This says its name is Openstage, but I do not see any software resources, and only a parts list, which is basically an arduino and a common stepper driver. Have I missed it? Also it seems like there is no kill switch or support for one. Seems kind of scary to drive something in realtime like they sh...

I used Helicon Focus for the 3D rendering. I think Zerene also does this. They are quite different functionalities. Helicon Focus uses the depth map to construct a 3D model that can be manipulated interactively in a viewer; Zerene Stacker works directly from the image data to construct off-axis vie...

In comparison, from a quick scan of the piccure documentation it looks to me like piccure does blind deconvolution all by itself. I say this because I don't see anything in the user interface about setting "radius" or anything else I recognize as being a specification of PSF ... From my testing, it...

Pardon in advanced for the image heavy post. Several weeks ago I was looking at deconvolution for heavily diffraction limited images. So I have some test samples just sitting about here. Deconvolution is very effective for astrophotography and microscopy. In astro photography they have an array of p...

With Mitutoyo objectives, you can't change distance or magnification easily. A different tube lens will do that but then you need to refocus it at infinity. It much easier to use a different objective.. I use infinity lenses with a tube lens on bellows. With, Objective-adaptor-raynoxAsTubeLens-bell...

I assume this is a depth map generated from the stack, extruded and textured?

orac, Are you looking to use your rail as a portable solution or as a tabletop/studio solution? If being tethered to a computer is fine, then maybe my DIY solution will work more for you. It can handle arbitrarily large numbers of steps and sizes. It also lets you select just the distance for step s...

here is a still shot using that square LED panel in flash mode, f/11, ISO 200, 1/160s shutter speed!!! I can not get any faster, else the flash will not sync. Can you tell us more about the controller and how it is hooked up to the camera? Some cameras have a lower max sync when using third party f...

That's interesting, Steven. Did you try it with any Canon lenses? Or was your adapter not "smart"? I did. For normal photography I did not notice any reflection issues, though I have read other people have. I am sure it is a lens by lens basis. AF was extremely poor, but again this is a lens by len...

My 60d had died some time ago, so I am in the same market. Nikon D810 and Sony 7/II beat it for noise & dynamic range. I had tried an A7rII, but that did not work out because of the mount. With an EF to F mount adaptor, it had some very bad reflections, and some times vignetting when using a bellows...

Float is OK for this particular situation, but in general, a better choice would be type "long". For counting, floats have two disadvantages. One is that on Arduino floats have only 24 bits of precision, so the maximum integer value they can store exactly is less than 17 million. The other is that ...

If you can get hold of an old (broken) LCD monitor, they contain some really useful sheet materials... So far this is the best diffusion material I have come across. The last monitor I salvaged from had 3 different diffusers in it. One plastic sheet which was frosted, no big deal really. Then it ha...

Hello Chris, “Even if there's no gap between the gears, I'd still expect there still to be a measurable elasticity, depending on the force and number of gears, on change of direction.” Yes, for sure but it is too small for me. I don’t have the equipment in order to measure something in NANO-meters ...

C.Seno wrote:In the first picture, (upper right section), I wonder if those other fibers are left from mites who had reached their destination?

So then, I guess we are actually looking at pictures of a bus and its passengers?

I just came across this thread, so I thought Id link you to another resource. http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=16054.0 People over at ML have noticed this issue(more prevalent in their modified usage). The main way camera companies deal with this is by interpolating adjacent pixels. ...