If the virus can only survive for 3 hours on cardboard and 72 hours on plastic, why would you not reuse a mask after 72 hours?

Zerene Stacker can handle the measuring.

See this thread: https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/ ... hp?t=11519

And this one: https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/ ... ht=measure

You might consider an Olympus which does in camera focus stacking. I don't know if Canon has this feature.

p.s. Renting a camera and testing various lens would be beneficial.

I'm using a Teensy 3.5 (arduino compatible) and a Nextion Enhanced 4.3" touch screen on a rose engine. Basically, it is similar to a 4 axes CNC. The touchscreen has 22 different pages. My camera setup uses a Teensy 3.2 and a bluetooth connection to an Android smart phone. There are quite a few funct...

One thing that helps when disassembling (and reassembling)linear slides is to remove the rail from carriage. In other words, have the carriage on the table not the rail. I think this should apply to stages as well. Remove the part that doesn't hold the ball bearings. Even on a towel, the little ball...

But the first single image is a nice photograph

I designed it in Fusion 360, then 3d printed it in ABS. Each ring was printed separately to avoid using supports and to make it easier to clean up the inside surfaces. Acetone was used to glue the sections together. It was one of my earlier designs using Fusion 260, so it's not parametric. That woul...

When you said dental wax, I thought perhaps machinable wax would work, but the melting temperature is probably too high. Dental wax seems to be readily available at any drug store pretty economically, but I don't know if it's the same type of wax as Thomas Eisner used.

Not missing anything. I think it's fairly weak, so it might be removable. There are probably better adhesives that can released easier without harmful chemicals.

Would 3M type 77 adhesive make it easier to remove the fixture after the shoot?

I try to use the same start position for each stack as I think this helps keep the perspective the same. My rig is designed for spherical panoramas which helps keep the perspective the same from frame to frame. Orthographic stitching will always have parallax errors unless the lens is telecentric. M...

This hood has worked well for me. It's rectangular. Any light hitting the side is reflected back out.

Yawns wrote: .. the lens is fixed, the sensor moves the step...but what about the subject?.. is it fixed too ?

Yes, but it helps to have it on a stage for initial focusing and composition.

100mm is a little short for focusing with the bellows. Perhaps having replaceable lens mounting brackets would work.

Macro_Cosmos wrote: Leofoto made an area Swiss L60 clone, not expensive. I'll get one during China's capitalism festival of 11-11 and see how it goes. Like the idea of arca-swiss clamp and rotation built in.

Do you have a link for this?

mawyatt wrote:
Is having the lens moveable and the camera moveable independently useful?

Definitely if you want to shoot non-orthoganal panoramas. Moving the lens' entrance pupil to the rotation point for the panorama is easier than moving the rotation point.