| Paint it Pink | 07 Apr 2016 9:04 a.m. PST |
Continuing to learn how to get the best out of my new camera and wanting to test how a focus stack would look using a wide-angle lens.
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| Mako11 | 07 Apr 2016 9:37 a.m. PST |
Hmmmm, doesn't really do much for me, but…… |
| Paint it Pink | 07 Apr 2016 9:45 a.m. PST |
I assume you clicked on the link to see more? |
| Mako11 | 07 Apr 2016 10:13 a.m. PST |
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| Paint it Pink | 07 Apr 2016 11:37 a.m. PST |
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| Covert Walrus | 07 Apr 2016 3:43 p.m. PST |
Well, I am impressed – great resolution! And nice work on the minis and diorama :) |
| normsmith | 08 Apr 2016 1:55 a.m. PST |
Nice result, is stacking the compilation of several shots with varying focus points? Does the camera do that automatically? |
| Paint it Pink | 08 Apr 2016 7:42 a.m. PST |
Stacking involves taking several pictures, in this case 25, focused at different points between the nearest point and the farthest. My OMD E-M5MkII has a feature called focus bracketing, which means it controls the focusing of the camera for one. I then put all the images into a program on the computer to compile them into one image. However, the OMD E-M1 has the ability to stack up to eight pictures automatically, and there's a E-M1MkII coming out later in the year, and who knows what magic trickery it will be able to do. I was bought the E-M5MkII because I wanted the 40 megapixel image feature and only found out about the focus bracketing when checking up on what the last firmware upgrade did – found the feature quite by accident. Up to that point I had manually change the focus point on the pictures myself. To say that was a bit of a fag is an understatement, but I was getting good picture, which you can see here: link However, the auto focus bracketing at the cameras base 16 megapixels is sufficiently good that until there's a firmware update to allow focus bracketing in the hi-res 40 megapixel mode I shall be shooting pictures and letting the camera do all the hard work. |
| normsmith | 08 Apr 2016 8:44 a.m. PST |
The auto system sounds really clever, presumably the camera knows the farthest and nearest focus points – it should prove really useful when using a bright lens f2.8 or better close up. In effect allowing you to either get a shallow or deep depth of field from the f2.8 Thanks for explaining. |
 Legion 4   | 08 Apr 2016 11:04 a.m. PST |
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| Paint it Pink | 09 Apr 2016 10:01 a.m. PST |
As I said elsewhere, this camera, and probably others like it, are no longer cameras but computers that take pictures. The distinction is subtle and possibly lost without hands on experience but I speak as a long time photographer from back in the day when film was the only game in town. |
| normsmith | 10 Apr 2016 1:39 a.m. PST |
You mean when I shot everything at ISO 100 :-) And sharing was prints or a slide projector. Hard to believe how so many photographers had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the digital world. EVF's faced a similar uphill climb. We baby sat last night, took a 10 second video of the baby, edited it in the iPad, uploaded to YouTube and my son showed the video to the friends n his phone that they went out to meet – we are already taking all technology of that for granted. |
| Paint it Pink | 10 Apr 2016 7:39 a.m. PST |
ISO 100, surely not. Kodachrome 25. ;-) Yep, Normsmith we live in a world of endless wonder. |
