hi there,
i have received my stackshot yesterday and i would like to know what settings do you people use if the step increment is set to 1um and high precision is set to on. i am talking about these:
Tsettle
Toff
Speed
Tpulse
Tramp
Torque
thank in advance!
rob
settings for stackshot / high precision on
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Rob,
I would like to second your request. I have had my Stackshot for a few months now but have not experimented with different settings yet (such as locking my mirror up then pausing before firing the shutter to allow settle.
A small set of recommendations would come in useful? Perhaps against an example with typical or common lenses/objectives used by members? The more esoteric and difficult to source optics would be less useful unless they have common characteristics.
Presumably the NA is rather like aperture and for a given focal length on a certain size sensor will allow a zone of sharpness? This I guess provides a step size? Is this so?
regards
Ian
I would like to second your request. I have had my Stackshot for a few months now but have not experimented with different settings yet (such as locking my mirror up then pausing before firing the shutter to allow settle.
A small set of recommendations would come in useful? Perhaps against an example with typical or common lenses/objectives used by members? The more esoteric and difficult to source optics would be less useful unless they have common characteristics.
Presumably the NA is rather like aperture and for a given focal length on a certain size sensor will allow a zone of sharpness? This I guess provides a step size? Is this so?
regards
Ian
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Mine is currently set on:
Tsettle 3
Toff 2
Speed 2 mm/sec
Tpulse 0.5
Tramp 8 seconds
Torque 5
The times are not critical as long as they're long enough. At 1 micron I'll be shooting with flash and the stack will be deep. In that case the important thing is that the times are long enough to not overrun flash recharge or memory card transfer.
I've never noticed that torque matters in my horizontal setups. For that matter I've never noticed that it matters in my vertical setups either, but that's because I just crank it up to 10 so I don't have to worry about it. I suspect it's mainly an issue of power consumption if you're running on battery or constantly flying the thing back and forth. I'm almost always on AC power and the rail is almost always at rest. Probably the motor gets warmer at high torque and high precision, but when I ran an overnight test just to see, it never got beyond pleasant to touch.
Ian, yes the NA determines DOF and step size. See the calculator at http://www.microscopyu.com/tutorials/ja ... index.html and run the "e" slider full left because we're always pixel-peeping.
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Tsettle 3
Toff 2
Speed 2 mm/sec
Tpulse 0.5
Tramp 8 seconds
Torque 5
The times are not critical as long as they're long enough. At 1 micron I'll be shooting with flash and the stack will be deep. In that case the important thing is that the times are long enough to not overrun flash recharge or memory card transfer.
I've never noticed that torque matters in my horizontal setups. For that matter I've never noticed that it matters in my vertical setups either, but that's because I just crank it up to 10 so I don't have to worry about it. I suspect it's mainly an issue of power consumption if you're running on battery or constantly flying the thing back and forth. I'm almost always on AC power and the rail is almost always at rest. Probably the motor gets warmer at high torque and high precision, but when I ran an overnight test just to see, it never got beyond pleasant to touch.
Ian, yes the NA determines DOF and step size. See the calculator at http://www.microscopyu.com/tutorials/ja ... index.html and run the "e" slider full left because we're always pixel-peeping.
--Rik
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