Found This Set Up. Opinions Please.

Excellent, this thing is moving along nicely. Following along with your learning how to use the setup to maximum potential is going to be good for everyone. Ask away, this forum has a lot of folks who can point you in the right direction, and many more that are interested to see where this leads...

I love the "rocket ship" base on your blower.

Here's all the information you're going to need on the subject:

https://goccf.com/t/158182

It's a long thread, but the majority of the meat you're looking for is in the first few pages. The rig Ray built for Dar here is only one of a number of different ways of doing the stand, so yours doesn't necessarily have to look like this. There are enough ways to put together an effective stand that when it comes time to spend money, you can let budget be your guide, snag what's cheap at the moment, and let that dictate how you build it.

If you're ready to pull the trigger, start a thread all your own and we'll work on your specific case. It's no problem to post what you did here, as it gave me another chance to link that thread and any chance at that is a good chance.

Here is an annotated pic of the setup:

Here's a picture of my nice, clean, working area.
You can see why I need to rearrange with the size of the tower on the left.



The wife is makin by me some black out curtin's for the windows and mirror.

This is my only area I have in till my son can come and get his bedroom set out. Then I will have my own "studio"

Um, yeah, it'll handle things OK. Dude, in the vernacular we call that a beast. With that much RAM, you could put your programs on RAMdisk and run at Ludicrous Speed.

Nothing stopping you from putting a lens on the camera, pointing it somewhere and using that to learn the software right now. It'll function identically.

My machine is a 3.4GHZ Haswell, no overclocking, no water cooling, no SLI, but with 8-way hyperthreading and 32GB.

Stacking with Zerene Stacker is not too bad (a few to several minutes), but most stacks I do are not very deep -- usually only 40 to 60 exposures (not coins, BTW). At least, Zerene Stacker gives you something to watch, as the stacked image is being formed.

On the other hand, panorama stitching (with Auto Pano) can be very slow. I once did a 154-panel panorama (Milky Way, not coins), and it took hours to process. Much of the time you could not see the progress, so it seemed slower.

Cool!




Yea, I built it mainly for gameing almost 2 years ago and left room for expansion. I can run like 5 games at the same time keeping the frame rates up in the 50fps area. (Eve online, World of tanks, War thunder, ect...), When I build something, I like to take in the possibilities for upgradeing. Or I don't do it. I DO want to add 2 more 24in monitors someday to ease the process. They are coming down fast in price so maybe by next year.

The next thing I'm eyeing is 2 @ 500Gb SSD's to get the 1 TB hd free for images to start and then a couple more external 1-3 TB hd's for storage. I have read that some RAW format's will run at 24Mb each shot so I want to be prepared.





That's what I plan on doing. Ray is sending the setup and while I'm waiting, I have been studying the manuals and watching some videos to try to get used to the camera. It's going to take longer then I thought. But, I LOVE learning anything new and have been enjoying myself.

This might slow down my collecting for a bit whilst I get used to the equipment but It's well worth it in my eye's.

I Just received the AC adapter in the mail from Canon today as well so I'm set as far as that's concerned. Although I couldn't belive the cost of it, ($144.00 w/ a 20% discount), when I first saw it, but I know it will more then pay for itself saving the batt's for being mobile.

This is So much fun!