Post by belgiumreporter on Oct 11, 2014 8:58:27 GMT -5
Don't know if camera collecrtor is the right place to show this, but i thought some of you might be intersted. Recently i wanted to use my nikon camera control software again but it was on the "old" laptop and i needed to do some studio work with the "new" laptop on wich the nikon software wasn't installed, to make a long story short if i wanted nikon control on my new laptop it would cost me 159€ once more. I wasn't planning on spending this amount of money just for a few shots and i decided to look elsewhere to see if anything software wise was available. After a small search the "control my nikon" program came under my attention and after a brief trial period i was completely convinced that this was going to be my next tethering program. At only 29 $ and with a lot more features then the original nikon software (and a license to use it on 4 computers) i was amased at just how well the program worked, just plug in the camera and your set to go. Now apart from being a tethering program, one of the gimmicks bild in is a stacking utility that can be used to tell exactly how many "slices" you want and how much spacing and time you want between each slice, Just to try it out i've made this "recording" of a cracked wallnut consisting of 40 slices.
Each slice was recorded at 1/15th of a second at f 6,4 with a nikon 60mm macro lens set on 1to1 reproduction ratio on the D3 body. Then i used the stacking merge posibilities in photoshop to put it all toghether to get this (in my opinion) great result. The wallnut may not be the most spectacular subject, but as soon as i get my hands on something more interesting i'll know what to expect.
Here's two pics the first is one slice (just to show the shallowness of the dept of field) the second is the merged stack of 40 slices.
I don't think 40 slices would have been neccesary to get a good result but i've tryed it anyway just to see how my laptop responded to such an amount of data ( it took some time but it behaved well and didn't crash)
Each slice was recorded at 1/15th of a second at f 6,4 with a nikon 60mm macro lens set on 1to1 reproduction ratio on the D3 body. Then i used the stacking merge posibilities in photoshop to put it all toghether to get this (in my opinion) great result. The wallnut may not be the most spectacular subject, but as soon as i get my hands on something more interesting i'll know what to expect.
Here's two pics the first is one slice (just to show the shallowness of the dept of field) the second is the merged stack of 40 slices.
I don't think 40 slices would have been neccesary to get a good result but i've tryed it anyway just to see how my laptop responded to such an amount of data ( it took some time but it behaved well and didn't crash)
