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ZERENE FOCUS STACKING SOFTWARE

Methods 1 and 2 were the best of course but if you don’t have a focussing slide, method 2 is fine.

Monopod and change focus plane using the focus ring on the lens in small increments.

Monopod and change focus plane by tilting the monopod in small increments.

Tripod and changes the focus plane using the focus ring on the lens in small increments.

Tripod and focussing slide, change the focus plane by moving camera in small increments.

I took a number of sets of photos, close-up and macro, using different camera supports and focussing methods. Zerene Stacker Costs $89, 30-day trial availableĪffinity Photo Costs £49 and is a fully featured photo editor (cf.

ZERENE FOCUS STACKING SOFTWARE

In this respect not all focus stacking software implementations are equal.įor the purposes of comparison I recently carried out some tests using three different programs.Ĭombine ZP This is free but has not been updated since 2010

The software needs to do the job of determining which parts of each image represent the best focus and then combining these as seamlessly as possible. Suitable image processing software is an important tool in combining focus stacked images. Focus stacking can also be useful in landscape photography” (Wikipedia). Focus stacking can be used in any situation where individual images have a very shallow depth of field close-up & macro photography and optical microscopy are two typical examples. “Focus stacking (also known as focal plane merging and z-stacking or focus blending) is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field (DOF) than any of the individual source images.