Hi guys this is my first post and I am getting great results with my SLS-2 in general. Love this product and it amazes me every time I use it.
But I am confused a little about light levels, calibration, software light control vs aperture setting.
I am scanning some fairly small things (from 50-200mm in size), and as a result I am often having to set the aperture higher than 16 on the camera. I just read in the manual, that I should avoid such a high number, and use the software to control the lighting instead and keep the aperture setting below 16 on the camera. But I have also read to avoid using the software to control the lighting in general. So it seems there is a little confusion there.
Also as I rotate the object I am scanning, I often see large variations in the light reflected. And as a result, in one position I may have perfect sine waves, in another I either get clipped waves or such low amplitude that it doesn't cross the dashed line, all in the course of scanning a single object.
So what is the best way to approach this? If I am already using the software to control lighting, it seems like the documentation warns about altering light levels once the calibration is done, but why not? It seems like many objects require a different amount of light as they are rotated. I am tempted to change the software light control for each subsequent scan of an object, since it seems like that should yield the most detail. What are the negatives from doing this? If it's just about maintaining accurate texture colors that's fine. I don't need color anyway, since I am largely doing this for 3D printing. Or will doing this also impact details and size accuracy negatively?
Thanks for any replys.