By the way, have you tried
Toupview's rather
amazing 'on the fly' stacking and stitching facilities yet? Used with c-mount Toupcam cameras not DSLRs.
Simply focus on the top or bottom end of your intended stack, click TV's stacking button - this starts the 'live' stacking - now (all the while staying in the live-view screen) a little window appears of the view as well as the main large window of the (camera's) view.
Move focus through your intended stack-range - the on-screen live-view image will stack as you go (in both large ands small windows) - at first you may not even realise what it's doing, yes-it's actually
building the stacked image before your eyes as you change focus!
When you reach the 'other end' of your intended stack-range simply click the stacking button again and the stacked image built as you went will be saved as any normal capture, only it's stacked!
This is quite amazing to use and I've been using it with a stereo-zoon this morning with it's (compared to a compound 'scope) coarse focus and inferior images for the stacking facility to 'feed upon'.
Similarly with the
stitching function - it actually constructs the stitched image as you (in the case of stitching not stacking of course) pan around the image - again quite simply amazing. All this for free - I truly dread to think how much other proprietary software that does this (BOTH!) costs!
If I get a chance I'll make a short demo video of this actually working.
TV has to be just about the most incredible piece of (free!) software I've seen for photomicrography....
Oh yes, here's a stitch made 'on the fly' with
Toupview - Olympus BX50 phototube with PE2.5x projection eyepiece, 4x objective and 5mp Toupcam LCMOS USB2 model. No images are saved, the stitch is constructed on the screen as you scan! I cleaned-up the background a little.
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This is the adapter inside which resides the PE2.5x eyepiece (projection) - the tube has focus adjustment and an internal 0.32x lens above the PE2.5x - the Toupcam screws onto the c-mount at it's top - the bottom has the olympus dovetail to connect to the BX50 trinoc's photoport. Parfocality is adustable to perfect with eyepieces.
A vitually identical setup to the adapter for my Canon DSLR, which doesn't have the 0.32x optic (but a larger sensor). The DSLR adapter I used on my Leitz Orthoplan was again virtually identical, complete with the Leitz 10x 'red-dot' projection eyepiece and the 0.32x optics - same size sensor but the 10x eyepiece needed the 0.32x optic to improve the FOV fit to sensor....
- WS_olympus cmount phototube adapter.jpeg (141.7 KiB) Viewed 4308 times
//KD