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The newest version of Helicon focus will allow you to control certain DSLR cameras directly through the software. Basically you hook a USB cable up from your laptop to your DSLR (if you have the right supported cameras) and the Helicon software will automatically step through your focus points and take each shot. Pretty slick stuff:http://www.heliconsoft.com/heliconremote.html- jamie
Quote from: Walkercolt on April 23, 2010, 02:08:51 AMYou guys are talking "toy" versions of Photoshop. The newest professional version will be out at the end of April for $4990, plus the per-image-fee, and this doesn't include the $600+ "Photo effects" (special effects), or the 8-12 more "goodies" you can add. Reference: This month's Rangefinder magazine. If you want to use your 20+ mega-pixel camera for "movies", add another $3000, oh yeah, You have to buy a new PC (XP64 Pro, Win7 is a "beta release" meaning if you have problems, tough luck) to use it, or an Apple G-6 with an older PC to act as an "emmulator"...and they strongly reccomend a refrigerated CPU cooler (another $450 from "Nerds" or "Tiger Direct"). Helicon is Russian mob stolen software from a place I can't talk about(make your own guesses). It's not new technology, it was done in still photographs (on film) before WWII. The type of photography we do on our model trains is properly known as "macro-photography" which ranges from about 1/10th life-size to about 1:1, or lifesize. Going closer than 1:1 really requires specialized lenses "reversed" (16mm movie camera lenses work very well on 35mm.) One of the hardest things to do on photographing N-scale is to BACK-UP, so that the final image as printed is less than 1:10 reproduction ratio. Why? Depth of focus, lens abberations, and diffraction all show-up FAR more than from farther away. C'mon, it's Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick 'em up, we zip right out again. We're not going to Moscow. It's Czechoslovakia. It's like going into Wisconsin.
You guys are talking "toy" versions of Photoshop. The newest professional version will be out at the end of April for $4990, plus the per-image-fee, and this doesn't include the $600+ "Photo effects" (special effects), or the 8-12 more "goodies" you can add. Reference: This month's Rangefinder magazine. If you want to use your 20+ mega-pixel camera for "movies", add another $3000, oh yeah, You have to buy a new PC (XP64 Pro, Win7 is a "beta release" meaning if you have problems, tough luck) to use it, or an Apple G-6 with an older PC to act as an "emmulator"...and they strongly reccomend a refrigerated CPU cooler (another $450 from "Nerds" or "Tiger Direct"). Helicon is Russian mob stolen software from a place I can't talk about(make your own guesses). It's not new technology, it was done in still photographs (on film) before WWII. The type of photography we do on our model trains is properly known as "macro-photography" which ranges from about 1/10th life-size to about 1:1, or lifesize. Going closer than 1:1 really requires specialized lenses "reversed" (16mm movie camera lenses work very well on 35mm.) One of the hardest things to do on photographing N-scale is to BACK-UP, so that the final image as printed is less than 1:10 reproduction ratio. Why? Depth of focus, lens abberations, and diffraction all show-up FAR more than from farther away.
The newest version of Helicon focus will allow you to control certain DSLR cameras directly through the software. Basically you hook a USB cable up from your laptop to your DSLR (if you have the right supported cameras) and the Helicon software will automatically step through your focus points and take each shot. Pretty slick stuff:http://www.heliconsoft.com/heliconremote.html
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