[Leica] Focus Stacking

[Paul Roark]

FWIW, the fourth image down in this set of images --
https://www.paulroark.com/Paris-Boston.html -- is a shot of Paris from the
towers of Notre Dame (M9 and 35mm lens).  It was focus stacked on the left
and then panned to the right, assembled in Photoshop.

What I do much more frequently than something this complex is a simple
"dual focus", where a close object is a significant part of the
composition.  It gets the first shot, then I move to the infinity stop
(manual M optics) without removing my eye from the camera, using the camera
viewfinder's markings and level, if present, to help keep things aligned.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:09 AM Howard Cummer via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Morning Luggers,
> Jayanand has pointed out privately that the proper term is focus stacking.
> Wash those hands
> Howard
>
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:19:27 -0700
> From: Howard Cummer <hcummer at gmail.com <mailto:hcummer at gmail.com>>
> To: lug at leica-users.org <mailto:lug at leica-users.org>
> Cc: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com <mailto:jayanand at gmail.com>>
> Subject: [Leica] Focus Peaking
>
> Encouraged by Jayanand?s efforts I stepped out on my deck and tried a
> couple of focus peaking landscape shots
> with the Z7 and the kit lens.
>
> Here?s the best one:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada+2020/Pender/DSC_6395FP.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada+2020/Pender/DSC_6395FP.jpg.html>
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada+2020/Pender/DSC_6395FP.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada+2020/Pender/DSC_6395FP.jpg.html
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>
> For comparison here is the same scene a few weeks earlier taken with the
> M10 as a vertical pano:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada+2020/Pender/L1007345-Pano.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada+2020/Pender/L1007345-Pano.jpg.html>
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada+2020/Pender/L1007345-Pano.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada+2020/Pender/L1007345-Pano.jpg.html
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>
> There isn?t a lot of difference except in the corners where the FP frame
> is sharper - check the
> yellow flowers lower right frame.
>
> I think FP has a place in my multi panel panoramas that I like to print
> large on canvas. So I need to get
> out with the tripod, the Z7 and the Leica R28 and get started. Thanks
> Jayanand.
>
> Too bad all the local parks are closed.
>
> Stay well, wash those hands.
>
> Howard.
>
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