gnl.weirdness said:
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Hell yeah, second attempt came out way nicer. Now just work on that light control :: )
My tubes just came in as well, tried to shoot some frozen blueberries but I had to much wobble in the tripod which I need to figure out. I have the 190pro, which should be well capable of holding the 5dmkiii and 100mm methinks.
Also have the dslr controller cable for the cam coming tomorrow which will eliminate any need to worry about wobble, just wind when outside hah.
Thanks. Um, the thread title does say "beginners only please", my $0.25 qualifies. I didn't bother a bit about lighting, I guess that's obvious. I just hoped for success stacking.
Tubes, not what I thought they'd be. Focusing and hyperfocal distances are incredibly close, so close it's going to take some clever to get light in there without shadows of the lens.
DSLR Controller, I think you'll like it, I sure like it a lot. Very convenient having tether control on my phone or tablet, focus stacking is only one feature.
It does yell at you if you've set up to back button focus, it apparently needs focus on the shutter button if you want to have app focus control. I set one of my custom shooting modes to shutter button focus, full manual, f6.3 @ 1/125, ISO 100, auto WB, it's as good a base point as any to start from.
I think there's a provision for a delay between sequential shots to allow flash recycling.
Intervalometer is built in. Focus pulling to preset stops in preset steps too.
Lots more, fairly decent interface.
Last I looked for support, there are a few pages covering basics on the dev's home pages for the app, past that there's a huge long, single thread at xda-developers,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202082 , 336 pages.
Here's the 12 frame f11 stack gif'd, hope I got the right one, it's 3mb. The largest version is 25mb, the xcf is half a gig.
Notice how the frames march closer as focus gets closer as though the lens zoomed.
I actually think it did zoom but I'm clueless how and/or why.