Hi, I also use the D850 for landscapes. I use a step-width of 4 and shoot usually @ f/11 and get great results. I never noticed any softness in my results. I did have issues using Photoshop to stack the images.I tried a new software called Helicon Focus and it corrected the problem I was having with Photoshop. Using a higher f-stop with a greater depth of field allowing the over lap greatly improves your xhange of a sharp image from front to back.
I have noticed that if you don’t import the photos but have helicon focus to import directly from the card it is much quicker. Then you just import the one photo that has been rendered.
Thanyfor the response, the D850 is an awesome piece of kit and learning its capabilities has been a fun challenge that is WIP ...... I need to revisit my 'focus shifting' trials for both landscape and macro
Did you load all 250 images into Helicon Focus? Were they RAW? I just started playing with this. I have the d850, Nikon 105mm lens, and am exporting the RAW files from Lightroom directly to the latest version of Helicon Focus, but I get a memory warning and it never finishes the processing. My efforts were with between 50 & 100 images. From this info can someone tell me what I may be doing wrong? With Landscape it appears you need less images. Any thoughts? With regard to your landscape example, I believe the focal plane was beyond those trees.
Thankyou for the video - very helpful I have recently purchased the D850 (having upgraded from a D300) and its an amazing beast, I understand the concept however I am struggling to get my head around the manner in which the D850 implements focus stacking. By which I mean the correlation between the step size and the number of steps (and why the heck does it try to continue to infinity if you are in a macro environment and only need 50mm (2") of focus in say 2mm (1/16") steps ?? (I guess that's one for Nikon ....)
I suspect that the D850 is simply incremental i.e. it increments focus by a calculated distance based on an algorithm rather than focussing on an object as a photographer would ...... only Nikon could answer that
250 photos is to much for object 3cm......105mm/f3.5/80cm distance are 1mm DOF.........you don,t need more than 60 pictures. by landscape 24mm/f5.6/ 1m distance focal.......you need 5 pictures til infinity.
Memory is cheap these days so the number of shots is pretty subjective. For me, it's better to have more than I need so that I have them just in case rather than to not have a shot I need to fill in every square inch of the finished image with tack sharp focus. So the way I see it, why risk short changing yourself when the capability is there?
Most exciting feature on this camera. Love it!
Hi, I also use the D850 for landscapes. I use a step-width of 4 and shoot usually @ f/11 and get great results. I never noticed any softness in my results. I did have issues using Photoshop to stack the images.I tried a new software called Helicon Focus and it corrected the problem I was having with Photoshop. Using a higher f-stop with a greater depth of field allowing the over lap greatly improves your xhange of a sharp image from front to back.
Thanks Rick for the info, I will test that out.
I have noticed that if you don’t import the photos but have helicon focus to import directly from the card it is much quicker. Then you just import the one photo that has been rendered.
Thanyfor the response, the D850 is an awesome piece of kit and learning its capabilities has been a fun challenge that is WIP ...... I need to revisit my 'focus shifting' trials for both landscape and macro
Did you load all 250 images into Helicon Focus? Were they RAW? I just started playing with this. I have the d850, Nikon 105mm lens, and am exporting the RAW files from Lightroom directly to the latest version of Helicon Focus, but I get a memory warning and it never finishes the processing. My efforts were with between 50 & 100 images. From this info can someone tell me what I may be doing wrong? With Landscape it appears you need less images. Any thoughts?
With regard to your landscape example, I believe the focal plane was beyond those trees.
Seems like 50 to 100 RAW files would overload the program. What did you find out?
You need more RAM.
Thankyou for the video - very helpful
I have recently purchased the D850 (having upgraded from a D300) and its an amazing beast, I understand the concept however I am struggling to get my head around the manner in which the D850 implements focus stacking. By which I mean the correlation between the step size and the number of steps (and why the heck does it try to continue to infinity if you are in a macro environment and only need 50mm (2") of focus in say 2mm (1/16") steps ?? (I guess that's one for Nikon ....)
Yes, that one is for Nikon. I may do some more testing so I can know what options to use in different scenarios.
Thanks for the video, my question can you tethering the stacking direct to computer?
Haven’t tried that.. Shooting mainly with Sony now so I probably won’t be testing that.
Yes 250 raw files were exported into Helicon focus. I am not familiar with that particular error you are referring to.
Could be a hardware limitation.
Thank you very much
You are welcome
What makes you choose 25 shots and 5 focus steps?
I thought it would be the right amount for that particular image and the depth of the scene
I suspect that the D850 is simply incremental i.e. it increments focus by a calculated distance based on an algorithm rather than focussing on an object as a photographer would ...... only Nikon could answer that
I can't find it in the menu. Good video.
Affinity- SO MUCH BETTER FOR STACKING !!!!!
Did you really needed that many photos in your macro photography, to me it seems over kill if there is minor changes.
The purpose of the video was to show the capability of the camera, and some folks want their images to be as sharp as possible.
Thanks!!
Counting down the number of shots left should have been flipped.
Well done!
Thank you very much Garry!
250 photos is to much for object 3cm......105mm/f3.5/80cm distance are 1mm DOF.........you don,t need more than 60 pictures. by landscape 24mm/f5.6/ 1m distance focal.......you need 5 pictures til infinity.
marcus de roos I was demonstrating the capabilities of the camera
@@stevecookphotography ok but your question was olso why the last pictures are blurry
OK, yes, I see what you are saying. Thanks for your input. I want to do some more testing.
Memory is cheap these days so the number of shots is pretty subjective. For me, it's better to have more than I need so that I have them just in case rather than to not have a shot I need to fill in every square inch of the finished image with tack sharp focus. So the way I see it, why risk short changing yourself when the capability is there?