Focus stacking question

[Numnuts]

I'm told that glycerine is often used instead of water because it drops more slowly.

Thanks clewis, yes if tryed that sometime ago , cant remeber the results but i still have a bottle of the glycerine so will be trying it again.

Did try water yesterday and have to admit it took some time to get the droplet to stay where i wanted it to.

 

[grsnovi]

I added a 30mm MFT lens so I could try stacking in-camera with the gx9. I wasn't sold. I prefer to shoot with my APS-C a65 mounted on a rail on a tripod. I start in front and work my way to the rear watching focus peaking change while I go.

This was done in-camera on the gx9 w/the 30mm Panny macro lens.

• Panasonic - DC-GX9
• LUMIX G MACRO 30mm F2.8
• 30.0 mm
• ƒ/4.5
• 1/160 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 1600

 

[MNE9476]

M5 II can do focus stacking? I thought it was limited to focus bracketing.

 

[Numnuts]

M5 II can do focus stacking? I thought it was limited to focus bracketing.

Hi MNE9476...yes it can, think it was added with the firmware 4.1.

 

[JemRaid]

Hello,
I still use a Panny G2 and use Alan Hadley's Combine ZP software, he's an insect photographer and wrote CZP himself, it's free.

I used it often to photograph my model railways and with manual focus.
Cheers - J

 

[MNE9476]

Hello,
I still use a Panny G2 and use Alan Hadley's Combine ZP software, he's an insect photographer and wrote CZP himself, it's free.
View attachment 3026

I used it often to photograph my model railways and with manual focus.
Cheers - J

At first I thought it was a HDR of a real trainyard. The edge of the roofs gave it away. Really cool shot.

 

[JemRaid]

At first I thought it was a HDR of a real trainyard. The edge of the roofs gave it away. Really cool shot.

Thanks for that Mark, I just used Curves for the edit.
I operated it from the rear and had to lean over the back scene to do the coupling/uncoupling
Cheers - J