Posts: 5
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Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 5
Threads: 1
Joined: Aug 2015
Hi guys,
First of all, congrats Gunther and Matthias; noticing that the lens aperture was not changing during Live View capture and figuring out how to trigger the motion controller via the flash sync port of the camera was brilliant! Do I also need to mention again that Zoltan is a pure genius?
Now for my comment: I just tried the "True Holy Grail" technique on a tripod (no motion). The aperture ramping works great with any of my lenses except for my Nikon PC-E lenses that have an aperture ring. It seems that DslrDashboard doesn't allow to change the "wide aperture" value with lenses that exclusively have a manual control of the aperture. Can someone confirm this?
I also tried the technique with a motion controller (eMotimo TB3) in slave mode but - Question: how do I set the parameters for the motion? It seems to me that the only solution is to use Dragonframe to define the start/end points for the motion. Suddenly the cost effective aperture ramping solution may cost me another $295?! Am I missing something here?
I don't see any info about all of this in your tutorial Gunther (another awesome tutorial by the way!). Can you help?
Thanks for your feedback,
C.
Gear: Nikon D800E, eMotimo TB3, Rhino slider, system triggered via DslrDashboard on laptop computer
First of all, congrats Gunther and Matthias; noticing that the lens aperture was not changing during Live View capture and figuring out how to trigger the motion controller via the flash sync port of the camera was brilliant! Do I also need to mention again that Zoltan is a pure genius?
Now for my comment: I just tried the "True Holy Grail" technique on a tripod (no motion). The aperture ramping works great with any of my lenses except for my Nikon PC-E lenses that have an aperture ring. It seems that DslrDashboard doesn't allow to change the "wide aperture" value with lenses that exclusively have a manual control of the aperture. Can someone confirm this?
I also tried the technique with a motion controller (eMotimo TB3) in slave mode but - Question: how do I set the parameters for the motion? It seems to me that the only solution is to use Dragonframe to define the start/end points for the motion. Suddenly the cost effective aperture ramping solution may cost me another $295?! Am I missing something here?
I don't see any info about all of this in your tutorial Gunther (another awesome tutorial by the way!). Can you help?
Thanks for your feedback,
C.
Gear: Nikon D800E, eMotimo TB3, Rhino slider, system triggered via DslrDashboard on laptop computer