![]() Very conveniently, Helicon Focus offers a 30 day trial with full functionality. After Alex Armitage mentioned it again in a comment under my handheld focus stacking article I had to give it a try. I had already heard of Helicon Focus many years ago but for some reason dismissed it. I needed a more convenient and precise way to piece everything together. Once I had taken the first photos of the chaotic Costa Rican forest in Monteverde, I had enough of manual stacking. For some such photos, the stacking can take me as much as half an hour or even an hour. But especially when it comes to woodland photos it can be tricky to find and combine the sharpest areas. And for most photos, this is a viable option. Acceptably sharp is usually not sharp enough for the large prints I like to sell.īecause of the limitations of Photoshop's automatic stacking algorithm, which often leads to unsharp areas in the final photo that need to be fixed, I usually perform the stacking manually using masks in Photoshop. Using the hyperfocal distance while trying to get everything acceptably sharp with just one photo was always too much of a compromise for me. Click this link to read more.For more than 10 years I've now been stacking my landscape and architecture photos to achieve optimal sharpness from foreground to background. We will be retiring the legacy profile avatars on. : New firmware version 1.6.1 is available for EOS-1DX Mark III : New firmware version 1.0.3.1 is available for EOS-C70 : New firmware version 1.0.1.1 is available for EOS R5 C : We are excited to announce that we have refreshed the ranking scale within the community! ![]() : Keep your Canon gear in optimal condition with a Canon Maintenance Service : New firmware version 1.0.3.1 is available for EOS-C300 Mark III : New firmware version 1.0.5.1 is available for EOS-C500 Mark II ![]() : New firmware version 1.0.3 is available for EOS M50 Mark II : New firmware version 1.3.2 is available for PowerShot G7 X Mark III : Service Notice:UPDATE: Canon Inkjet Printer continuous reboot loop or powering down : New firmware version 1.3.0 is available for PowerShot PICK : New firmware version 1.0.1 is available for CR-X300 : New firmware version 1.1.0 is available for EOS-R10 : New firmware version 1.1.0 is available for EOS-R7 : New firmware version 1.6.0 is available for EOS-R6 : New firmware version 1.6.0 is available for EOS-R5 : New firmware version 1.2.1 is available for EOS-R3 : New firmware version 1.2.0 is available for CR-N 500 : New firmware version 1.2.0 is available for CR-N 300 : New firmware version 1.1.1 is available for RF 70-200mm L IS USM But Helicon Focus supports CR3's from the R5(6), it just doesn't export EXIF data in the finished stack. Helicon Remote doesn't officially support the R5 and R6, so I am running their beta software, which is a bit hit or miss. I'm starting to use the R5 more of late and processing in Helicon Focus. Most of the time I use Helicon for both capturing and processing stacks, but still use the R5 and DPP for smaller stacks. Focus increment is explained, kind of, on page 241 of the R5 manual, actually, it's pretty good at first then they go off a bit, IMHO. The built in stacking of the R5, and other Canon cameras with this feature, is very basic and sometimes the features are poorly explained. This can be slightly corrected in DPP, but it's a long wait to see the outcome if you have a large stack. Wide will move your FP closer to the back of the DOF of the previous FP, so you will start to see some softness. It just depends on what you consider "acceptable" focus as to whether you use Narrow or Wide. A narrow setting will give you a sharper stack, but you may need to take more shots to cover the area you want to capture. IMO, all you can do is experiment or have a very good grasp of how deep your DOF is at a given f/stop and distance, and this applies to macro or landscape. The setting allows you to move your next focal plane closer or farther to/from the previous focal plane (plane of sharpest focus). Sounds like you are getting there, and it is confusing.
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