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one of the beauties too I guess of the LPI producing optimised shots on the fly
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Optimised shots on the fly? I wish!
I think my imaging with the LPI is very similar to your process with the NexImage (or a ToUCam, for that matter). I take sequences of images - in this case 7 sequences of images at 2 minutes duration roughly 10 minutes apart. The LPI is a little easier in that I can capture sequences of bitmaps rather than capturing AVIs and having to split into BMPs. I then post process in Registax and other applications.
The software that comes with the LPI can stack and combine in real time, but I don't use it. It does a good job, but it doesn't have anywhere near the features of Registax - I think for a first time user it would be OK to start with the supplied software while getting used to the process. The software actually does have the ability to do a time lapse sequence but this only does one frame at pre-determined interval.
I should have explained the details of the shots - I took 2 minute sequences of images every 10 minutes. This resulted in about 280 images for each sequence. I then used ppmcentre to crop and centre each image,stacked each sequence in Registax - soft wavelets, and created an AVI in AIP4WIN. Unfortunately, the AVI is too big to post here so I used Paint Shop Pro's Animation Workshop to create an animated GIF.
The result actually looks better as an animation than the individual images - they have an extreme case of 'onion rings' but that's another post!