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of shots needed and how far to advance the slider every time. I hope to get that to the point where it becomes second nature and I can look at a subject and decide on a suitable aperture, nr. The structure of the textile gives away where the sharpness lies and how many more shots I need to not end up with "fuzzy gaps". My first attempts are all about making the sliver of sharpness visible at different apertures by putting a subject on a piece of textile.
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I found stacking in Enfuse, Gimp or any other software really a crapshoot but with a dedicated stacking program things seem to go way better.
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For now I´m using a trial version of ZereneStacker and I really like the software so I´m in for a purchase later this month. postage.Įnjoying the learning tremendously. Nisi had an Easter discount of 10% in NL so I ended up paying €107 incl. He clearly is on another level, actually a different universe, but he did a review of the Nisi NM180 rail which he really liked. I splurged on one of those rails, there´s a guy on Youtube (Allan Walls and his channel is )I can recommend on learning everything macro-stacking related. You can find my stacks elsewhere on this forum, the first few I did by moving the focus ring on my Tamron 90mm ever so slightly and then squeezing off a shot but I found that focus ring not dependable enough and ended up with fuzzy "gaps".
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£120 seems to be about the price of a rail with manual screw control (eg Leofoto MP-150S+NP-50 Macro Focusing Rail | Wex Photo Video but I dont know if thats the best thing for the job - or if there are more flexible / useful alternatives out thereWow! Only a few days after the urge came over me and I see your post of only a few weeks ago. Got pretty much all the macro kit I need (except someone seems to have pinched all the Eneloops from my flashes) but suspect a proper focus rail is going to be useful I wish I had thought of this much earlier in lockdown - want to learn to do focus stacking macros This is a 25 image stack using the focusing ring on the FA* 200/4 macro.
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This is a 27 image stack, again using the focusing ring on the DFA* 50/1.4 macro. This is a 20 image stack done using the focusing ring using the D FA* 50/1.4:
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This is a 57 image stack shot with the M50/1.4 on a bellows which was mounted to a focusing rail: My technique, such as I have, is just turning the focus ring a tiny bit between exposures, or if using a rail, to move the camera a very small amount between exposures. This allows me to see where the focus is going. Obviously when doing close up work, the software has to do a bunch of resizing with either method, though more resizing is required when using the focusing ring.Īs I mentioned, I take a fairly laid back route with my focus stacks, I do focus manually using Liveview with focus peaking turned on. I haven't really found any difference between moving the focus ring vs. I load the images to be stacked into Photoshop and let the software deal with it. I do quite a bit of focus stacking for depth of field control and for the ability to use my lenses at their best aperture.