The Photographer's Computer II - Macro Talk Too

Picking up from where we left on Tuesday, today we are going to consider the special problems faced by high data volumes as often encountered when focus stacking, and I will suggest some best practices for keeping your machines healthy and reliable. Check out the article on my blog, where you will find links related to this stream - www.allanwalls...
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[@garypannett2756]

Hi Allan absolutely love your videos I'd love to see a new video using the mitutoyo 10x objective on your bellows at 10x then pushing it up and down with both the 150 and 250 raynox I'll keep my fingers cross cheers🤞

[@sparkeyjames]

I'd be interested in this also. I have the Nikon PB-6 bellows as well as the PB-4 tilt shift. Normally I'd use my 24mm 2.8 AIS lens on the PB-6 but am interested in getting microscope objective to see if it does a better job with diffraction. The 24mm on the bellows comes out to 10x at full extension and the diffraction is quite noticeable though not terrible.

[@sparkeyjames]

When selecting a spinny hard drive the size, speed and the the MTBF (mean time before failure) are the most important considerations. That being said I've given up on spinning hard drives. Anything I do is on an M2 drive these days. The speed between raid with spinning drives still isn't anywhere near as fast as an M2 drive. Backing up an M2 is as simple as getting a Sabrent M2 duplicator. It will also function as a USB M2 drive via usb C. The biggest problem is extracting the M2 drive from the computer to do the backup. The Sabrent duplicator will backup a 2TB M2 to another 2TB M2 in about 1/2 hour. Also M2 drives can be stored easily in a bank vault drawer or a fireproof safe. Also m2 drives are silent.

[@phila8226]

Sure be nice to get rid of the 10 min of music nothing at the start - adds nothing to an otherwise excellent program.