I took them using remote shutter through WiFi+phone app. The tripod comment was more to be able to frame and get better angles.

It was so much easier than I expected it to be. Essentially automatic. If you try it out, I’d love to see your results.

Thanks!

The vanadinite (red) was 26 photos and the fluorite (green) was 50

I used the focus bracketing mode on my camera. I specify the number of shots to take and how much the focus changes between shots. One shutter press and my camera automatically takes all of the photos and adjusts the focus for me.

And this setup I only put my camera and the rock on a table next to a window. I still need to buy a tripod, but it’s hard to justify spending more soon after buying a camera…

Yeah, OM Workspace is the editor you get with Olympus/OM System cameras. Admittedly, I didn’t use it very much, but I get the sense it isn’t top tier. I’m just so thankful that there are great open source options.

I also love focus snacking

Infinity taco

I was very surprised. I searched for a free focus stacking application multiple times with few results and lots of recommendations for paid software. With how little chimpstackr is recommended, I expected poor results, but it did noticeably better than Olympus’s own raw editing software.

This is the best way. A raspberry pi is way more suited to managing the entire network of devices than turning a relay on and off.

This is a must have for me or I simply don’t use the app. An important detail though: it should only mark posts as read if I’ve scrolled past them! Not any post that can be seen on the screen.

Fixed in under 12 hours! You rock

That was my favorite sub, and I’m really sad it didn’t take off on lemmy. I noticed it was back up on Reddit a few weeks ago and I thought about messaging you to ask if you put it back or reddit gave it to someone else. Fuck reddit.

Huh, I guess I’ll just embrace it then! Thanks for the input

Alright, I’ll check those out too. I have been assuming those would be more complicated to set up as a newbie

Do you think using TrueNAS or OMV is as easy as Samba? Or maybe there are some benefits that justify a little bit more challenging solution?

Would you recommend a VM or LXC to pass the drive through to/install samba?

This is helpful, thank you. I’ll have to look into the different ways to accomplish this. It would feel weird to access a drive over my network when it’s just from another container. Maybe it’s not as weird as I think it is?

Your comment sounds really helpful, but I’m going to have to come back and read it when I understand things more lol

Funny, I also have a mini-PC and a 4TB USB drive. That’s helpful though. Is it possible to mount the entire drive to two different containers? Or does it have to be separate “chunks” of it?

For example, I want a container for Plex and another container for Samba to share the drive on my network. Both would be installed on the internal SSD. Can I set it up so both containers have direct access to the entire external drive at the same time?

Thanks. That’s what I was thinking but I wasn’t sure if it was easier to have Plex and samba in the same container since I want both to directly access the hard drive.

That’s really helpful thanks. I should be able to Google around and figure out how to install samba. Would you recommend installing samba directly on the host or spinning up a dedicated VM or LXC to install there?

I’m planning on running Plex in a LXC. Maybe install Samba on that container alongside Plex?