Z6 III with Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5x Macro and Nikon Z 105mm f/2.8 MC. First shot is at around 3.8x magnification on the lens, (slightly cropped). The Intel 83C196LD microprocessor die here is approximately 6.2mm in width. Focus stack of 105 images with my WeMacro motorized rail.
Second shot is just shy of 1:1 of a 1 point coin, 40 shot focus stack, also on the motorized rail. Not that exciting, but whatever.
After a rainy Saturday, this morning the weather was sunny so I went for a walk near home with ZF.2 21/2.8 Distagon, CV 35/2 Apo-Lanthar and ZF 100/2 Makro-Planar.
Jman13 wrote:
Z6 III with Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5x ultra-macro @ 3.5x magnification. Focus stack of 244 images (30 micron increments) with motorized WeMacro rail. 1986 Rockwell microcontroller.
https://www.jordansteele.com/2025/rockwell.jpg
Would love to see a picture of your setup. These are pretty awesome! (Macro is my favorite type of photography that I really want to do more often)
Watts Boathouse. Built in the 1870's and moved to its current location in 2007 and restored as a club facility for a rowing club. The Collingwood Grain Terminals in the background were built in 1929 and are planned to be restored and repurposed as a waterfront hotel and condo complex. The Collingwood Harbour where these buildings are located on Georgian Bay was a major Great Lakes shipbuilding harbour from 1882 to 1986 (more than 200 ships including warships in WWII). It is now mainly waterfront residential buildings. The combination of these two aging buildings needed to be processed as mono.
Watts Boathouse
NIKON Z 9NIKKOR Z 50mm f/1.8 S lens50mmf/8.01/640s250 ISO0.0 EV
kwoodard wrote:
Would love to see a picture of your setup. These are pretty awesome! (Macro is my favorite type of photography that I really want to do more often)
This was a quick shot I took of when I shot the chip from earlier in the week. Not glamorous on my messy desk.
Jman13 wrote:
This was a quick shot I took of when I shot the chip from earlier in the week. Not glamorous on my messy desk.
That’s very cool! Do you tether to a computer? I’ve had an idea to use a screw drive and a stepper motor to do photo stacking. Seems like I got beat to the punch on this idea.
kwoodard wrote:
That’s very cool! Do you tether to a computer? I’ve had an idea to use a screw drive and a stepper motor to do photo stacking. Seems like I got beat to the punch on this idea.
No, the WeMacro rail has a smartphone app that connects via Bluetooth to the rail controller. Small learning curve but it’s really well laid out and even has a step depth calculator built in. So after figuring that out I put in that step size, then back the rail up to the beginning of where I want to start the stack, tap the start point button, then move the rail to where I want to finish the stack, and it then brings the rail back to the start position automatically. I hit the start button and then it just takes all the images. Even has options for shot to shot delay, settling time after the rail moves, etc. it’s really nice.
