Praying Mantises on Kodachrome 25

Camera: Zénith-E
Focal: 100 mm
Shutter speed: 0.004 sec
Aperture: f/ 11

by Yvan from St-Jérôme CA on 08 May 2026

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this is a 2nd slide of these Praying Mantises. these are my first macro photographs with my 1st SLR camera, a Zenith-E. on Kodachrome 25 film. As a macro lens I had patented a binocular lens, reversed and then solidified with tape on the 55mm lens. This gave approximately the equivalent of a +2 diopter close-up filter. This photo is 'blurry' but I still wanted to publish it. All of this was a very, very long time ago, in 1972.