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by Aenima
Thu Nov 08, 2018 2:32 pm
Forum: Beginners Macro
Topic: basics of vibration control w/ copy stand?
Replies: 27
Views: 15569

testing out flash - seems to be a lot sharper (also the lomo 3.7x helped there as well) :) Really pleased to have something set up that can produce a reasonable result. Still a lot of tweaking to be done, but happy with the progress. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4834/45061548614_5cc337c79d_b.jpg f...
by Aenima
Thu Nov 01, 2018 9:26 pm
Forum: Beginners Macro
Topic: basics of vibration control w/ copy stand?
Replies: 27
Views: 15569

The original on Flickr is 13586 wide So you'd need a 120MP camera, and a lens which might cost a bit more than the £25 Lomo! Cool :smt045 hmm, actually that is slightly consoling ChrisR, thank you :) I do kinda like the image - but I just think next time I should be a bit smarter with my time/energ...
by Aenima
Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:16 pm
Forum: Beginners Macro
Topic: basics of vibration control w/ copy stand?
Replies: 27
Views: 15569

That is some impressive photo! And you certainly handled your lighting very well, despite it moving against the subject. Question though: What you did with output image? What was your motivation to create that ~100 tile stich? 8000px is indeed something that you can quite eazy capture with modern c...
by Aenima
Wed Oct 31, 2018 4:55 pm
Forum: Beginners Macro
Topic: basics of vibration control w/ copy stand?
Replies: 27
Views: 15569

The pano is very impressive! What are the pixel dimensions of that thing, anyway? --Rik thabks - i'm not 100 percent on some details, but the extrazoom image is 8000px wide, and was reduced from the original 1.32gb (gigapixel?) stitch from microsoftICE. My laptop really struggled, and tiny adjustme...
by Aenima
Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:52 pm
Forum: Beginners Macro
Topic: basics of vibration control w/ copy stand?
Replies: 27
Views: 15569

thanks Rik - yeah the bugs colours are really nice up close - I don't think I posted the original pano that I made when I first got it [using the microscope and ping-pong ball diffuser]. Was a bit too big of a task really, but I saw it through :D Around 100 panels I believe, with each one a focus st...
by Aenima
Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:55 pm
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Spider
Replies: 3
Views: 1725

that is amazing :O
by Aenima
Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:49 pm
Forum: Beginners Macro
Topic: basics of vibration control w/ copy stand?
Replies: 27
Views: 15569

this was the first try using the flash and vertical setup - a Telescope focuser for subject movement. I was so chuffed to have gotten something to work I forgot to insert a colour background, so its boring grey - its a head of a bug that I made a pano of a week or so back [using the microscope] . :)...
by Aenima
Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:39 pm
Forum: Beginners Macro
Topic: basics of vibration control w/ copy stand?
Replies: 27
Views: 15569

How will you solve lighting issue while moving the subject? Good question haha :oops: umm, well so far I've been trying diffusers like a white plastic coffee cup with bottom cut out, and the insect is raised/lowered inside it - i'm thinking.. that with a reasonably high magnification/shallow DOF th...
by Aenima
Tue Oct 30, 2018 6:56 pm
Forum: Beginners Macro
Topic: basics of vibration control w/ copy stand?
Replies: 27
Views: 15569

a brief update - instead of persevering with the microscope / camera separation, I realised a lot of my motivation for trying this was basically 'macro' rather than 'micro' - so I kick-started a side project i'd been hoping to one day achieve and moved the copy stand across, and am figuring out some...
by Aenima
Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:37 am
Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
Topic: snail shell
Replies: 4
Views: 1351

Smokedaddy wrote:That turned out very nice. I was trying to do something similar yesterday.
thank you Smokedaddy, appreciate the comment - hope your project worked out well.
by Aenima
Sun Oct 14, 2018 6:09 pm
Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
Topic: snail shell
Replies: 4
Views: 1351

snail shell

Shot using a microscope (BHTU) leitz 2.5x npl canon 1200D - clip on LED and ping-pong ball diffuser, using focus knob to shoot frames for a stack - apprx 40-70 images each panel, with 6 panels stitched into the end result. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1905/45301938441_63dd1cb3b4_b.jpg Snail Shell ...
by Aenima
Wed Oct 10, 2018 3:15 pm
Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
Topic: Pediastrum and Scenedesmus (ob. 100X)
Replies: 11
Views: 1809

those are utterly fantastic Jacek
by Aenima
Tue Oct 02, 2018 7:45 am
Forum: Beginners Macro
Topic: basics of vibration control w/ copy stand?
Replies: 27
Views: 15569

Cool. awesome info - Many thanks for the replies -- A few of the things Alan and Pau have added definitely help to reassure me that what i'm doing is along the right lines :) i wasn't sure about that. So yeah, i'm using live view on the 1200D with canon utilities (very handy program!) - i'm relieved...
by Aenima
Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:53 pm
Forum: Beginners Macro
Topic: basics of vibration control w/ copy stand?
Replies: 27
Views: 15569

oh well :P With the slight wobble of the camera when attached to the copy stand it has effectively 'made up for' any reduction in vibration I might have gained by detaching the camera :/ Seems about the same amount of blur whichever way I use it, even with a huge 5k weight on the copy stand column. ...
by Aenima
Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:57 pm
Forum: Beginners Macro
Topic: basics of vibration control w/ copy stand?
Replies: 27
Views: 15569

oh cool - a bit of weight on the top of the column seems to work, per Lou's suggestion :) getting
there slowly but surely, which seems to be my usual pace :D