Cognisys STACKSHOT 3X Owner's Manual

the market that specifies the depth of field (DOF) for a given aperture at a certain magnification. If you are unsure of your DOF you can try an online calculator such as DOFMaster (http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html) or you can determine it through experimentation. In this case the published DOF at 3X magnification with an aperture of f/8 is 0.249 mm, or 249 um. We don’t want to run right at the DOF though – the stacking software expects some overlap. For this example we’ll set the ...

7.6.1 Lead-In “Lead-In” is the time that will elapse before the motors start following their motion profile. For video mode, the shutter will activate and then wait this duration before starting to move. For “Shoot-Move-Shoot” this is the number of frames to take before the motor(s) start. For time lapse applications this is a great visual effect to collect a number of frames prior to the equipment following a motion profile. You can set this to zero if desired. 7.6.2 Lead-Out You guessed it! This occurs after the move ...

9.18 SLIDER BACKLASH .......................................................................................................................................... 105 9.19 SLIDER SPEED ............................................................................................................................................... 105 9.20 SLIDER RAMP TIME ..................................................................................... ...

You can remotely trigger StackShot 3X to begin its current mode (if the current mode is ready to start). It doesn’t matter if you’re in stacking or motion control mode – If the Shutter 1 connector is shorted to ground it will start (or stop) its current operation. This lets you easily connect remote cables or devices to the controller for simple operation. In order to remind you that the shutter is set as an input the shutter icon will change its red output 1 to a solid blue circle: 8.5.4 P ...

time lapse. Restart from…: If you would like to start the time lapse over at a specific frame you can press this button and then enter the specific frame number. The time lapse will continue from that frame until the end. Go to lead-out: Press this button to just start shooting the lead-out frames from this current position. StackShot 3X won’t go to the end position – it will just start shooting the lead-outs from the current position. This is useful when you’ve realized you’ve moved too ...

There are several settings that you can adjust on an axis-by-axis basis. For most applications you won’t have to adjust these settings but there are some occasions where it would be nice to fine- tune the behavior of a certain axis. It’s easy! To get to the axis settings, first press the “Settings” button: Then you’ll press the “Axis Settings” button, followed by the axis you want to adjust (in this case we’ll adjust the settings for the X-axis): That will bring up a list of settings that you can scroll through. 9.1 Axis Type There are three axis-types a ...