Got it! Thanks. "Stacking" didn't occur to me or I missed the reference.
Jack --- Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One set of pictures has a fly. The other no fly. Each is composed of > six > exposures. But I made a mistake with the one with the fly and it > seems > that two of the images must have been in the wrong place because the > end > result is not sharp. However, in between exposures the fly lifted its > > front legs off the flower and started cleaning them. So it looks like > he > has eight legs. Insects only have 6 legs. In one exposure the legs > were > down in another they were being rubbed together. When stacked it > looks > like it has eight legs. The other picture made up of five properly > spaced exposures is sharp all the way through. But I thought it would > be > interesting to show the one with the fly -- even though it ain't so > hot. > > I need some sort of device for evenly turning the lens focus ring in > exact predetermined increments. Some kind of a miniature ratchet that > > can be set to advance the focus in, say, one millimetre (focus) > steps. > For the microscopes this is not a problem because the focus knobs are > > graduated in micrometres. > > Don > > Jack Davis wrote: > > Don, > > I only see one image with a fly. Is my monitor cropping too much? > > > > Jack > > > > --- Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Dead right! Its and insect not an arthropod! The fly decided to > clean > >> > >> its front feet for the second exposure. I don't know what happened > to > >> > >> the focus but I may have left out at least one step. The flower > may > >> have > >> been vibrating for one or two exposures since there was a wee bit > of > >> wind. The other picture is very sharp. I used the Sigma 50/2.8 > Macro > >> EX > >> with a Tokina doubler. Every little hair is nicely resolved but > this > >> is > >> not the case with the fly stack. They look fuzzy. > >> > >> I used the massive Manfrotto and pan/tilt head. But I need a > couple > >> more > >> things for this job -- a bubble level and a ball head with a quick > > >> release plate of some kind. The level on the tripod died in the > cold > >> years ago. > >> > >> Don W > >> > >> Jostein wrote: > >> > >>> Har! > >>> Eight legs! > >>> > >>> On one exposure it has been rubbing the front pair together, and > on > >>> > >> the next they're back on the leaf. > >> > >>> Jostein > >>> > >>> ----- Start Original Message ----- > >>> Sent: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:55:32 +0300 > >>> From: Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> To: [email protected] > >>> Subject: Two pictures posted -- a quiz > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hi all, > >>>> > >>>> I've posted two pictures here: > >>>> > >>>> http://www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/HOLD/130341.jpg > >>>> http://www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/HOLD/130244.jpg > >>>> > >>>> There is something very odd about the one with the fly, besides > >>>> > >> its > >> > >>>> being slightly out of focus and taken with different lighting > >>>> conditions. I wonder if anyone can spot the anomaly. These > >>>> > >> beautiful and > >> > >>>> deadly plants are coming up now and will be at their best in a > >>>> > >> week or > >> > >>>> so. I'm slowly getting the lighting matter sorted out. And > indoors > >>>> > >> I can > >> > >>>> arrange things quite well now. But there are two problems > outside, > >>>> > >> wind > >> > >>>> and light and its simply not possible to take through focus > series > >>>> > >> with > >> > >>>> the wind blowing. For these series there was very little wind > and > >>>> > >> the > >> > >>>> fly was cooperative. > >>>> > >>>> Don > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Dr E D F Williams > >>>> www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ > >>>> http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ > >>>> 41660 TOIVAKKA Finland - +358400706616 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> ----- End Original Message ----- > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> -- > >> Dr E D F Williams > >> www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ > >> http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ > >> 41660 TOIVAKKA Finland - +358400706616 > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > >> > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > -- > Dr E D F Williams > www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ > http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ > 41660 TOIVAKKA Finland - +358400706616 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
