Hi Martin, nice to meet you here!
I have just built up my Merlin-System and tested it and noticed same affect. Moving time between shots is 3times longer every second shot.
System: HP-notebook VISTA 32, N800, ursaminor Bt, Merlin - no crown modifying, adapter modified for the 5D MKII but only with ATX 10-17 usable. (just cut and glued to get the lens on the middle of the axis)

H.a.n.d.
Chris
www.insight360.de

Hello Frederic,

unfortunately I can not provide you the logfile - after updating to 2.1.12 I cleared it.

5:20pm at this time of the year is not the time for bright sunlight here in Dortmund. The test shot was done in my workshop, with a neon lamp at the ceiling. I read about the light influence issue of the sensor, so I shaded the area of the bubble level with my hand, because I had this idea, too. But that did not influence the behaviour of the rotation axis.

The set of pictures above was produced with the 4+12+12+12+8 (32mm) preset that came with pw. The screenshot shows the data of the 0 deg pitch row. Thinking about it again, I might have NOT changed the value for the focal length of the lens in the camera/lens configuration tab. But thats impossible to verifynow. And  if I understand the idea of the presets right, this should not interfere, should it?

If you give me an exact idea of what data you expect I´ll shoot the test row again.

Regars Martin

Hi, made my own preset 6 shots at 0° for the ATX @ 14mm

you can see every second move is slow:

I don`t know, how to upload a file so here is part ot the log-file:

             Erstellt von Papywizard 2.1.12
   
        <preset name="EOS 5D Tokina ATX @ 14mm"/>
    </header>
    <shoot>
        <pict bracket="1" id="1">
            <time>
                2009-11-03_09h37m54s
            </time>
            <position pitch="0.0" roll="90.0" yaw="0.0"/>
        </pict>
        <pict bracket="1" id="2">
            <time>
                2009-11-03_09h38m06s
            </time>
            <position pitch="0.0" roll="90.0" yaw="60.0"/>
        </pict>
        <pict bracket="1" id="3">
            <time>
                2009-11-03_09h38m38s
            </time>
            <position pitch="0.0" roll="90.0" yaw="120.0"/>
        </pict>
        <pict bracket="1" id="4">
            <time>
                2009-11-03_09h38m50s
            </time>
            <position pitch="0.0" roll="90.0" yaw="180.0"/>
        </pict>
        <pict bracket="1" id="5">
            <time>
                2009-11-03_09h39m23s
            </time>
            <position pitch="0.0" roll="90.0" yaw="240.0"/>
        </pict>
        <pict bracket="1" id="6">
            <time>
                2009-11-03_09h39m35s
            </time>
            <position pitch="0.0" roll="90.0" yaw="300.0"/>
        </pict>
        <pict bracket="1" id="7">
            <time>
                2009-11-03_09h39m55s
            </time>
            <position pitch="90.0" roll="90.0" yaw="300.0"/>
        </pict>
        <pict bracket="1" id="8">
            <time>
                2009-11-03_09h40m28s
            </time>
            <position pitch="-90.0" roll="90.0" yaw="300.0"/>
        </pict>
    </shoot>
</papywizard>

complete file is here for download: www.dd-webtest.de/kundendownloads/papyw … preset.xml

reg Chris
www.insight360.de

Last edited by grosserfox (2009-11-03 10:05:13)

Hello, made another test with 20 shots 18°. Time between shots 6 sec, every second shot 22 sec.

Claude told me, that my bt unit from ursaminor with black knob has a known defect! (thanks to claude )
So silly question: could this be caused by the bt-unit?
@ Martin, what kind of bt-unit are you using?

reg Chris

Last edited by grosserfox (2009-11-03 21:38:28)

Hi all,

I use of-course the same module as as Martin ... Nice your GIF ! Can-I use it ?
Generally, I use a Nokia N770 with Papywizard 1.6 and I never had this kind of problems ...
I use also from time to time a Netbook, but wit Papywizard 2 stable release, no problems ...
I use only a laptop PC (Vista 32) for test purpose only ... I will try tomorrow if I can reproduce this problem.
Fréderic do-you remember when you have introduced the new algorithm's for the "optimized movements" in Papywizard (Version ?)

Frederic,

I used the standard presets which come with pw 2.1.12. No customization. Do you still need them?

Logs are on the go.

Regards Martin

Last edited by emess (2009-11-04 07:44:28)

At least with the two I used by now.

That is strange - maybe a firmware update in the Merlin itself?

My Merlin is one of the latest batch afrer it was reported that they were unavailabe fur some time in late summer. Chris, when did you purchase yours? It seems to me that this issue was not reported before. This made me wonder, because it is very obvious. Maybe someone of you out there can cross-check with an older Merlin head? Just let the 32mm preset proceed and have a careful look if every second movement is very slow.

I dont´t remember that there is a serial no. on the head, does anybody know exactly? Or is there a way to find out the firmware version of Merlin via pw?

Regards Martin

Tamas, it seems to work Mine returns '010981'. I added this command at init stage, so it will appears in the log.

But I don't know if this issue is related to the firmeware. BTW, does it occurs with mosaic mode? Try to setup a config with the same steps as with the presets...

@ Martin, bought my Merlin 3 weeks ago!

reg Chris

Hi, not very familiar with mosaic mode, but built one and run it: same effect every second shot movement was much slower!
reg Chris

gkaefer wrote:

question on the fly...
are autofocus, image stabilizer, exposure time & aperture set to off on your cam?

Hi Georg this even happens without camera connected and shutter set to simulation mode!
thks reg Chris

Last edited by grosserfox (2009-11-04 22:50:20)