What am I doing wrong?
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What am I doing wrong?
Hi everyone! I'm back and I'm trying to improve my stacking set. Although I got some good results, there is something that is puzzling me: I'm working with a wemacro rail (which I think it is great), but when I start focusing, when I press forward, the subject "jumps" to the right, while when I press backward, it "jumps" to the left". I enclose a video where you may see what I mean. I think the problem is that the sensor plane and the subject plane aren't perfectly parallel. What do you think? the enlargement of the video is 10,9X. The lens, a Nikon BDplan x10. The camera is a Sony Nex -6. I think the subject shouldn't move. Any ideas to sort this out would be very welcome. Thank you very much in advance!
Here is the video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W3zw2R ... sp=sharing
My set is the following.
IMG_1886 by Rickisub, en Flickr[/url]
Here is the video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W3zw2R ... sp=sharing
My set is the following.
IMG_1886 by Rickisub, en Flickr[/url]
Re: What am I doing wrong?
I think that it is thanks to torque of central screw plus backlash in linear guides on the sides.
When the screw in the middle change the direction of rotation it moves (to the left or to the right, depend on new turning direction of screw) whole connected gear in this direction. Connected gear stop moving in X direction (left / right) after closing of backlash on side rodes. It should be possible to change it for example via changing of rodes spacing.
Last edited by Luisifer on Thu Jul 04, 2019 7:45 am, edited 1 time in total.
Hi,
I have seen your captures on Fickr, ... they are very nice images.
Can you upload two photographs as perpendicular as possible to your setup and in the direction of the arrows?
(I'm sorry, I did not realize that I had not uploaded the image ... too many things simultaneously)
I have seen your captures on Fickr, ... they are very nice images.
Can you upload two photographs as perpendicular as possible to your setup and in the direction of the arrows?
(I'm sorry, I did not realize that I had not uploaded the image ... too many things simultaneously)
Last edited by RDolz on Thu Jul 04, 2019 1:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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The left/right shifting effect is caused by the rail carriage rotating slightly when you reverse direction. The slight rotation of the carriage ends up moving the lens slightly left or right, which shifts the field.
The simplest solution is to always be moving in the same direction when you set the endpoints and shoot the stack. That is, back off before the start point before you do anything, then move forward to start, set the limit, move forward to end, set the limit, then back off again to before the start point, so that when you do start shooting, the rail will have to move forward again to reach the start point.
You may also be able prevent the rotation on reversal by pre-loading your setup with some elastic band (bungee cord, surgical tubing) placed off axis. This will work only if the torque produced by the preloading is enough to overcome the torque of the rail that causes the rotation when the elastic is not present.
--Rik
The simplest solution is to always be moving in the same direction when you set the endpoints and shoot the stack. That is, back off before the start point before you do anything, then move forward to start, set the limit, move forward to end, set the limit, then back off again to before the start point, so that when you do start shooting, the rail will have to move forward again to reach the start point.
You may also be able prevent the rotation on reversal by pre-loading your setup with some elastic band (bungee cord, surgical tubing) placed off axis. This will work only if the torque produced by the preloading is enough to overcome the torque of the rail that causes the rotation when the elastic is not present.
--Rik
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I no sure where is your problem, but the three axes must be parallel, especially red and green ones.
Once the wemacro begins to push always in the same direction the play that this displacement allows is compensated and should not move laterally. My StackShot has the same problem, but discarding the first image, the operation is correct.
Once the wemacro begins to push always in the same direction the play that this displacement allows is compensated and should not move laterally. My StackShot has the same problem, but discarding the first image, the operation is correct.