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Photoshop is just OK for small stacks or stitches. It had too many artifacts that were difficult to clean up when I tried it a few years ago. It could...

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Here's a shot of my setup for shooting macro panoramas in the field.

It's currently configured to do landscape panoramas. For macro panoramas,...

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Each individual frame of a panorama is focus stacked. The stacks may be a hundred or more images deep to get the desired depth of field. Each of those...

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It's not an enlargement It's just large. When you combine that many images, you usually need to downsize the final image to print at the standard...

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Zerene Stacker is relatively inexpensive and will give you much better results than CombineZP.
1x to 5x is relatively easy to do as the depth of...

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I tried using a semi-inflated innertube with my desktop macro photo setup. It's mounted on a 12"x18"x3" surface plate. It was pretty...

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Incorrect Focus stacking software handles this easily....

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There are several commercial systems for automating focus stacking. Visit https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/index.php for extensive info. I've done...

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This thread on cnczone may be of interest.

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Nylon may be a better choice.

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Or just use self leveling epoxy Can you post your design?

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Will they be straight after you weld on them???

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The macro photography people have struggled with this problem for a long time The first issue is figuring out the frequency of the vibrations you need...

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There is a whole slew of apps that do this. Search for inclinometer or clinometer.

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Yes, there is wax filament. PLA filament can also be used....

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GT2-3mm pulleys can easily be milled with a 1/16" or smaller end mill. Gearotic will produce gcode as well as dxf and stl files for the pulleys....

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Switch from a V belt to a timing belt would cure the outward forces on the pulley flanges.

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That's easy. Quit responding to posts and you won't get any notifications

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It's more likely the commercial users were abusing the use of the hobby license. This change will force more commercial users to honor their license...

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When you create a thread using the thread tool, Fusion 360 will make the thread the correct size (according to the specs) irregardless of the size modeled....