We don't have a sense of scale for the very small, and gigapan + microscopes (optical or SEM) can go a huge way towards opening the country of the very small to a wider public. Richard Feynman wrote There's plenty of room at the Bottom, but even if you have read that (more than once :-), you still don't get the sense of what 'small' means that you can get from seeing it in a Gigapan.
Monday, April 19, 2010
micro focus stacking tests
This weekend I managed to start playing around with focus stacking, using Zerene Stacker. I seem to be getting mixed results from the final output images. There are however quite a few variables to play with, modifying depth of field through aperture size both on the camera and the microscope, varying number of images in a stack, light conditions, etc. The images above show the preliminary results. They were all imaged using the same aperture settings, about mid setting on the microscope and 6.3f on the camera. Each set of images contains the final stacked image on the right and two of many (40-50) images used to create the final stack, giving some sense of the obstacle of a reduced depth of field. These images were taken at roughly ~200x, ~1000x, and ~2000x magnification. It's neat to compare these images to those taken with the SEM in the gigapan below:
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