digiCamControl aka NCC

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Beta release – 0.7.153

Download: http://nikon-camera-control.googlecode.com/files/NCCsetup_0.7.153.exe
Changelog:

the code behind of camera handing rewrote
basic multiple camera support
some minor bug fixes
better error handing and logging
check on startup if wia activex is installed

I start to support multiple connected cameras, in File menu you can selected the default camera and in view menu is a window for capture pictures with all connected cameras in same time.

I plan to make a separated standalone library with camera control part code, this library can be used in other applications, but i will see if is demand for it.

Lately i get a lot of error reports, but to fix this i need more infos, like program version (pls. use latest version), os version and describe how to reproduce the error and the most important attache the log file.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

How To – Focus Stacking

“Focus stacking is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field(DOF) than any of the individual source images. Focus stacking can be used in any situation where individual images have a very shallow depth of field macro photography and optical microscopy are two typical examples”
NCC can help you to make series of photos with different focus, this technique works only with static, not moving subjects and constant light condition.
This tutorial works with Nikon cameras with live view and NCC version 0.7.136 or higher. I don’t find any good example in my house so i used a starfish The goal is to make a well focused full image, like this (not big deal just for example):