Focus Stacking

[Brooklands]

My new OM-1 has a feature of focus stacking. The camera takes 8 shots with slightly different focus points and in a few seconds stacks them all on the sensor, aligns them for my hand shake, and then makes the 9th image which appears to be sharp with great depth of field. I am also enjoying using this on my HO scale layout.

 

[DrEntropy]

I am also enjoying using this on my HO scale layout.

You should put some of those here, Dave!

 

[GregW]

Does the camera choose the focus points for a pleasing finished shot? Or do you wind up with some "what the heck?" moments. I've only done focus stacking once with Darktable (manual focus). That particular shot looked better without the stack.

 

[Brooklands]

I choose a starting point, and then the camera chooses 7 more focusing in front and behind my choice. I am still learning how it works best. And then I also have all 8 shots in RAW and .jpg and the finished stack in .jpg.

 

[Brooklands]

Here is one of my layout where not everything is in focus, but much more than with a single focus point.

 

[Brooklands]

 

[Brooklands]

And a third of the farm...

 

[DrEntropy]

The last two are particularly good considering the scale and your distance away. Curious about focal length(s).

And where in the world did you find an AMC Gremlin to scale?!?

 

[Brooklands]

The last two are particularly good considering the scale and your distance away. Curious about focal length(s).

And where in the world did you find an AMC Gremlin to scale?!?

I do not remember where I bought the Gremlin...probably Walthers Hobby. As for the focal length...these three photos were between 21mm and 26mm.

 

[Basil]

That's a cool feature. When I do focus stacking it's a much more tedious process.

 

[Brooklands]

This was one of my only times I used the feature in England. I should have when walking the track at Brooklands, but I was so excited to be on the 1907 concrete, that I completely forgot about the new camera features.

 

[Basil]

The newest Canon Mirrorless cameras (R6, R5, R6 Mark II, etc) has focus stacking but they call it Focus Bracketing. My next camera will most likely be an R6 Mark II and this is a feature I am looking forward to trying out with landscape photography.