not only insects or flowers ...

[gianluigi]

An old watch, using a Canon 5d mkII + autobellow + macro 100mm and a combined multipictures technique

Gianluigi, from Italy

 

[Marsu42]

and a combined multipictures technique

How many shots did you fuse, what original aperture?

 

[gianluigi]

The number of shots appears in the picture name, every figure ("21-22-...") number is a single original picture. The depth of field is so short that a lot of pictures have to be taken with a small change in the manual focus and then to be fused.

 

[gianluigi]

Sorry, the aperture in general was between f8 and f16-f22

 

[Marsu42]

The depth of field is so short that a lot of pictures have to be taken with a small change in the manual focus and then to be fused.

Looks nice, you should really use Magic Lantern Focus Stacking to automate this, and personally for shots like this @f8 (lens peak sharpness) and for 100% crop I have to take 10-20 stacked shots to assemble it w/o out of focus segments.

 

[gianluigi]

Thanks, I didn't know that a dedicated Sw exists for this kind of multipictires. But to be honest I really like programming on my PC, even using "assembly", but I wouldn't like to transform my camera in a computer. But, in any case I'll check the software feature.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

The depth of field is so short that a lot of pictures have to be taken with a small change in the manual focus and then to be fused.

Looks nice, you should really use Magic Lantern Focus Stacking to automate this, and personally for shots like this @f8 (lens peak sharpness) and for 100% crop I have to take 10-20 stacked shots to assemble it w/o out of focus segments.

Another solution is Breeze DSLR Remote which allows scripting to run software to control increments for focus stacking, but your camera must be tethered to a computer.

That's a feature in Magic Lentern that seems useful to me, but I haven't used ML.

I've used combinezm to process stacks of images, but it hasn't been updated for many years so there may be something better.

 

[Marsu42]

That's a feature in Magic Lentern that seems useful to me, but I haven't used ML.

The big disadvantag of the ml software solution (and manual focusing) in comparison to a macro sledge is that the former has to reconstruct data that isn't there since the size of the image changes when focusing - in some cases this will show, esp. when having a object in the foreground occluding the non-bokeh background. Magic Lantern works great for "simple" shots of a tilted plane like this watch.