I do agree that the topic I was intending initially was about focus shifting that D850 performs. On the other hand, I found very exciting, inspiring and very interesting the turn that the conversation took and I followed it with interest. About Chris`sR respond, you mean to focus the tube in other t...

I guess that is what is referred in Ps CC 2017 as image settings (by default is checked the camera raw default option)
In the bottom line, you cannot do a shooting with infinity corrected microscope objectives using the D850
Can you do it with finite ones?

My understanding is the D850 changes focus position within the lens to do stacking, thus not compatible with using older lenses and certainly not compatible when using objectives. I find the essence of that kind of photography in using objectives with all the constructions that follow that, therefo...

For people like me it is a rather `canned` way.
Anyway I don`t intend to go that way, now that I made my rig and finnished it in the other way the one that we all know.
Besides I don`t have the monay.

The only prime AF Nikon 200mm I know is a beast that costs 6-6.500.

The D 850 id doing focus shifting, thus it is using it`s power to shift in small incriments the focous of the lens, when using a MF lens this can not be achived.

Sorry about my ignorance, but I am ussing, mostly, MF lenses, or hand made ones, with that thing, shifting focus, and requirements beeing on 200mm FL and 135mm in some cases for our objectives to give theare potentials, wich AF tubes will fit it?

Is it preferable to do the same procedure with 14-bit raws, will it have any visible difference?
I think that ZS has the option to transfer the files in a specific directory if the camera is tethered with its USB3 port.

In that point, it is clear that we should use tiffs. You suggest to shoot raw and then convert them to tiff ones in an external program (I have Photoshop and don`t Lightroom) I understand that clipping is something outside the borders, but will it be the same in the case of 14 bit raw or something l...

Mike, I`ve spotted the vignetting in my Nikon Ai 200mm lens & the Ais 135mm one I have, with my other Nikon objectives. I`ve already constructed two other tubes based on the 250 DCR Raynox and the 150mm Rodenstock-apo Gerogon that doesn't vignette so. I`m using a D800 and I deal with the little blu...

In my poor opinion, the in camera converted files are better even if we accept that the red channel highlights are clipped. It somehow looks more contrasty, it is clear, in my eyes that in camera conversion works better. Mike, you gave me an idea with that portion of the ship, I hope that when my st...

I`m back on some other post, my stackshot controller is stacked in the costums, as soon as it arrives I`ll perform my stacks.

Talk to you in some other post as well,

Thank you for giving me more arguments to make the decision not to take that thing, I`m on that side of the scale and a final boost won't do me any harm. Besides a new version of my rig is almost ready, it would be a huge waste of effort and money to come now to a bitter end in all that rig construc...

Dear friends, mawyatt : If you do that comparison don`t forget to tell us what will be the results of it. I`ll switch it to tiff as well too. CrisR : Don`t you think that all that issues (by adding them together) are forming an issue on the final result that is by far not an insignificant one. And t...

what is your estimation in the rise of pixels from 36 to 46? About the memory requirements, we figured it out, will it be an acceptable rise in the processing time? This answer is already answered from CrisR, it must be a matter of memory in the end. The only thing that bothers me is the time will b...