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by Grahame
Sat Jun 03, 2017 6:43 pm
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Handling Very Small Subjects
Replies: 7
Views: 1641

I use something very similar to this Mine has more magnification in the main lens, there's many models available. Serves many purposes. It makes it easy to sort insect collections in a petri dish. Extra magnification for mounting. Useful for soldering. Wouldn't take much thought to make it also serv...
by Grahame
Sat Jun 03, 2017 6:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
Topic: "403 Forbidden" error when posting
Replies: 3
Views: 2503

Just had another myself.
It was
? space roll eyes emoticon that caused the 403, also wouldn't let me preview.
?roll eyes, was acceptable.
It's a weird one.
by Grahame
Sat Jun 03, 2017 6:05 pm
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: core
Replies: 7
Views: 1395

512 GB is the largest SD card at present.
Somewhere around the 300$ US mark.
Will be interesting to see what 2027 brings.
Chicken scribbles on a rock ? :roll:
by Grahame
Thu May 25, 2017 6:57 pm
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: 99 mill year old daddy longlegs
Replies: 10
Views: 2046

Yes Rik you are correct :)
I didn't even think about scrolling right.
Duh
by Grahame
Thu May 25, 2017 5:56 pm
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: 99 mill year old daddy longlegs
Replies: 10
Views: 2046

Tipulidae is the latin for the family
Weird didn't seem to be able to edit last post.
by Grahame
Thu May 25, 2017 5:53 pm
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: 99 mill year old daddy longlegs
Replies: 10
Views: 2046

Yes common name confusion.
We have 3 Daddy long leggs in NZ.
This is a Cranefly using common names.
Nice to see such an old one
by Grahame
Wed May 17, 2017 6:04 pm
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: A spider and some strange insects
Replies: 5
Views: 1656

The white one in pic 3 is most likely collembola, really diverse looking critters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springtail
by Grahame
Wed Apr 12, 2017 6:37 pm
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: What is a good amount of stereo separation?
Replies: 24
Views: 10217

8 for me before the sphere starts to flatten.
Just as aside observation, I quite liked the 28 and 32 for depth of just the small area at the center of the cone.
Better than 8.
by Grahame
Fri Mar 31, 2017 3:34 pm
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: CombineZP Crashing
Replies: 32
Views: 18092

Deanimator
Did you try it as Windows 7 compatibility ?
by Grahame
Fri Mar 31, 2017 3:22 pm
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: CombineZP Crashing
Replies: 32
Views: 18092

Chris S I agree there's nothing better than giving things a torture test :) My suggestion was intended as a quick and easy way of working out if it was a software problem. For a download of CombineZP I've just used http://combinezp.software.informer.com/ The "greenish" button that says trusted downl...
by Grahame
Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:48 pm
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: CombineZP Crashing
Replies: 32
Views: 18092

As a thought. Right click on the shortcut or the app etc and use "troubleshoot compatibility" then troubleshoot program / The program worked in earlier versions etc / give it a run as Windows 7. It may be that it doesn't play well with W10. Helicon and Zerene have trials give one of them a spin, if ...
by Grahame
Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:13 pm
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: Centrifuge
Replies: 11
Views: 1882

Great looking centrifuge.
I had to have a bit of a dig on Google :)
It was made by FRANK S. BETZ CO., Hammond, Ind Chicago Salesrooms, 30 E. Randolph St., 3rd FloorNew York City, 6-8 West 48th St.
Here's some bios of him, interesting man.
https://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.betz/365.1/mb.ashx
by Grahame
Wed Feb 22, 2017 6:55 pm
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Stacking frames extracted from movie - which software
Replies: 19
Views: 7542

I've used VLC for another purpose where I wanted to capture every 5th etc frame.
It will capture all frames.
Worked perfectly.
It's a great video player to have around, not much it won't play.
Of course being free is another added bonus.
I doubt you will be disappointed.
by Grahame
Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:18 am
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Do you see a normal stereo ?
Replies: 11
Views: 1857

Harder to get the eyes to make a 3d
But getting data from both images unlike the first set where I think it all came from one image.
by Grahame
Thu Feb 02, 2017 4:47 pm
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Do you see a normal stereo ?
Replies: 11
Views: 1857

It works for me but with some "ghost" around our right side legs antennae.
As an experiment could you put them up with the images reversed to see if eye / handedness makes a difference as to how we see things.
Interesting experiment.
I'm right eye and hand dominant.