Re: [Gphoto-user] Nikon D800(E)

[Marcus M. <ma...@je...>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:43:38AM -0700, phb0 wrote:
> 
> We are about to start a large project to automatically photograph and create
> 3D models for several million museum specimens.  The specimens are very
> small (1-8cm), and we will use focus stacking to combine hundreds of images
> and build a 3D version of the specimen.
> 
> We are trying to decide if a Nikon D800 + Gphoto2 is the way to go.
> 
> Do you have any reservations about us heading down that path?  Obviously we
> will want to control exposure, focus, etc via script, and then move the
> image off the camera and onto the server for processing.  Servos will move
> the camera slightly and the process repeated.
> 
> Thoughts?

Nothing specifically is speaking against it.

gphoto itself should be up to it, we have a group of people using gphoto
and I think Canon EOS to do stop-motion capture.

Some points:
- Experiences with the D800(E) is still limited, as it is pretty new.

  But Nikon has so far always delivered very good cameras that work
  very well with gphoto2.


- Manual Focusing via remote control is always a bit tricky.
  Cameras want to be in preview mode and the stepping might not be
  fully controllable.

  (But this is something to try out.)

Ciao, Marcus