Diatoms stereo
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Diatoms stereo
Despite using every last diatom from an old keeper slide, I still have a pile of them left (I'll fetch my coat...)
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Impressive as always. Very interesting to me because I've been experimenting making landscape stereo pairs for a couple of weeks now. It never entered my mind to generate one with a microscope (meaning that TYPE of Diatom arrangement).
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There's no magic I'm aware of Rik. Diffuse lights shining on one side of a ping pong ball containing the scene on a glass bead. The ball bounces fill light around inside, but the back half is blacked out. Specimens are arranged to avoid distance detail being overlapped by thin foreground details. Long deep edges are avoided too. The smallest diatom in the middle fell down when I activated the adhesive - it was stood up and covered the highlight lower-middle which avoided the haze. Hey ho - next one will be better.rjlittlefield wrote:The stereo is remarkably free of streaky artifacts. I'm not even seeing any glitches that are typical of retouched stereo.
Is this entirely due to carefully apodized illumination, or is there some other magic?
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Oh, I turned off scaling when stacking and step size was a micron for capture (20x mitty onto A7r2 sensor at 13.5x - think it's 4.5 micron pixels).
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Diatoms in stereo
Crazy beautiful stuff, Beatsy.
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Thanks for the additional details.Beatsy wrote:Diffuse lights shining on one side of a ping pong ball containing the scene on a glass bead.
To explain more fully, "carefully apodized" (as I've used it here) just means that the illumination, as seen by the subject, grades smoothly from maximum brightness to none at all. That's important because it causes smooth edges on OOF blurs also, which minimizes their contribution to things like streaky highlights. If the illumination has a hard edge for any reason, then the OOF blurs have hard edges also, and that makes life a lot harder for stacking software.
Diffuse illumination with soft edges is what's critical for doing this sort of work.
--Rik