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the pictures are cool...

I knew there was a reason I bought a macro lens. It's fantastically difficult to shoot with it focused all the way in at 1:1 (e.g., just forget about autofocus offering any meaningful help), but the results are certainly fun. That second ant is a crop of the image, zoomed out to 100%, with the sharpening cranked up. Entertaining thought: with the lens set to 1:1 macro, you can easily convert from pixels to normal length units. From that, the cropped ant is about 5mm from head to tail (24mm/sensor * 678 pixels / 3008 pixels/sensor = 5.36mm).