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I also think this looks like a bullet or torpedo. I wonder how this would have gone with stopping down and holding a small flash nearby. With the inverse square law, a flash held very close and fired while the shutter is open gives the potential for very stopped down apertures and thus depth of field. Even a cheapie GN 10 flash held a modest 10cm from the subject gives f/1,000 shooting conditions. In practice, you could get in to 1 cm for f/100,000 shooting, enough to compensate for the light loss from this extreme macro.Quick maths here -50x shooting = 2500 x LESS light, so the f/100,000 is equivalent to f/40 .Loose a stop or two for lack of reflections from wall etc gets down to more or less f/22 on the camera lens for iso 100 shooting.
With such a monster rig here with a lot of extension, the scheimflug principle could be used with tilting the lens to increase depth of field. Focusing this rig would be the hard part.
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