20 image focus stack

  • Salamander@mander.xyzEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Very cool! Are you using a rail to move the camera? Changing the focus through the lens? Moving while handheld? Curious about your process. I also like to experiment with focus stacking

    • Tempus Fugit@midwest.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I didn’t use a rail. I may do that in the future as macro lenses are really expensive and I can buy a manual one for about 50% of the cost of an autofocus lens. For now I’m using a cheap kit lens with a pseudo macro function and 26mm of extension tubes. The lens I used here was the Olympus 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 EZ which is an autofocus lens. I mounted the camera to a tripod for this shot. I’m a cheapskate so all editing was done using open source (darktable and PetteriAimonen / focus-stack) software.

      I’m quite new to all of this and having a blast tinkering around to see what works.

      • Salamander@mander.xyzEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I have been using RawTherapee + enfuse, and I am curious to try out darktable + focus-stack.

        • Magpie@mander.xyzMEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I will need to look into RawTherapee for stacking, I tried to figure out Darktable but was a bit much for my brain. I used to just use CombineZP but I’ve switch just about all my computers to linux and have to dualboot into windows to use that program unfortunately.