The Green Grass of Home

By aCaseiro

Trying to mount a stackying setup

Spent this week doing attempts to mount a setup for bigger magnifications and stacking. 
With this lenght of tube and weight it is very very easy to get vibrations in the edge of the lens.
So the main problem was to stop vibrations... with a few metal plates and corners bought at the hardware shop i manage to build a stable "tripod" screwed to the table and a base over the focus rail to sustain the fole and lens...
in spite of all the screwing all my first pictures were blurred... until I figured why..
the mirror of the camera it was the one to blame... 
It's necessary to shoot with a remote and the camera mirror has to be up.. the movement of the mirror is enough to ruin every single picture. 

Now I keep working on the light.... there's less than an inch of space between the beastie and the lens... it's not easy to fill light inside that narrow space...
also my current computer doesn't has processor and memory enough to deal with a stack of 100 pictures at once...

so the wasp is a stack of around 20... 

this is a clockwork job, but's it is a nice feeling to start achieving some decent results 

Extra pictures... the setup and a grasshopper

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