#Stackshot

[coffeenuts]

[daily-public-domain]

Day 241: Macro photography of a fly

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[calochortus]

Buttoned snout scales by André De Kesel Via Flickr: Extreme macro of moth scales (Hopsnuituil, Hypena rostralis, Lepidoptera, Erebidae; Boom 25 Februari 2024). Image 1.2 mm wide (inner side of left snout). Studio stack of 197 images (steps of 1 µm with Cognisys StackShot), assembled in Zerene Stacker (Pmax, Dmap). Sony A7RM5 (APSC mode) + bellows + Raynox DCR150 (tube lens) + Mitutoyo M Plan APO 20x/0.42; ISO-100, 1/80sec, diffused LED light (Nanlite).

[usgsbiml]

Royal strip of purple glow along the edge of this lovely Ground Beetle (Carabus serratus) from Pennsylvania. Photograph by Dorcas Ogunbanwo ~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~

All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.

Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200

We Are Made One with What We Touch and See

We are resolved into the supreme air, We are made one with what we touch and see, With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair, With our young lives each spring impassioned tree Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change. - Oscar Wilde

[bernardperroudart]

Linden Gledhill. Ferrofluid. Approx 7x magnification, 2x crop, F5, 20 frame focus stack using Zerene stacker, MP-E65 with extension tubes, 40 micron step intervals using StackShot

[artfromthefuture]

Homopteran of some kind_2018-06-20-09.07.35 ZS PMax UDR by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab Via Flickr: Random Homopteran. Prpobably taken with out 10x modified lens. No notes, darn it.

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White Widow Cannabis. This a one of my first attempts at macro videos. I all images where shot in DC FYI nothing for sale here. I shot for the growers co-op #nikon #nikond810 #microphotography #macrovideo #cannabiscommunity #cannabisfarmer #cannabis #cannabisphotographer #marylandcannabis #marylandcannabiscommunity #marylandcannabispatient #marylandcannabisphotographer #baltimorecannabiscommunity #baltimorecannabisphotographer @hightimesmagazine @herb @marylandleaf #timeisnow #tabletopvideography #stackshot3x #stackshot https://www.instagram.com/p/B7XMDGwDGWT/?igshid=1anhh8p3u53e4

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[wingedjewels]

Osmia aglaia, f, face, Mariposa CA_2017-08-03-11.43 by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab Via Flickr: More brilliant greens, blues, and purples from the metallic mason bees of western North America. This one (O. aglaia) comes from Yosemite National Park , where Claire Kremen's group has been looking at post burn bee communities in areas of chronic burns. Photograph by Anders Croft. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~ All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish. Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200 Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know " Ode on a Grecian Urn" John Keats You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen: Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/... Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Marylandhttp://bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf Basic USGSBIML set up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4 Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up: ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques: plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo or www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU Excellent Technical Form on Stacking: www.photomacrography.net/ Contact information: Sam Droege sdroege@usgs.gov 301 497 5840

[calochortus]

Eupholus schoenherrii scales by André De Kesel Via Flickr: Scales on the femur of Eupholus schoenherrii (Curculionidae). Collection specimen from Papua New Guinea (Fakfak, Kwama, date unknown). Studio stack of 324 images (steps of 1 µm with Cognisys StackShot), assembled in Zerene Stacker (Pmax, Dmap). Sony A7RM5 (APSC mode) + bellows + Raynox DCR150 (tube lens) + Mitutoyo M Plan APO 20x/0.42; ISO-100, 1/60sec, -1.3step, diffused LED light (Nanlite Forza 60B II). Detail full beetle in the first comment line.

[usgsbiml]

The Case of Excessive Wasp Bling. OK, there is something about metallic insects that is so attractively unsubtle. Even though I have several other pictures of Chrysidid wasps like this one, I can't help but have another taken. So, there you go. Ponder while reveling in all this metallic armor, why be so conspicuous if your m.o. is to invade other wasp and bee nests? At least to humans. Perhaps it is just a thumbed nose, a statement of obvious inedibility. Photo by Anders Croft. ~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~

All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.

Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200

We Are Made One with What We Touch and See

We are resolved into the supreme air, We are made one with what we touch and see, With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair, With our young lives each spring impassioned tree Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change. - Oscar Wilde

[vainaspaver]

Sphecodes ranunculi, F, Side, NY, Vipers Boscoss Roadside_2014-08-22-19.36 by Sam Droege +

[artfromthefuture]

mutillid, f,face, Millard county, Utah_2019-10-21-18.36.30 ZS PMax UDR by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab Via Flickr: Wicked Wasp Week. All week, All wasps. Witchy. Muttilids. Ah, here is one, such a group you would not want to meet if they were 10 feet tall. Check out the tarsal comb on this one from Great Basin National Park in Utah....perhaps used to pick the pieces of its victims out of its teeth. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~ All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish. Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200 We Are Made One with What We Touch and See We are resolved into the supreme air, We are made one with what we touch and see, With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair, With our young lives each spring impassioned tree Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change. - Oscar Wilde You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen: Best over all technical resource for photo stacking: www.extreme-macro.co.uk/ Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World: www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/... Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland: bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf Basic USGSBIML set up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4 Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up: ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques: plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo or www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU Excellent Technical Form on Stacking: www.photomacrography.net/ Contact information: Sam Droege sdroege@usgs.gov 301 497 5840

[domelong]

Helicon remote stackshot

Helicon remote stackshot driver#

Helicon remote stackshot manual#

Helicon remote stackshot full#

The guys at Cognisys are very nice people, you might consider calling them to see if they would be willing to sell you the present (non-USB) version of StackShot and allow you exchange your controller for the updated controller in the future when it becomes availalbe. It wouldn't be so easy if I needed to drag along my laptop PC too. A lot of my Macro photography is done outdoors, so this is a real advantage for me. However, there are some real advantages of using the StackShot system as it is now confirgured.įor example, StackShot will easily run on 12DC (small external DC battery) which allows you to take StackShot and your camera into the field to shoot flowers, bugs, whatever.all easily controlled by the small and easy to use StackShot LCD-based controller. I have not tried Helicon Remote yet and controlling StackShot with it (in the future) using a PC sounds pretty cool.

Helicon remote stackshot manual#

I love my Canon 100mm Macro USM lens for up to 1x shooting, but if you're using a manual focus Canon MP-E 65mm Macro lens (1x-5x) as I am, using the StackShot macro rail to physically move the camera and lens is a great advantage. They set the dist/step to 0.15mm (due to the DOF of the MP-E 65mm Macro lens), set the beginning and ending of your stack with a few quick button presses, and then the controller does the rest (a stack of 58 separate photos with a 3 second "settle time" between each photo in this example). Check out the video on the Cognisys web site showing how they stack focus an ant using the Canon MP-E and a 7D camera. My next test of StackShot will be using their "Auto-Distance" mode. No shutter cable is required if used with Helicon Remote. The shutter cable is required if using StackShot stand alone (with no computer) or with Zerene Stacker. Just wondering, what would be the advantage of using a USB version of StackShot? (I just can not think of one - please enlighten me!) It allows the StackShot controller to control your camera to make the image capturing process completely automated. They are uncropped and minimal PP just a bit of sharpening. Here's my first attempts at using Helicon Remote v1.9 with the 100mm Macro f2.8. As it is, I'm told the extra USB port increases the price of the StackShot package by $50/. As I anticipate using this system mainly on a desktop, this would be ideal especially if it could be made cheaper. Helicon Remote displays the LiveView so you can easily set start/end distances, the increment between shots, etc. Both the Stackshot and the camera are tethered to the computer via USB. Helicon Remote to control the Stackshot and the camera.

Helicon remote stackshot driver#

What I've suggested to Cognisys (they say they have this on their wish-list) is to offer a PC only version with just a simple USB/Stepper driver interface between PC and StackShot rail which could be run from an iPod or small netbook. Stackshot automated macro rail for focus stacking.

Helicon remote stackshot full#

The nice thing about HR is the live-view similar to the one Canon bundles with the DPP.Ĭognisys tell me that HR v2.0 won't give the full functionality of the hardware controller but more functions will be added in later releases. I suppose it just gives people the extra flexibility of controlling the StackShot rail from the PC using Helicon Remote v2.0 (about to be released) OR the hardware controller direct.

[justphp]

Helicon remote stackshot

#Helicon remote stackshot manual

#Helicon remote stackshot full

#Helicon remote stackshot software

Standard macro rail has 100 mm of travel from end to end, the Extended Rail has 200mm of travel.Fully automated - Controller handles the coordination of the rail and the camera.Check out our Li-Ion Battery Kit.įocus Stacking Modes: Click or tap a mode to see StackShot's behavior. All the flexibility you will ever need for focus stacking.Ĭan be battery powered for use in the field. Timing (both on, off and settle), number of pictures per step (useful for HDR –, maximum speed, ramp time, camera settle time, etc. See Scott Linstead's guest post on the stacking of live spiders for an example.Ĭompletely Configurable: The StackShot is completely user configurable. This enables focus-stacking for critters that may not be willing to stay in the same position for very long. Speed: No more manually adjusting the rail position, pressing the shutter button, and hoping you didn’t bump the camera. Repeatability: The “automatic return” feature allows adjustments to the exposure settings between stacks captured with the same position and step size as the previous run with a single button press.

#Helicon remote stackshot full

StackShot’s simple user-interface makes the automation of the entire image collecting process for focus stacking very easy.Īccuracy: Step size adjustment from full length of the rail 100 mm down to 2 um. StackShot is an electronically controlled macro rail system that coordinates the movement of the macro rail and the triggering of the camera. Repeatable Collection of Images for Focus Stacking - StackShot If you want to take your focus stacking to the next level by adding a touch screen interface or two additional axis' of automated motion (subject rotation for example) check out the latest version of StackShot - the StackShot 3X, we also have a comparison of the two controllers. This is where StackShot comes in, it is an automated focusing rail for repeatably collecting images for focus stacking. Additionally, sub-millimeter steps are difficult at best. There is a lack of accuracy, reproducibility, speed, and precision. Unfortunately there are several drawbacks.

#Helicon remote stackshot manual

These macro rails allow the distance to be adjusted and provide a crude manual method for taking the series of shots required for focus stacking. Most macro photographers are familiar with using a macro rail to adjust the camera’s position relative to the subject of interest. Ideally each of these images is taken at a fixed distance interval.

#Helicon remote stackshot software

The images are usually collected with a macro rail and combined using a software program such as Zerene Stacker or Helicon Focus. Focus stacking is the art of digitally combining a series of images with a narrow depth of field into a single image with an extended depth. How do photographers capture that stunning shot at high magnification and still have great depth of field? Enter focus stacking. Unfortunately macro photographs often suffer from a narrow depth of field. It brings to life detail that the human eye all too often misses. Macro-photography is a fascinating sub-set of the photographic world. StackShot - Automated Macro Rail for Focus Stacking

[longtricks]

Helicon remote stackshot

#Helicon remote stackshot manual#

#Helicon remote stackshot full#

#Helicon remote stackshot software#

Repeatability: The “automatic return” feature allows adjustments to the exposure settings between stacks captured with the same position and step size as the previous run with a single button press.

#Helicon remote stackshot full#

StackShot’s simple user-interface makes the automation of the entire image collecting process for focus stacking very easy.Īccuracy: Step size adjustment from full length of the rail 100 mm down to 2 um. StackShot is an electronically controlled macro rail system that coordinates the movement of the macro rail and the triggering of the camera. Repeatable Collection of Images for Focus Stacking - StackShot No shutter cable is required if used with Helicon Remote. The shutter cable is required if using StackShot stand alone (with no computer) or with Zerene Stacker. It allows the StackShot controller to control your camera to make the image capturing process completely automated. The shutter cable is the communication link between the camera and StackShot. The StackShot 3X Macro Rail package includes everything you will need to automate the image collection process for focus stacking except the camera specific shutter cable. Here is a quick comparison of the two controllers. StackShot 3X features all of the stacking modes in the original single axis StackShot and a whole lot more. By adding additional rotary tables and linear rails the system can be configured to capture virtual objects, do panoramic focus stacking, create giga-pixel images, make shoot move shoot time lapse movies or do real time video moves. StackShot 3X takes automated focus stacking to the next level by featuring a touch screen interface for easy setup and two additional motor control channels to make even the most complex stacking operations and motion control moves easy to execute. This is where StackShot comes in, it is an automated focusing rail for repeatably collecting images for focus stacking. Additionally, sub-millimeter steps are difficult at best. There is a lack of accuracy, reproducibility, speed, and precision. Unfortunately there are several drawbacks.

#Helicon remote stackshot manual#

These macro rails allow the distance to be adjusted and provide a crude manual method for taking the series of shots required for focus stacking. Most macro photographers are familiar with using a macro rail to adjust the camera’s position relative to the subject of interest. Ideally each of these images is taken at a fixed distance interval.

#Helicon remote stackshot software#

The images are usually collected with a macro rail and combined using a software program such as Zerene Stacker or Helicon Focus. Focus stacking is the art of digitally combining a series of images with a narrow depth of field into a single image with an extended depth. How do photographers capture that stunning shot at high magnification and still have great depth of field? Enter focus stacking. Unfortunately macro photographs often suffer from a narrow depth of field. It brings to life detail that the human eye all too often misses. Macro-photography is a fascinating sub-set of the photographic world. StackShot 3X - Automated Macro Rail for Focus Stacking (the next generation)