Digital BW, The Print

Paul,
   I have been doing focus stacking for 15 years.  I started doing it manually, of course, before the term was coined.  The first program I purchased was Helicon Focus.  Then I upgraded to the Pro version.  Recently ( a year ago) I purchased Zerene.  It works better than Helicon, almost no haloing, better color fidelity, less cropping for the composited image, and more forgiving of variations in exposures.  Its only drawback for me is that it averages 4 seconds per image and Helicon is 2 seconds per image.  Since I rarely go beyond 20 that is not a deal breaker for me.

BertGF

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <roark.paul@...> wrote:
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> It was inevitable that people would find a way to automate this.  Now Canon has to do so internally and quickly enough to do hand held.
> 
> It looks like there is a free software package for merging the focus stacks.  I'm still doing it manually for the most part.  I'll give that free software a try on one of my recent stacks and see how it works.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla <edinkla@> wrote:
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> > On 04/01/2011 09:16 PM, Ernst Dinkla wrote:
> > >
> > > A kind of bracketing for the focus shift would be a nice feature for
> > > this. Setting the first focus and the steps to infinity done
> > > automatically for the next frames.
> > 
> > Paul,
> > 
> > Getting back to this; there are some remote solutions to control 
> > focusing on DSLRs usually a USB connection is needed. For example:
> > http://www.breezesys.com/DSLRRemotePro/features.htm
> > http://www.okii.net/product_p/ct-001.htm?1=1&CartID=0
> > 
> > With more remote controllers/software available including iPhone and 
> > Android versions I think focus bracketing could be added to the software 
> > features if not available already.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Met vriendelijke groeten,   Ernst
> > 
> > Try: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wide_Inkjet_Printers/
> > 
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