Common house fly viewed through a microscope lens and DSLR

I found this dried-out fly on a windowsill and decided to see what I could do with a microscope lens and my DSLR. Constructed a stable platform that held the DSLR, an excellent field microscope lens and extension bellows to take three highly magnified frames at slightly different depths of focus. Processed those into a single frame using CombineZP. Used odds and ends to connect the lens and bellows to the camera. I took quite a few images to arrive at the correct lighting and focusing progression.

Canon SL-2 DSLR, Ernst Leitz Wetzlar MZI microscope lens and extension bellows, remote shutter release, desk lamp for illumination.

Three frames processed in CombineZP and GIMP.