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Can you folk recommend a better tool than Helicon-focus when.....

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areallygrumpyoldsod
areallygrumpyoldsod Senior Member • Posts: 1,042
Can you folk recommend a better tool than Helicon-focus when.....

Can you folk recommend a better tool than Helicon-focus when the lens you are using has significant focus breathing across the nearest to furthest focus point in a stack.

I tried using layers in PS and it did not work either.

The following was a render of a 40 shot stack of a subject at 433mm shot with an X2D-100C and 120/3.5 Macro lens, shot tethered and all focus shifts performed remotely (so there should not have been any movement) and I wasted far to long trying to fix the issues.  I will shoot again from further away to see if I can reduce the issue.

All raw images are imported in to phocus where precisely the same adjustments/settings and lens correction algorithm is applied to all images.

F/9.0 1/160th ISO 64 -- lit by strobe

Some images when shot a little further away (820mm) turned out better.

f/8.0 1/160th ISO 64

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areallygrumpyoldsod
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Re: Can you folk recommend a better tool than Helicon-focus when.....
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ajm057 wrote:

My question was answered on FM -- Helicon Focus has settings in preferences than when changed provides more latitude for the program to correct the images.

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