You'll notice that the first several images are not spread far apart at all in terms of how deep into the scene the camera must focus. Very close to the lens, things move in and out of focus within just a few cm. ( the dashes are indications of cm or inches, and the X's are where I focus the camera into a scene of a given depth on my layout) Depending on how much variance you impose on it, you begin to get more and more artefacts both around the borders and even inside what should be the nugget part of the image.įor those following this discussion who may want to tackle this process, it's like anything else in life.the more you want to do it, and the more exposure you give yourself, the better at it you get.įocusing, with CZP, goes something like this.for me: I can tell you that you must be quite precise in maintaining a general aiming point between focusing and successive shutter releases, although the programme will accept minor variance. I have no experience with either PShop or Helicon, only with the CZP and earlier M variants. also, where your close corner of the building doesn't seem to be plumb, you have the corner browns disappearing after they get reduced to dots about three-quarters of the way up the corner.
For example, notice the blurred olive green at the very bottom center? That is meant to be cropped. That weird border is chaff and should be discarded.
I see that your right-hand image in the first pair side-by side indicates that you have not cropped the crud from the periphery of the CZM rendering. Rick, I have had a better look than earlier (sorry, I was 'moving along' and couldn't dawdle long enough to be more discerning). The Richlawn Railroad Website - Featuring the L&N in HO / MRH Blog / MRM #123 Is it just me, or does the CombineZM look better - both sharper focus and better colors? Helicon is on the left and CombineZM on the right. Here's the picture outputted by Helicon Focus.Īnd this is the image outputted by CombineZMĪnd finally a screen capture split screen showing both images side by side.
I downloaded the CombineZM software and ran the same pictures through it as I did in Helicon Focus.
Here's a link to a tutorial on the program: where you can go to a link to download the software. Tom Patterson posted to my thread about CombineZM which is a free photo stacking alternative software. I've been experimenting with focus stacking and have a thread here for reference: