R7 focus stacking in camera

Alastair Norcross wrote:

I tried out the R7 in-camera focus stacking, and am very happy with the result. I should say, of course, that I am interested in how my images look to normal people at normal display sizes and normal viewing distances. I'm sure there will be some (one or two at least), who would look at these results and immediately moan about all kinds of objectionable artefacts. This post is not for them. A recent post on this forum served the useful function of bringing two such people to each other's attention. It's nice that they found each other, and they can happily decry to each other the terrible results that other people are actually quite happy with. What I am amazed about with this feature on the R7 is just how easy it is to use, and produce results that I like (as does everyone else who has seen them so far, most of whom are not obsessive pixel peepers). My previous forays into focus stacking were done with the focus bracketing on my M6II on a tripod. I then loaded the files (anywhere from 15 to 30 of them) into Lightroom, and sent them to open as layers in Photoshop. In PS I performed two separate operations on the layers (first aligning, then merging), flattened the layers, and saved the resulting image. With this image from my R7 I set the camera to take 25 images, handheld. It took under a second to take all 25 images, and then around 20 seconds to produce the stacked JPEG. I cropped it a bit, and enhanced a bit in Lightroom. Here's a web-sized version:

As far as I know, the R7 is the first Canon camera to perform the whole stacking procedure in camera (though you can do it manually if you want--the camera also saves all the RAW files). To me, it's like magic.

Great stuff - would be interesting to see how it compares to DPP which seems the only option in the R10 and R5 or with Helicon Soft etc...for those with paid software.

Images where part of the object sits a bit in front of something behind it is my challenge at times - even in a simple flower or insect shot like the below which is ~ 12 images - Helicon with some tweaking.   DPP seems not bad but in camera great for speed if it works well!