Thanks Cliff. I will have to check it out. The main reason I picked this up is to help with checking the edges as I go which works perfect. In that situation you are moving all over the place but it is neat how your eyes filter the crap out and pick up on the focused stuff. It looks much better than the pictures. I agree though you can not move it a hair! At least I can get some good pictures to ask questions with..maybe not publication quality at this point. I will have to play with some of that software you are talking about. Sounds neat!
Thanks!
[quote quote=“CliffStamp” post=19039]You can do focus stacking with any camera, there are free software packages that will do that for you. What you will find to get the highest quality pictures are :
-lighting
-glare
-movement
You really want to have the knife fixed as the smallest amount will blur it out.
In regards to magnification you will maximize at about 50X linear optically and then the rest is just digital. If you try to go over that you will have pretty severe FoD issues and things start to get blurry fast. Even with a really high end metallurgical microscope you can’t see much more because the 500-1000X magnification shots simply can’t get in focus to show any detail on the edge, hence why you have to use SEM’s .[/quote]