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Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:49 pm**

hell is this thing.

Was travelling at Warp 9 and would not stay still for a second. I don't even know if I got teh front or the back :lol:

Sigma 180 Macro
1/500s @ f/11 ISO 1600

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:41 pm**

Acording to my trusty invertabrate zoology book it is a centipede. (One pair of legs per body segment as opposed to millipedes which have two pairs of legs per body segment).

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:49 pm**

suzanneg wrote:Acording to my trusty invertabrate zoology book it is a centipede. (One pair of legs per body segment as opposed to millipedes which have two pairs of legs per body segment).

Thanks Suzanne. It was very fast and just zipped along all over the place. Bugger of thing to get a decent shot of. I'd be panning along just about to take the shot and it would change direction instantly.

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:52 pm**

Looks like a centipede.. noticeable by the 2 rear legs which are modified fangs... for injecting poison.. wont kill a human.. but can make ya pretty damn sick and hurts like hell.. grows upto 1ft long.. bigger in NQ rainforests..

Tim

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:02 pm**

Zeeke wrote:Looks like a centipede.. noticeable by the 2 rear legs which are modified fangs... for injecting poison.. wont kill a human.. but can make ya pretty damn sick and hurts like hell.. grows upto 1ft long.. bigger in NQ rainforests..

Tim

a foot long :shock:

Bloody hell. That one was about 3cm.

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:02 pm**

yup definitely a centipede...just don't let it sting you

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:20 pm**

yep centipede.

Steve

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:34 pm**

That's a centipede. They normally live in composting debris under old logs or slabs of bark.

The variety I'm familiar with (see below) is more of a dark red than blue and generally you find them up to around 4 inches long.

The bite is fairly painful, much like a a couple of Bull ants biting at once. I know, I've had one get stuck inside a glove while doing some farm fencing :shock:

Posted: **Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:19 am**

Many years ago when we had a fishing shack up Double Island Beach we used to regularly see them about nine inches long.

Posted: **Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:08 pm**

any reason for shooting in ISO1600??

was it so you could have a faster shutter speed?

Posted: **Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:47 pm**

Teh_Fonz wrote:any reason for shooting in ISO1600??

was it so you could have a faster shutter speed?

Yep, that was it. I was trying to get a little DOF and a reasonable shutter speed as the thing was going crazy

Not easy panning along a 180 Macro 60cm from a fast moving subject.

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:01 pm**

Hooley dooley, now that's a real creepy crawly... That's where a focal length of 180mm comes in just nicely huh... :lol:

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