(As you point out, Stackshot charges you "extra" for everything, even the cable connectors, the camera trigger cable, and battery. You get a helluva lot more for a $249 purchase than Stackshot gives you for a $1000+ purchase. The WeMacro is also less noisy and reportedly has less backlash. which, as you say, can be adapted to the WeMacro.Īnother benefit to the WeMacro is it is twice as precise, going all the way down to 1μm steps, whereas the Stackshot is limited to 2μm steps. The only advantage Stackshot offers is their controller. You get a battery pack, free, for the field, a camou case to hold it, and the fact you can control it with an app on your cell phone seals the deal for making it the superior, more-mobile choice if you want to use the device for natural applications. I went with the WeMacro over Stackshot, simply because it's a far better deal. As long as the motor is a 2-phase bipolar stepping motor, it will work. I also have a rotary stage yet to be used. The stackshot controller is able to control the wemacro rail as well, with the correct plug conversion. It allows controls via a smartphone application. Quote from: Macro_Cosmos on April 10, 2018, 07:01:54 -I have used the Wemacro stacker as well, it is a lot cheaper, and in my opinion, you get more than what you paid for. I like to travel light when I hike, but will be bringing my automated rail outdoors more often. When I stack in natural light, I usually hand-stack outdoors (much fewer stacks), but the colors are always better. I have a constant lighting source for my studio, right at my desk, but it never produces the finer/subtle colors that natural light does. A stack of 100 being taken while I process the previous stack in Zerene Stacker. This is especially useful when I stitch panoramas. I am able to just leave and work on other projects while the setup does the work for me. With that being said, I prefer automated methods. One may put stability of setup there as well if we're talking about high magnification work. The most important aspect of reproduction work is the human brain behind the camera, lighting, and then the hardware used. This is indeed arguably the reason why manual stacking will always remain superior to automated methods. That kind of takes the auto out of automatic, but that’s the price we pay for natural light. To counter this, I would have to be standing there, slightly modifying the shutter moment-by-moment to keep the light stable. Quote from: Macro_Cosmos on April 10, 2018, 07:01:54 -The only problem, which has nothing to do with StackShot, is that since I use natural light, on a variably-cloudy day the lighting changes from moment to moment and affects the stack. StackShot Automated Macro-Rail: First Impressions
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