Focus Bracketing on A7Riii -- Sony, I'm done waiting!

BurpgunChimp said:

lattesweden said:

BurpgunChimp said:

lattesweden said:

Aberaeron said:

Sony have not done too badly lately, with significant firmware upgrades available for early and current early release models. Others have been on the ball for years of course and Panasonic and Olympus have also provided upgrades and enhancements including for older m4/3 lenses to accommodate dual image stabilisation in some cases.

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Olympus added focus bracketing to several models in a firmware update some years ago and the E-M1mkI that was the flagship of the time even got the option of in body stacking since it had the CPU power to handle that.

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But but everyone keeps saying how it's too expensive and onerous for a massive company like Sony.

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I don't need in body stacking. The bracketing is enough. I prefer to do the stacking on a computer where I can choose exactly which frames I want to use to start and stop my DOF.

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Sorry I meant bracketing

BurpgunChimp said:

It isn't much functionality that is needed actually to do the bracketing in the camera. In this article one can see the Olympus menus for controlling it.

Olympus uses the e-shutter (slow 1/15-1/30-ish read out) and can actually sync it with flash. And since they normally shot the bursts as quick as they just can, you can slow the frame rate down with a delay between frames to let the flash reload if you use a flash.

They are cleaver those Olympus guys.

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Yup - more clever than Sony when it comes to photography it seems.

BurpgunChimp said:

There are other things I have in my Olympus cameras that I would like to see on Sony like Live View Bulb/Composite and the Olympus Pro Capture (Panasonic calls the same Pre Capture) mode. That function would especially on the A9 really fit perfect.

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Yes. The Sony RX100 line have it for High Frame Rate recording.

BurpgunChimp said:

Olympus also have in Camera RAW to JPEG development and the latest thing they added that made me happy to see is that if you hook up your camera via USB to the computer and work with RAW development in the computer software then the RAW to JPEG processing is actually done in the cameras DSP to speed the process up.

Smart phone users are used to just get an app for whatever function and if the camera makers can't produce new and fun software themselves and also don't open up at least an API then that will be another thing that will stop people want to use standalone camera.

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If only Sony weren't so anally retentive with securing their systems.

BurpgunChimp said:

Even the free open source app: "Open Camera" on Android has focus stacking and a lot more. Here is the source code: https://opencamera.sourceforge.io/

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BurpgunChimp said:

It's my way of saying LOL I've never even owned a pi

But the bigger LOL is for the SQL guy who thinks he is a device programmer

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lattesweden said:

If you can live with dragging a computer along you can piggy back on Imaging edge and get bracketing:

https://github.com/binarycamera/b8stack

https://www.andreasmariotti.de/automating-focus-stacking-in-sony-imaging-edge-via-powershell/

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BurpgunChimp said:

lattesweden said:

If you can live with dragging a computer along you can piggy back on Imaging edge and get bracketing:

https://github.com/binarycamera/b8stack

https://www.andreasmariotti.de/automating-focus-stacking-in-sony-imaging-edge-via-powershell/

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Yeah I've seen that. I do have a tablet PC but it's not particularly practical in the field. Or for handheld shooting.

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lattesweden said:

BurpgunChimp said:

lattesweden said:

If you can live with dragging a computer along you can piggy back on Imaging edge and get bracketing:

https://github.com/binarycamera/b8stack

https://www.andreasmariotti.de/automating-focus-stacking-in-sony-imaging-edge-via-powershell/

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Yeah I've seen that. I do have a tablet PC but it's not particularly practical in the field. Or for handheld shooting.

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Bracketing is best done on tripod but I agree that a PC isn't attractive to need to bring. If someone could make a Android mobile via OTG USB as the controller it would work.
Until then an Olympus E-M10mkII or III and the Panasonic 30/2.8 or Olympus 60/2.8 is as much weight and cost as the Sony FE90/2.8.

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LeonardoMS said:

Until now nothing on the Sony side, guys you will never see Focus Bracketing on older camera (camera with the built-in feature have many limitations too, maybe next models will be better)

The only usable solution I can suggest is the app Alpha Focus Bracketing. Has many features and by using your smartphone you avoid camera vibrations. More portable than a computer solution.

It's not by Sony, but cheaper than a physical remote control and pretty refined.

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LeonardoMS said:

Until now nothing on the Sony side, guys you will never see Focus Bracketing on older camera (camera with the built-in feature have many limitations too, maybe next models will be better)

The only usable solution I can suggest is the app Alpha Focus Bracketing. Has many features and by using your smartphone you avoid camera vibrations. More portable than a computer solution.

It's not by Sony, but cheaper than a physical remote control and pretty refined.

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