#Helicon focus stacking tube software
#Helicon focus stacking tube trial
#Helicon focus stacking tube series

Img_1490exif.txt:Focus Distance Upper : 0.53 m It seems to me that the number of shots needed and the spacing needed varies a lot from one object to another.

#Helicon focus stacking tube series

I used the Canon app on my cell phone to do the initial focus and begin the series of shots.

The lens is one from the recommended list in the DPP manual. I placed an object closer to the camera than the object I wished to photograph focused on that for the initial image and later cropped it from the photo. This illustrates the focus distances chosen by the camera. I experimented with focus stacking a few times. Skip ahead to the 2 minute mark or even a bit further. But I know that some photographers like Michael Breitung (check out his YouTube channel) don't seem to mind taking a series of 100 shots when focus bracketing with the R5 and waiting for ages for their computer to process the shots. Personally I don't do macros and prefer to do my focus stacking manually for landscapes using my experience with depth of field. The only way to find out what works with landscapes or macros is to experiment. What doesn't seem to be documented anywhere is how big or how small the increments are or if the size of the increments gets bigger during a sequence as the camera is focussing further into the scene and therefore has a greater depth of field for each shot. The focus increment is how much further into the scene the camera will focus before taking the next shot. Once you start your focus bracketing the camera will keep taking photographs until it's focussed on 'infinity' or until the it's taken the number of shot specified. If you're talking about the focus increment, the smaller the better.įocus on the closest thing in the image. If you're talking about number of shots, the more the better. In order to get fewer out of focus shots, should I increase from the default 4? Thank you. If you have any photos in that group that are tack sharp corner to corner, then there was no reason to focus bracket them other than to be sure you nailed the focus in at least one shot (much as we might bracket exposures), and then there is no reason to stack them using Helicon or Photoshop. Similarly if you examine the ones that appear to be in focus at 100% you should find areas that are out of focus, and these areas should correspond fairly closely to the in-focus areas of your out-of-focus shots. If you view those that appear out of focus at 100% you should find some areas in each that actually are in focus. It's not surprising that some of the images are somewhat out of focus, that's why you need to stack them. So if they stack very well in Helicon, then you probably are doing everything correctly. That would be why some of the images straight out of the camera appear to be in focus while others don't.

#Helicon focus stacking tube software

The stacking of the bracketed images does not occur in the camera you have to use software like Helicon for Photoshop to stack the bracketed images. I'm sorry if the next thing I say is obvious, but I don't know how familiar you are with focus bracketing in the R5.

#Helicon focus stacking tube trial

Unfortunately there is very little if any information about the correct settings to use it comes down to trial and error. It may also be that you're configuring focus bracketing incorrectly in the camera. So if your focus stacking is fine when you use Helicon that would suggest that whatever other software you were using doesn't do focus stacking very well and that there is nothing wrong with the bracketed images taken by the R5.ģ. I don't use it myself, and while I know its very good for focus stacking, I didn't know it could sharpen images as well. I must have misunderstood what you're saying about Helicon. For example the EF 24-70 F4 L IS USM is supported but the EF 24-105 F4 L IS II USM is not.Ģ. I think all the RF lenses are supported and many but not all EF lenses are. Check the Canon site to find out which lenses are supported for focus bracketing and which are not. I would very much appreciate if someone can please help. When I put it into Helicon it comes out sharp. I was using a tripod and remote with IS off. I was using the default setting and I don't know why this is happening. I find that, for example, out of 5 images, only 1 or 2 are tack sharp and the rest are completely out of focus.

I just started to try the focus stacking mode on the R5.