Digital BW, The Print

Ernst Dinkla <edinkla@...> wrote:
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> >...
> > http://www.paulroark.com/Dual-Focus-Focus-Stacking.pdf

 
> Group f/64 must be turning simultaneously in their grave :-)
> 
> I wondered about the focusing sequence with a hand held camera, your 
> method solves that.

The idea was to be able to do it very quickly and without removing the eye from the camera.  Still, fast moving objects, like this pelican -- http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Pelican-Catalina-3-2011.jpg -- are a problem.  The pelican shot was 50mm f/11 (and is un-sharpened).  I had to fill in a few spots with background cloning around the edge of the bird. 

While I was being lazy and using 3-frame auto-bracketing with auto-exposure, be better approach is to set the exposure manually first.  That avoids the lag time of the bracketing.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com