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Novoflex Castel-L focus rail

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Joseph S Wisniewski Forum Pro • Posts: 35,461
Nice, and a if I can go off topic for a sec...

grsnovi wrote:

Joseph S Wisniewski wrote:

Looking forward to seeing some pics.

First set of shots with Novoflex. 18 image stack of unedited raws in Affinity Photo v2.0.

A good first effort. Things will just keep getting better.

Didn't think about what would happen trying to stack the second hand and its impact on the minute hand, so quick and dirty edits to replace the entire second sweep.

Did you know that the standard in the industry is to stop watches and clocks and set them to 10:10? Apparently, there's some old research that says that this produces a "smile" and makes the watch more appealing.

It goes back to what I keep repeating "every photo is a portrait".

I enjoyed walking the focus highlight up the image as I turned the stage knob manually. I have wondered that moving a focused camera would alter the perspective of each image however I guess to a degree the stacking/merge s/w makes adjustments to accommodate that.

As long as your focus movements are small enough, focus stacking does typically compensate for your perspective shifts. The resultant perspective is "orthographic", like the image was shot from far away with a very long lens. One problem is that anything out of focus in all shots in the stack may get selected from random layers and end up producing strange background "swirls" or "fringing" around in-focus details.

At low magnification, you can also use a bellows and focus by moving the rear standard, a technique known as "bellows draw", and that eliminates perspective shifts that cause fringing. It does cause magnification shifts that make framing a little more difficult.

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The term "mirrorless" is totally obsolete. It's time we call out EVIL for what it is. (Or, if you can't handle "Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens" then Frenchify it and call it "LIVE" for "Lens Interchangeable, Viewfinder Electronic" or "Viseur électronique").
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