 g (0.13 oz).[3][4] Adults are metallic green above and greyish white below, with near-black wings. Their bill, at up to 2 cm (0.79 in), is long, straight, and very slender. As in all hummingbirds, the toes and feet of this species are quite small, with a middle toe of around 0.6 cm (0.24 in) and a tarsus of approximately 0.4 cm (0.16 in). The ruby-throated hummingbird can only fox-trot if it wants to move along a branch, though it can scratch its head and neck with its feet.
Diffuser for Canon RF 100mm Macro
$49.00$49
This diffuser is custom designed for the Canon RF 100mm lens and incorporates a snug one-directional twist lock fit. The length of this diffuser provides enough flexibility to get the most out of your working distances while maximizing the amount of light that gets reflected back onto your target. Made to work under close working distances only. The front nose cup design reflects light around the sides of the specimen in combination with an integrated Lieberkuhn reflector to maximize retro-reflectance and illumination. This diffuser is a must have for any photographer working with the RF 100 mm Macro lens by Canon!
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Diffuser for Canon M-PE 65mm 1-5x
$49.00$49
This diffuser is custom designed for the Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x lens. The length of this diffuser provides enough flexibility to get the most out of your working distances along the 1-5x range, while maximizing the amount of light that gets reflected back onto your target. The dome design reflects light around the sides of the specimen in combination with an integrated Lieberkuhn reflector to maximize retro-reflectance and illumination. This diffuser is a must have for any photographer working with the MP-E 65 mm 1-5x lens by Canon!
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“I’m finding the model I have is improving my light a lot.” – Nolie
Diffuser for Mitutoyo M Plan APO Objectives
$49.00$49.00
On a microscope or on a photographic system, like the Macropod PRO 3D, this diffuser set (3 in total) yield phenomenal results. They are custom designed for the Mitutoyo M Plan APO Objectives and can combine the properties of reflected and transmitted illumination. Using focus staking techniques, the lens shades stop light from entering the objectives glass while the white surface reflects diffuse light onto the sample. When observing microscope slides, the diffusers can reflect transmitted light back onto opaque materials such as gold and iron inclusions found in geological thin sections.
The diffuser with the smallest aperture with shade is for the 50-100x range, the diffuser with a large aperture with shade is for the 7.5-20x range and the diffuser with a large aperture and no shade is for the 1x-5x range. The shade is a Lieberkuhn reflector designed to stop light from entering the objective at the source. The white reflective surface is designed to softly illuminate the sample. These diffusers work exceptionally well for the Mitutoyo range.
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Hawaiian Bobtail Squid Theme (Ciliated appendage of the juvenile light organ): Research by Dr. Spencer Nyholm
$19.00 – $400.00The Nyholm lab studies beneficial host-microbe interactions between the Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, and the bioluminescent bacterium, Vibrio fischeri. Hawaiian bobtail squid are nocturnal predators, remaining buried under the sand during the day and coming out to hunt for shrimp at night neat coral reefs. The squid have a light organ on their underside that houses a colony of glowing bacteria (V. fischeri). The squid uses this bacterial bioluminescence in a form of camouflage called counter-illumination, masking it’s silhouette by matching moonlight and starlight; thus hiding from predators swimming below. The light organ is attached to the ink sac and it can use this ink like a type of shutter to control the amount of light. This likely helps the squid adjust to variable light conditions, for example cloudy nights or a full vs. new moon. In this image of a juvenile squid, you can clearly see the bi-lobed light organ and ink sac in the center of the squid’s mantle cavity.
The Hawaiian bobtail squid lay their eggs in clutches on the sea floor, where they take approximately three weeks to develop. This series of macropod images allows us to see the developing squid and monitor embryogenesis. Once the squid hatch, V. fischeri from seawater colonize the light organ within hours. This macropod image allows us to see a close-up view of the ciliated appendage-like structure found on the surface of the juvenile squid’s light organ. Once the squid hatches, the cilia assist in bringing V. fischeri in the seawater to pores at the base of the light organ. These pores lead to inner crypts, where only V. fischeri can enter and colonize. V. fischeri is a relatively rare member of the seawater bacterial community, making up less than 0.1%. The Nyholm lab is trying to understand how the squid’s immune system can differentiate between the symbiont and all the other different kinds of bacteria in seawater.
While the light organ of the squid exemplifies a highly specific beneficial relationship between bacteria and host to provide camouflage at night, this organ is only found in some squid species. All squid, however, are capable of another type of camouflage, cryptic coloration. Squid skin contains special pigmented cells called chromatophores that can change the overall color of the squid in seconds. Each chromatophore contains pigment granules surrounded by nerve and muscle fibers. When these muscles are contracted, the pigment sac expands, creating a larger surface area of color. When the muscles relax, the pigment sac can shrink to a small dot, 15 times smaller than their expanded size, hiding the color. In these macropod images you can see relaxed chromatophores on the mantle and contracted chromatophores around the eyes. The macropod images allow us to see these pigment cells in great detail.
.PSD Overlay files for MP-E 65mm 1-5x lens
$5.99This download will give you the option to add scale bars to all of your photos captured with the MP-E 65mm 1-5x lens. It also contains scale bars that are pre-sized to work with the MP-E 65mm 1-5x lens when the EF 25 II extension tube is attached.
These files work with any camera body as they can be easily resized to match the pixel dimensions.
