With Dean starting to use OM macro gear at high mag on digital back as
well as OM, thought I should post this.
Focus stacking seems to be made for high mag to avoid diffraction, if
the critters permit multiple shots. (Stacking scanned film shots is
doable but the work flow is arduous.)
Combine Z was great free software but has accumulated even more dings.
The pyramid stacking macro won't run in win 7 64 bit (might in a
virtual machine)
The latest thing is that the final stack can't be saved as a tiff as
Microsloth changed something as to how they are handled---what I
haven't a clue.
The jpegs are terribly compressed and don't work well---the workaround
is saving as .bmp but all the metadata is stripped. I just re-entered
it from one of the stacked jpegs with exif-gui in a minute,
but might be a pain for some. Hard to criticize capable free software
but might no longer be worth the learning curve until the author
revises it for 64 bit OS and handling 16 bit files. Last update post
was a couple months ago so
wouldn't envision a final product for many many months. I would say
just use PS to stack or as a dedicated stacking software, Zerene
stacker, looks very good to me. I didn't quite believe the tiff thing
so did a quick stack a bit ago to test and it was true.
http://www.olyendomike.com/Macro/Macro-2014/35815144_mTn4JH#!i=3007221445&k=WT4VKx8&lb=1&s=XL
The mini Phal flowers are about 3/4" in max dimension.
Hand held stack jumping spider series with flash? Mike
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