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To stack or not to stack

Started Sep 26, 2019 | Polls thread
John K Veteran Member • Posts: 9,870
Re: Depends...

deanimator wrote:

John K wrote:

BobORama wrote:

John K wrote:

...on what you're end goal is, and what audience you're playing for. If you stay inside of the niche focus stacking community then you're probably gonna stack, cause per pixel image sharpness is the only thing that seems to matter to a lot of them.

The disdain is palpable. If you believe stacking is a cult to which you don't belong and never want to, that speaks to you, not the technique.

No disdain at all. The focus stacking community is a niche, and most of the people who focus stack do so to get sharper images and not to get more depth of field.

These days, photography with anything besides a cell phone is a "niche"

Hell, from what I've seen, reading printed books is a niche.

No arguments there! I plan to get into "macro video" using an iPhone cause I can shoot well below 1x, fill the frame with the subject. and take advantage of the depth at low mag.

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