Helicon focus reviews manual#
The stamen of a Hibiscus flower, shot at 4.2x magnification with a manual rail. Manual focus sliders are easy to bring into the field and work well enough for magnification ratios up to 5x. Manual focus sliders are quite affordable, but please don’t buy the cheapest one you can find on eBay-the $20 models are constructed quite poorly and have very “wobbly” performance. They also make it easier to execute a consistent step size. One of the big advantages of using manual focusing rails is the avoidance of focus breathing. The final image will only be as large as the smallest layers in the stack. Some lenses change their focal length as you shift focus ( focus breathing) and your final image can only be as large as the smallest image in the stack: All images of a stack need to be aligned and resized before stacking. The downside of this technique is that, depending on your lens, it can require a good amount of cropping. The advantage of this technique is that you won’t need any additional equipment besides your camera and a tripod, so this is perfect if you are just starting out and want to get a feel for it.
Helicon focus reviews full#
This works best in live-view at full zoom or with focus peaking enabled. When it comes to performing a focus stack there are quite a few ways to do it, so let’s have a look! Option 1: Manually shifting focus The basic idea is to mount your camera on a tripod, compose the shot, and then take a sequence of images while slightly shifting focus between shots. Many landscape photographers like using this method to get both their foreground and far background in focus, but it’s especially useful for macro photography. When we merge these images in post processing, we produce one overall sharp image where the whole frame is in focus. HF seems to also have some editing capabilities within the focus stacking process.like if something moves, you can choose which in focus images to use in case it chooses poorly.As the name suggests, focus stacking is a technique where you take multiple photos of the same subject, but at slightly different focusing distances, and “stack” them.
Helicon focus reviews trial#
I also need to shoot a few more varied focus stack images to try while on the trial period.
I did do that route and have several resultant images.and I didn't even yet do ALL the permutations as that HF and Zerene both have multiple algorithms you can choose for processing.Īnyway, still working the experiments. Those small adjustments seemed to be overly amplified somewhat.so, thinking if I can get back close to a RAWimage after stacking with the Helicon app, I might like to go that way.Ĭ1 has a Helicon plug-in that can make the roundtrip seamless.but it only seems to run it as TIFF out and TIFF in.so, not sure how that will work. I tried originally doing some slight sharpness, color ,etc.in Capture One first and exporting out as TIFF files.and running through both focus stacking programs. So far, it appears I like Helicon's ability to work with RAW images in and export DNG (essentially "RAW") images out.I'm working right now to see how much I can push/pull the resultant DNG image in both capture one and On1 RAW. However, it appears there is a LOT of info I need to delve into with Zerene to maybe learn to 'tune' some parameters. Well so far.the Helicon Focus seems to be a bit ahead of the Zerene app for me.
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