It's coming to get you!

Neat action shot.

Hum. Restarted my system today and wasn't able to reproduce this after several attempts. I usually just send the system to sleep. Might have been some weirdness introduced that way, plus Win10 is often flakey. Sorry about that!

Another minor one that's bitten me a couple times lately. During a dmap, when the contrast threshold dialog box has appeared, attempting to move or zoom the partially-complete image causes the dmap to continue with the default setting, rather than waiting for explicit input.

Very cool! Were the "stars" an artifact on the slide or a bit of fun?

Still processing the photos. Just found a sequence where you can literally see the snowflake blowing away

Thanks! I had looked in the "Image saving" options. Works like a charm!

All of these are very minor; they only rise to "occasional annoyance" when I'm working on a large number of quick stacks. I'm running on Win10. 1) When processing a dmap stack, a window pops up to set the contrast threshold. This window does not stay with the main Zerene window - if I'm running Zere...

For those of you who live in warm places :) The flakes are 2-3 mm, we had a nice steady snowfall today so I shot about 3000 pictures with focus bracketing (so not that many shutter presses!). Olympus EM-5 MkII, Olympus 60mm Macro, Raynox 150. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/6649_2019_f...

The only minor bit I'd add here is that I've experienced some cheap plastic foams offgassing and leaving a residue (on tools, not optics). For a project like this I'd pay a bit more for certainty of what plastic I had.

I'd seen his site before, but not read his techniques. Very interesting. He makes no mention of stacking; given that he's photographing them flat his rig must have adequate depth of field. I'll have to consider - I could probably pick up a 4x or 5x sometime. Thanks!

As should have been obvious to me, the Mitty 10x was unsuited to this particular application. Even a 3 mm snowflake completely filled the FOV. The quest continues.

I have a Raynox 250; my next experiment will be to use that with the 40-150 lens and no teleconverter.

I should also mention that those pics have an FOV of about 4 mm, cropped down from about 16 mm or so, and are low quality .jpg to meet the board size requirements.

I usually don't get tags right the first time, but let's go! I really appreciate all the feedback! It does kind of look like something is wrong with the stack, though, as much of thr flake is still out of focus. The center seems to be in worse focus than the second picture shows. It's not a good sta...

I've been trying my hand at photographing snowflakes as opportunity permits. I'm not a very experienced photographer, and am at a bit of a loss to improve one particular problem - excessive CA in these stacks. First, equipment. I have an Olympus OM-D EM-5 Mk II, Olympus 40-150mm PRO, 1.4x teleconver...

I bought several sets of step-up and step-down rings due to the confusion - mine and the vendors - between which is which. All I can say is that they are pretty cheap and I've always got a bunch to choose from :) Consider, if that particular one isn't expensive, buying both, just to cover the possib...