DeltaSigma wrote:
My hit rate of yielding a properly stacked image from the 55/2.8 micro is low - even when using a tripod.
It looks like a combination of focus breathing, aperture, subject matter, wind and the PS merge often doesn't work out for me.
I have had a lot more success with the 55/1.2 plus a PK-11
Colin
Colin:
This was the first time I have tried stacking with the 55 micro, so I was reasonably pleased with the 7 image stack. In the past, I would just set it at f 11 and just go with whatever DOF I got. I see you did well on your snakes head at 5.6. For this, I was at f4, not wide open - what f-stop were you using when you had poor luck?
BTW - I loved that dandelion shot - it reminded me of a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome - I was wondering which Fibonacci Number I was looking at!
This was the first time I have tried stacking with the 55 micro, so I was reasonably pleased with the 7 image stack. In the past, I would just set it at f 11 and just go with whatever DOF I got. I see you did well on your snakes head at 5.6. For this, I was at f4, not wide open - what f-stop were you using when you had poor luck?
BTW - I loved that dandelion shot - it reminded me of a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome - I was wondering which Fibonacci Number I was looking at!
Cheers
Doug
Doug,
Nature beat the mathematicians to it.
One of my favourite buildings is Spaceship Earth at Disney's Epcot.
I have so many photos of that object. Day, night, & infrared. None using MF lenses though.
I was most likely shooting my 55/2.8 @f/4 but I deleted all the files so cannot lookback.
I probably need to try using it under a more controlled indoor environment.
Yes - I was going to phrase that a little differently - such as those domes are a "biomimicry" of things like the dandelions
Will do - apart from a short break on Saturday - another week of rain here - so it won't be soon.
I have some photog projects lined up but all weather dependent - such as getting better at some astro work. We have this abandoned home place not too far from us that would make for a good astro shot (I think I posted this a few weeks ago)
and I wanted to also photograph some of our ghost towns at night - maybe I'll catch an aparition?
Alas! That requires not only clear night skies, but the right phase of the moon as well!
Hmm this "patience" thing is a tough one to master
leighton w wrote:
Isn't this some kind of Leica blasphemy, putting one of the cheapest Nikkor lenses on it?
The Red Dot Patrol is watching. Leicaphiliac officers are everywhere out on the streets just waiting to pounce and take a shot. Thankfully the Monochrom is stealthy and isn't noticed because it lacks the red badge. The underground movement says if caught they take away the EVF so one can't adapt, then couple one to a rangefinder. Finally you are released back onto the streets to shoot others that blaspheme.
gbohannon wrote:
Makes for a nice lens cap that can produce a fine image. And probably costs the same as a Leica lens cap too
Honest it is a lens cap, I'm doing pinhole photography.
graytrekker wrote:
A funny thing happened today:
I was walking by the cupboard where I keep my lenses and I heard a strange noise - sort of a muffled whimpering. I moved in closer to investigate - it seemed to be coming from the cupboard - so I opened it up and there was my 55mm f2.8 micro quietly sobbing. With all this recent talk of the 35-200 and the macro setting on that lens, the 55 didn't feel wanted or loved anymore. What was I to do?
We have had a lot of rain lately (we need it), but today we had a short spell between fronts so I thought I would go out and look for some fungi to shoot with the 55 - something different and refreshing to shoot. Well, I didn't find any. We have more rain on the way, so maybe later. There were plenty of little pink lady slipper orchids and wild clematis - both of which I shot and posted last year. However, I couldn't come back empty handed.
Here are two that show the range of this lens (not the most innovative of compositions, I know - things are tough these days).
gbohannon wrote:
I was reading one of John Shaw's blog posts last night and he was mentioning Helicon Focus and Zerene Stacker -
"...yield much better results that does Photoshop’s “auto-align, auto-blend” option"
I have not used either, but may check them out.
George
I use Zerene Stacker on all my extreme macro stacks and for that it is excellent, both in the stacking / correction front and the editing ability. The fine details and extreme mag of bees and insects are much more taxing on the software as you can imagine so flowers etc should be no worries for it.
cadman342001 wrote:
I use Zerene Stacker on all my extreme macro stacks and for that it is excellent, both in the stacking / correction front and the editing ability. The fine details and extreme mag of bees and insects are much more taxing on the software as you can imagine so flowers etc should be no worries for it.
