Dahlia after a morning rain
This is a handheld nine shot focus bracket merged in Photoshop. The Olympus E-M1 Mk ll's image stabilization is good enough and it fires fast enough to do this, though the implementation of shot spacing and number of shots needs to be rethought by Olympus's engineers. Currently they allow you to enter the number of shots and a number that is vaguely related to shot spacing. You then select the closest point you want in focus and fire away, hoping you have guessed right. This one came out alright. Others have not. If you change the lens, the f stop, the subject, the distance etc, you have to start over again. The camera has enough info to calculate depth of field. It would seem that a better scheme would be to focus on the near and far locations and let the camera figure out the shots. It's not complicated math. It was all worked out on slide rules a hundred years ago.
Dahlia after a morning rain
This is a handheld nine shot focus bracket merged in Photoshop. The Olympus E-M1 Mk ll's image stabilization is good enough and it fires fast enough to do this, though the implementation of shot spacing and number of shots needs to be rethought by Olympus's engineers. Currently they allow you to enter the number of shots and a number that is vaguely related to shot spacing. You then select the closest point you want in focus and fire away, hoping you have guessed right. This one came out alright. Others have not. If you change the lens, the f stop, the subject, the distance etc, you have to start over again. The camera has enough info to calculate depth of field. It would seem that a better scheme would be to focus on the near and far locations and let the camera figure out the shots. It's not complicated math. It was all worked out on slide rules a hundred years ago.