My Nikon D850 stacks images with my 105 Af macro but not with my new Nikon 200mm ED IF macro. Incompatible or am I doing something incorrectly? Anybody else having success with this combo? If not, any suggestions for a long macro that will work for my shots of jewelry?
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D850 focus stacking w Nikon AF 200 macro
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lickity split
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You can adjust focus manually with the help of focus peaking which will assist in your start and ending points , other then that you can just wing it with the 200/4
rumple
Senior Member
Correct. The OP can, however, use Helicon Remote on a screw-drive lens.
lickity split
Veteran Member
CamRanger too, but to use the in camera feature it’s a no-go
Bill Janes
Senior Member
According to an article on the Zerene Stacker site, a focusing rail works well for subjects the size of a raisin or smaller and is mediocre for a subject the size of a rose. For a bouquet of flowers sized subject, the rail is awful.
The limitations of the focus rail are due to changes in perspective as the subject distance is varied. I would think that perspective would change less with a 200 mm lens as compared to 50 mm lens.
As previously mentioned in this thread, Helicon Remote and Camranger can work with screw drive lenses. Helicon Tube looks interesting, but I have not tried it.
David5833
Senior Member
qDSLR Dashboard might be worth checking out. IIRC it worked fine with that lens on my D810 using a couple of different Android devices...once I understood the qDSLR Dashboard focus stacking settings.
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