On 10/16/2020 3:26 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
I have never yet managed a decent macro-landscape stack.
OK, all sorts of things wrong with this picture, camera shadow, eensy breeze moved things, background too much like
foreground for separation, yadda, yadda.
Still, everything in focus, from almost touching the camera to infinity, 25 mm
AoV.
Annnnd, really easy, with the right equipment - Oly TG-4.
The big advantages are a lens and firmware specifically designed to do this.
The disadvantages:
JPEG files. The camera does Raw, but not for stacks.
At any given FL, perhaps shutter speed, brightness, there are only three apertures available. In this bright light, I
got f9, on the tiny sensor, so DoF gave me infinity focus, or close to it. In dimmer circumstances, I got f2.3, and a
soft background, even 6-8' away.
I had distance between focal plane slices set to Normal; there are two other
settings.
Clearly, there is a learning curve to getting settings, subject, etc. optimized. OTOH, a sloppy, quick example, taken in
a few seconds, shows a lot of potential.
I took other shots some time ago, with no attempt or interest in getting a distant background in the frame that may give
more idea of how well the macro focus bracketing works. <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/TG-4_Focus/PC290098.htm>
And <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/TG-4_Focus/PC280034.htm>
And. <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/TG-4_Focus/PC280036.htm>
If I were interested in creating micro-landscapes, I'd get a TG-x. My TG-4 has a 16 MP sensor. For the 5 & 6, they went
to 12 MP. What that may have improved, I don't know.
Easy Way Moose
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