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Focus Stacking With My Brand New Sony A7RV

Started 3 months ago | Discussions thread
Gilbert1 Regular Member • Posts: 329
Re: Focus Stacking With My Brand New Sony A7RV

AeroPhotographer wrote:

This is the first Sony camera to offer focus stacking. It arrived yesterday and I immediately tried stacking.

I've never done this with any camera, but found it easy. Before the shot you select the spacing between shots (which is an arbitrary number from 1 to 10) and the maximum number of shots. Tutorials recommend setting a large maximum, like 50 shots. It begins where you focus (nearest spot in the scene) and steps outward until focus reaches infinity and the sequence stops, hopefully short of your maximum.

The rate is about 2 shots per second.

Here is a stack of 20 frames, downsized for sharing. I set the max at 50. It stopped after 25 frames. I discarded the last 5 frames and stacked the first 20.

I first tried stacking in my (favorite) ACDSee editor, but did not succeed. Then I tried Helicon Focus which took less than 30 seconds to merge twenty, 61mp frames.

Interesting. Can you also use Lightroom for focus stacking? Or is it better to use Helicon in this case?

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