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Lichen-In-Camera Image Stacking-Easy and lots of fun

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Gary from Seattle Veteran Member • Posts: 7,852
Re: Lichen-In-Camera Image Stacking-Easy and lots of fun
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Chris DC wrote:

Definitely a handy feature!

you can also try differing focus spots and this speeds choices for later stacking.

I typically shoot 4-6 sets with at least a couple of them with a slightly different range of focus, because one often does not know what will look best. I also use a 2 second self timer to assure stability.

As to quality, the ICFS are very good though it may be that a larger set of bracketed images may yield slightly better results, but is more work if you shoot lots of images. Sometimes I get ghosting on parts of the images that are just outside of the precise focus range. I believe those come from the position of the lenses as the focus is changed in a stack. Mostly, though the images are very good. Mosses are tough if not set against some background as moss on moss images don't have much for the camera to obtain an image through subject diffentiation - almost no color or contrast differentiation.

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