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Do you prefer using low, mid, or high apertures for focus stacking?

Started Mar 14, 2018 | Polls thread
Peter Wu of San Diego New Member • Posts: 4
Re: Do you prefer using low, mid, or high apertures for focus stacking?

Best answer was given so I won't repeat, but only add my very first stacked photo, taken last night.

Camera: Nikon D750

Lens: 20+ year old Sigma 90mm f/2.8 Macro on bellows

Settings: f/8, in a home made light box with one SB-800 speedlight, M mode, 1/64 power, wirelessly triggered by the built-in commander of D750.

20 shots were taken. Focus was manually adjusted by moving the camera plane forward, starting from the nose in focus. I ended up using only every other shot from the images, after inspecting the results, feeling that using 20 images was redundant.

Below image was cropped to near 100% to show the detailed eyes. Only one speedlight was used on the left. A second speedlight is on its way from Amazon.

 Peter Wu of San Diego's gear list:Peter Wu of San Diego's gear list
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm F4G ED VR Rokinon 14mm F2.8 IF ED MC Nikon AP-F 70-300mm F4.5-5.6E +5 more
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