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A couple of Christmas snowflakes

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Joseph S Wisniewski Forum Pro • Posts: 35,461
Lovely. Have you considered focus stacking?

fwwidall wrote:

Like so many other people in Ontario & New York we got hammered by the recent winter storm. Happily our area didn't get too much snow, just a lot of blowing and drifting, but I'm sure that was cold comfort to all the folks affected by the numerous collisions and road closures.

It did however give me a chance to get started again on shooting snowflakes (in between shoveling them).

Here's a couple from this Christmas morning:

Those were nice. Thank you for sharing them.

For this year I came up with a method of attaching a microscope turret to my bellows with 4X, 10X, 20X & 40X microscope objectives attached.

As one does. I got carried away with that concept: the turrets on my Nikon Optiphot 88 scopes (yes, plural. I have a "problem") attach to the scope with a dovetail: I made a simple claw adapter to lock that to one of my bellows (plural, again. Addiction is a terrible thing). I have a 4 objective BD turret set up 5, 10, 20, 40, and a 5 objective brightfield turret set up 2.5, 5, 10, 20, 40.

That way I can quickly alter my magnification without disturbing my specimen. Details of my setup and equipment is over on Flickr

On my way.


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It seems to be working at present, although at 40X the DOF is very small even for snowflakes.

Snowflakes are great for focus stacking. This winter's project is generating 3D models from the stack's depth map, then getting the CNC router to carve me a 6-inch duplicate.

Anyway, hope you like them

I do, indeed.

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