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Stackshot or Camranger for 1:1 floral still life?

Started Sep 24, 2020 | Polls thread
OP tokyowalker Regular Member • Posts: 152
Thanks Everyone!

It looks like both, or none at all, are useful tools in the box, depending on the subject . The link that Josh provided is very informative. Apparently quite a few cameras now have “focus bracketing” and “focus stacking” options in camera. I looked at a number of focusing rails, at least four that I could find, and Stackshot was the most well known. Novoflex has a very expensive one, and there is a more budget minded version Wemacro.com. They also have an intriguing microscope focus knob controller and quite a few hard to fine macro bits.

I think for my purposes at 1:1 I will start with the automatic helical focusing bracketing in camera, but I suspect I will need at some point a rail to try at least because from my limited understanding it works quite well with high magnification singularly  isolated subjects.

A bigger issue for me now is figuring out the memory and cpu requirements for the huge files from the Sony A7r4.

thanks a lot for the feedback guys!

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