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To stack or not to stack

Started Sep 26, 2019 | Polls thread
John K Veteran Member • Posts: 9,870
Re: Larger DOF with larger sensors (not a typo)

mawyatt2002 wrote:

Lighting for stacking can be extremely challenging with certain subjects, more so than for a single image, and especially so when doing Stack & Stitch images.

This is where you and I are going to have to agree to disagree. When you stack a scene you are using only a small section of a single slice of the frame, the section that's in focus. So the the exposure over all of those sections is not additive. It's just one exposure, with the areas that are in focus blended.

So it doesn't matter if you're shooting single frames or stacks the exposure, and dealing with highly reflective areas, is the same.

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