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Parallel cryo electron tomography via beam image shift
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Initial zoom during target selection #24

Closed asarnow closed 6 months ago

asarnow commented 11 months ago

Hi Fabian, SerialEM's habit of setting an odd initial zoom after taking a picture is hitting me constantly during target selection. The preview image is zoomed in very far so I can't see if it's targeted well without exposing a second time (guidance = True) or I don't have enough time to change the zoom before using hotkeys (guidance = False). Is there a way to force a reasonable initial zoom either in selectTargets or through SerialEM itself? Thanks!

eisfabian commented 11 months ago

Hey!

Yeah, the zoom can indeed get quite annoying. The feeling I got is that it helps to have the same binning for View and Record and the other problem is that you are probably zoomed in a lot to see your feature in View mode. It probably keeps the same zoom level when you switch to Record. So it should help to zoom out before you go for the Preview image. Those are just some ideas off the top of my head.

Having a reset zoom command would be great for this particular use case, I guess. Or generally having SerialEM reset the zoom when the mag is changed.

I'll put it on my list of SerialEM suggestions!

Thanks and good luck! Fabian