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I am particularly proud of these shots because they were done with my newly constructed macro lens that in it's new configuration can be used for shots up to about f 20 (only f 8 used here) and moves with the in camera zoom matched mechanical allowing for "macro-zoom".
The most fascinating thing was, she seemed confused about how much to trust me. Sometimes even approached my camera--left her pray and walked more then 5 inches away from it to the beginning of my roof. Then she turned around and came back down to claim her long dead pray again! I also was using my Pentax 35mm SLR, I just used a 49 mm lens down to f5.6 (ISO 400 film film) to photograph her doing this. When I develop the pictures I may post one of them, I can't remember if I had my macro extension tubes on that lens or not. They show in sequence doing this. I did not think jumping spiders would be able to leave--then return to their prey like that. She proceeded to finish it and purposely dropped it off the wall by cutting all the threads holding it.
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Here you can see her true size. Macro shots really change perspective. As I said, she's not that big for jumping spiders on a world scale. The light fixture next to her in this shot is just big enough to hold a standard size light bulb. This is the door lamp I take pictures at almost every night.
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