{"id":21374,"date":"2022-12-08T21:50:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T02:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=21374"},"modified":"2022-12-08T21:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T02:50:43","slug":"my-time-was-better-spent-with-the-gorgon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/08\/my-time-was-better-spent-with-the-gorgon\/","title":{"rendered":"My Time Was Better Spent with the Gorgon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I intended to do some politics.\u00a0 I read a bunch of articles I checked the various dissidents to see what was ticking them off and I thought about \u201cwhat this country really needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

And I came up with nada.<\/p>\n

Basically, the Democrats are convinced they\u2019ve won everything and the country backs them up 100%.\u00a0 And the GOP establishment think they\u2019ve shut down Trump so they\u2019re pretty smug too.\u00a0 Well, they\u2019re both mostly wrong but since nothing works better than to give the people what they voted for I can\u2019t think of a thing to say.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see how bad they screw up the country this coming year.<\/p>\n

So instead, I decided to have some fun today.\u00a0 I did a couple more of those focus stack macrophotography exercises on Nancy Pelosi\u2019s prettier and more personable younger sister, Medusa.<\/p>\n

So, this is kind of a bone of contention between Sony and me.\u00a0 They\u2019ve never provided their cameras with a focus stack capability so I have to use work-arounds.\u00a0 There\u2019s a Bluetooth remote \u201ccommander\u201d that will send a signal to the camera to move the focus back or forth by a small increment and then I can trigger an exposure and then repeat the process by however many exposures needed to get everything in focus piece by piece.\u00a0 It works but it\u2019s painfully manual.\u00a0 I also have a tiny software program on my laptop that automates the process but then I have to lug the laptop around in the field.<\/p>\n

Other camera makers have added the programming to shoot focus brackets automatically in the camera.\u00a0 One camera maker, Olympus even has the camera \u201cstack\u201d the bracket into a single composite file automatically.\u00a0 Now there\u2019s a company that loves its customers.\u00a0 Sony?\u00a0 Well miracle of miracles they just added bracketing to the brand new A7R V.\u00a0 So now the software exists in Sony\u2019s system.\u00a0 Will they retrofit it into some of the more recent cameras through a firmware upgrade.\u00a0 Don\u2019t make me laugh!<\/p>\n

So here is poor photog, Sony\u2019s laughing stock with his workarounds and his decade plus of Sony tone deaf customer service.\u00a0 Will he never learn?<\/p>\n

Here are some of the bracketed files.<\/p>\n

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For the first stack I used six files.\u00a0 This didn\u2019t quite get everything in focus in the first stack.<\/p>\n

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Next time I took sixteen files and the final product was a lot better.<\/p>\n

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