Pancake Lens Required?
e6filmuser
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During a fungus survey in a wood yesterday, where a few cattle graze, we found this community.
We expect to find a small orange cup fungus on cow dung but not this community.
The white area, on close examination, was found to be hundreds of colonies of Lasiospheria ovina a tiny, spherical, ascomycete species with white, feather-like covering and a single black spot. I find this species in many places in my garden, and in woodland, always on very rotten wood. This was the first time I found it elsewhere.
Even more interesting was a tiny Ink cap emerging from the depths. Of the dozen or so species listed for living in cow dung, the only one looked the same was Coprinopsis accuminata a new species for me.
The highest magnification has a field of view 7mm wide.
Olympus EM-1 (manual mode), Olympus 4/3 x2 TC, Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, 1/250 f11, f11, f10 ISO 250, twin flash hand-held.
Olympus EM-1 (manual mode), Laowa 25mm f2.8 2.5x-5x ultra-macro at x2.5, 1/250 at f11 ISO 250, twin TTL flash hand-held.
The stereo is crosseye.
Harold
A low magnification crosseye view:
