@catrelaxationtechnique4466 I will never buy a Sony camera. The company's strange policy makes their product not as future-proof as Nikon/Canon...! Better buy Nikon Z8 than A1
It is incredible that this system is handled better by the Mynoltas. They already invented this since the 2016 versions. If you are going to buy this camera for this section, I suggest that you go for the Mynolta that costs 4 times less.
At last a Sony with focus stacking! Years of waiting. Hope it trickles into the older bodies as well (A1. A7 IV). Why did it take so long to implement is beyond me
@@andrebauer777 yes, I updated about 2 hours ago, tested it. It works. Will do some proper testing outdoors in the morning if I can. Update took about 3 mins.
You can open it up directly into Ps by going to "File --> Script---> Open files into stack and, after the combining process, save it and then process the final photo in Lr.
Thank you for this video 🙏. I was out shooting with my new A7R5 yesterday to test the photo stacking, but was not able to get it to work. The "infinity" distance was all blurry. After watching your video, I changed the number of pictures from 4 to 50 and it worked like a dream 😊.
This is one of the best practical tutorials I have seen. Thanks so much for all this valuable information and how to do it. I am going to follow every step.
Very nice!!!! Of course Olympus has done it for years and even combine the images in camera for you, if you'd like. But glad Sony is doing it now. Canon and Nikon, time to learn it too!
Hi, Albert! (Linda Henderson of Iceland trip 2/2024 with Gary and Don). I just purchased my a7R5 this weekend and am spending time fixing all of my camera settings and preferences! Thanks for this video and I look forward to trying out the in-camera focus-stacking. Be well.
Lenses used to have a DOF scale on them. A DOF scale is a good way to show folks that a wide angle lens plus F11 or F16 means that everything from about 1 m out is in focus. Back in the film days photo journalists would often have a 35mm lens set at F11 or F16 with the focus taped or glued from 1m - then they just had to point and shoot. Plus for newspaper photos, who cared if you could golf with the grain (noise) in the photo. Great tutorial video. I am glad that Sony is finally offering in camera focus stacking. I wonder if focus stacking could be combined with pixel shift. I wish that my A1 had in camera focus stacking. So many great A7R V features, focus stacking, pixel shift, insect AF - I guess I will have to get this camera soon.
@@EH-pm1ke I know, I'm saying you can take multiple pixel shift series and manually adjust the exposure for each series before you press the shutter. Combine the pixel shifts first, then combine those to get an exposure bracketed shot. Difficult to do in the field depending on the environment, but workable.
Thank you so much for this wonderful video. I just got the A7RV and wasn't sure how to use the brilliant new focus stacking feature. This gave me an answer. Hope to see more videos like this and see five to the article on your website.
Photoshop works okay if the foreground is smooth and not too busy, if you have leaves, bushes or anything with complex depth, it's better to use dedicated focus stack software such as zerene.
Thanks for the info! I had a Canon that did this in-camera, but switched to Sony last year and really missed it. It seems that even my old Sony A6600 has this feature and I didnt know it!
Thank you for the help! Couldn't find the answer to this question within Sony Imaging Edge or Adobe Photoshop's help manuals. Everyone seems to suck at search tools, but Google. lol
I shoot jewelry with an A7IV, and Laowa 90mm macro, manual lens, aperture at F11, and flash. I take between 10 - 20 shots, to get all parts of the metal ring, & gems in focus by moving the focus point, punching in with the magnifier button on the camera, and manually adjusting the focus on the lens. Will this new function of the A7RV be able to automate this for me using my manual lens, or will i need the Sony 90mm autofocus macro lens?
@AlbertDrosPhotography, it's nice Sony finally implemented the focus shift mode. It is also nice now you can shoot more than 30 sec in the bulb timer. 2 of the most handy features for landscape/nightscape photography that Sony missing in years. HOWEVER, why Sony doesn't let you shoot focus shift more than 30 sec? When you shoot landscape or astro landscape at night. You can't focus your subject unless you shine lights onto it. But in most cases, you don't want to do that at night for many reasons. I thought the focus shift shooting could solve this problem brilliantly in the dark environment. All you needed to do is to focus the ground right in front of you and let the camera taking care of the rest without actually shine the lights to focus on the main subject that is far away from you. Unfortunately it's not the case. Because Sony won't allow me to shoot more than 30 sec in the dark with focus shift mode. And we all know 30sec is not good enough to get a noise free or low noise photo when you shoot nightscape. What a shame. I believe Nikon and Canon already had this feature working in the dark environment flawlessly. I hope Sony will add this in their future firmware updates.
Does the A7RV allow a speedlite flash on the hot shoe to fire when focus bracketing? If so it would be an interesting camera for insect photography with the 61mp sensor and the 90mm macro, especially for being able to crop in so much.
I had to look up for your website (does not show in your RUclips bios). Your pics are amazing. Hopefully I can attend one of your workshops in the future.
Albert, Thank you for great video. Tell me please, what kind of camera strap do you use? Your camera strap doesn't look like the strap that came with Sony A7RV.
Hey there! I am looking for some insight or advice on a lens to use with sony that does well with macro and landscapes! What should I consider looking for a lens that works really well with both of these types of photography. Do you have any videos about this?
Thanks for the video, I just tested it out and my Sony a7rV recorded the images at two different resolutions. I've done a search but haven't found an explanation for why. Have you experienced this? Could it be my cards are too slow? Thnaks David
На Sony a7r5 с ее разрешением 60 МPix дифракция света на матрице начинается уже на диафрагмах от f/5.6. О каких f/14 может идти речь? Вы не объединяли pixel shift с focus staking?
Great video! Anyone find a similarly great tutorial on Exposure Bracketing? I imagine they're similar, but as a noob I can use all the tutorials I can get.
Thank you so much for this video! Will this still work ok if you edit the raw images before bringing them into photoshop. I prefer to make most of my adjustments to the RAW images first. As long as you don't crop or change lens compensations etc should it work ok?
Great video mate 👍 Slightly off topic question... Do you turn the IBIS and/or lens stabilisation when using troop and focus stacking, especially for long exposures? Thank you!
The focus stacking does not always focus to infinity. Please pass this to Sony engineers. Digilloyd said Sony focus Stacking is broken. Mark Galer replied this to my comment about failure to focus to infinity: " I think this feature can best be described as ‘work in progress’"
Great video - thanks for the video, but how did you open the RAW files in LR Classic ? It seems that the A7Rv RAW isn’t supported yet ? What magic did you do ?
Hello Albert What would be your 1 lens choice if you had to shoot wildlife bronze art and taxidermy art at a very high level. I will be buying the Sony 7rv. But I am honestly not sure what lens or 2 would be the very best lens for the project? 5:30
Albert I love that you're wearing the jacket from November's Iceland Photo Camp! I've gotten my hands on a Sony A7RV and am looking forward to exploring all these new features - and your videos! What about using Luminar NEO to process the focus stack images?
Hi DAlbert, I'm struggling to connect A7RV to the computer for shooting products. I can't connect to image edge, smartshooter4, or zoom. I'm using the same settings as I did fir the A7rIV. Any help is appreciated.
Good to see this is now possible in the new A7R5. What about the A7R4? How did you do this before A7R5 came out? Just manually switching focus points? Hope this will also come in new firware for A7R4.
If you are just interested in 4K video, I would go with the a7S III. With 12.9 MP, it is 4K without all that downraezng that would be required with the a7R V and its 61MP sensor. A frame of 4K uses 8MP. The a7R V has 61MP. You don't need that for any video. The a7R V camera is more a hybrid. It is a photo camera that does video. The a7 S III is a video camera that does photos.
I want this feature so bad. Ugh, anyway, if they could only add live exposure compositions to do light painting shots, I would be completely sold on a7r5
I was trying out my Sony A7RV with the 70-200 mm G F/4 OSS II lens to give macro photography a try to see if I really enjoy this genre before I make any investments in more macro gears.. I tried focus bracketing and set it as 2 with maximum shots at 70 and the camera keeps shooting till it reaches the maximum 70 shots. I was expecting it to stop shooting before it reaches 70 shots as it would have captured enough focussed images for focus stacking. I also tried testing it by setting it to 3 and then to 4, and also on both occasions, the camera also took up to 70 shots which I knew that for my just a flower image, the shots taken by the camera were far more than were required for focus stacking. Can you please how to resolve this issue? Any advice or help would be much appreciated. Many thanks!
Set it to 7 or 8 and put a maximum of 20 shots or so. The 'problem' you're describing is very normal. You have to realize that the camera will keep shooting until it reaches infinity focus. That means if you focus somewhere close on your flower and set it to 2, it will shoot a bunch of shots where your flower has different focus points, but it will keep shooting beyond that (obviously) until it reaches infinity focus, which is WAY behind your flower. So to prevent that, simply set a much lower number of shots. You don't focus stacking to infinity for a flower macro shot. That's something you only do with your wide angle shots for landscapes.
Hello Albert, First of all, I love your pictures! Then regarding to this feature you have in the A7RIV, do you know if Sony has implemented this in the Sony A7iv as well ?
Olympus (em system) do this focus stacking more easily and do AUTOMATICALLY in body the assembling process and give you directly the result without the need of Photoshop ! If you are not satisfied there is the olympus free software enabling to do a select assembling
Very good job as always, I'm thinking of investing in this camera and in a sigma 105 mm dg dn art macro lens, that's why the focus stacking option is really welcome in my opinion. What do you think of this combo for the macro? I think that with high definition it is possible to crop without too much loss of quality or by using the super 35mm mode it is possible to be even closer on certain subjects. Thanks ;)
Great job as usual .. watched this video for the 3rd time your workflow is fantastic .. I would like to know if you have done some focus bracketing with telephoto lenses and with cameras that don’t have this feature .. like A7R IV .. in general how big is The difference between wide-angle lens is and telephoto lenses? How many images should I take at 400mm with 100-400 for example at 5.6 .. it’s pretty shallow DOF at that range and aperture ? Or should I use PhotoPills and calculate DOF and then decide .. I would like to hear your advice :) thanks
Thank you. With telephoto lenses it gets tricky doing it manual. You will want to use a narrow aperture of at least f/14 for that. If you're shooting at f/5.6 with 100-400 you're never gonna get it right. You would require 50+ shots , and doing that manually is difficult.
I have a new sony A7R5 body. Im a new sony A7 user. Im using a Sigma MC-11 to adapt canon aps-c lens. Im trying to perform focus stacking and getting the following error message, "invalid with this lens" error. The "step width" and the "number of shots" are also grayed out. I also get the error message "this function is currently disabled". I also used a canon prime lens and still get the same error message " invalid with this lens". I have also turned on/off aps-c mode and still get an error message. Or you can only use sony native lens in order to use this feature. Thanks in advance for taking the time to respond.
Mooie video, duidelijk uitgelegd. Meteen uitgeprobeerd met mijn Sigma macro 105 lens, helaas blijft alleen het ingestelde focus punt scherp en gebeurt er verder niets Werkt het alleen met Sony lensen.dat zou wel heel erg jammer zijn
Thank you very much, great video! I love my sony A1 and the lens selection but frankly their lack of substantial/meaningful firmware updates is embarrassing! Even for their "Flagship camera". Focus breathing compensation came out with A7SIII (OCT 2020)and still not available for the A1!!!! So I don't see this function making its way to other models. Also $1200 CF express type A card is disgusting!!!!!
Don't worry you can buy a heavily sanctioned A7RV, because your A1 is now too old. Then you can buy A1 mkII which will cost at this rate £9000 and so on.
Could you clarify things please, you said regarding focus stacking that the A7RV starts stacking from the nearest select af point and then just keeps going until infinity is reached, for macro work at 1 to 1 magnification wouldn't this then mean a huge amount of wasted frames as at 1/1 infinity is an extremely long way away. Please let me know as I've been thinking about switching to a Fuji XT-4/5 whereby you simply select the nearest and furthest distances for front to back sharpness of your subject and the camera then automates the entire process and terminates the bracket when the furthest selected point is reached. Very Nice
You are very right. But you can also select a maximum number of shots. Or simply stop it when you see the focus is already far past the subject regarding macro.
Albert, the 7RV isn't being released here in the U.S. for another week. After seeing your video I might put off my 7IV purchase ! Boring question, Many people have expressed what a hassle these huge 61MP files are. Larger memory cards, slower file loading into your computer etc. I'm coming from 42MP. camera which seemed crazy big enough. Can you comment on your experience with these concerns. Thanks
Hi Ed! That's interesting. The A7RIV also has 61 mp and is already on the market for 3+ years so the 61 MP of the A7RV is really nothing new :) . 61MP is really nothing crazy, but if 42MP is crazy big enough for you, then the higher megapixel might not be for you. The A7RV is really about all the functions and not so much about the megapixel count (as I said, its the same as the previous model). But regarding machine and handling the files, I didn't notice lots of difference between the 42MP and the 61MP when I started using the 61 megapixel files a few years ago. The easiest way is simply download some raw files (of the A7RIV, they're almost the same) and try them on your computer :)
@@AlbertDrosPhotography thank you for thoughtful response. I agree it’s about the functions of the camera. Just weighing the burden of higher files. Love that 3D look of some of your photos ! Close focused foreground all the way through the scene.
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Hey, can You please check there is possibility to make focus stacking with silent shutter mode (electronic shutter) - and make it more faster ? i want to use this option for macro photography. Olympus has this option, but i want to use FF body. Thanks in advance for reply
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Thank you for explaining focus stacking. I never really understood it, how it worked, or why I should use it until watching your vid.
welcome Derrick!
Great video! It would be great if Sony would update their other cameras' firmware to support this.
Then you wouldn't buy the new camera.
The Canon R6 Mark ii does this particular function much better. It will even produce the combined focus stacked image on the camera as well.
@catrelaxationtechnique4466 I will never buy a Sony camera. The company's strange policy makes their product not as future-proof as Nikon/Canon...! Better buy Nikon Z8 than A1
@@Notagain640 This is true. Focus stacking on R6ii is miles ahead of A7rV
It is incredible that this system is handled better by the Mynoltas. They already invented this since the 2016 versions. If you are going to buy this camera for this section, I suggest that you go for the Mynolta that costs 4 times less.
Excellent tutorial. This function is in the a6700 also and I'm eager to try it out. This explained it perfectly - thanks!
awesome!
Thank you Albert,
You are a great instructor, easy to understand for a rookie.
thank you!
At last a Sony with focus stacking! Years of waiting. Hope it trickles into the older bodies as well (A1. A7 IV). Why did it take so long to implement is beyond me
Still hasn't on a7iv, I'm on 2.01 firmware.
@@mtbboy1993 Apparently it's been released to the a7iv now!
@@jacksutherland105 You are right, it did in V4.
Focus bracketing. Stacking is still with external tool. Not inside the camera unfortunetely. But good that the IV got it now via update
@@andrebauer777 yes, I updated about 2 hours ago, tested it. It works. Will do some proper testing outdoors in the morning if I can. Update took about 3 mins.
You can open it up directly into Ps by going to "File --> Script---> Open files into stack and, after the combining process, save it and then process the final photo in Lr.
Is the sharpness same as using Helicon
I was looking for a comment like this, I knew there must be a simpler method. Thanks.
Finally I learned how to do it not only in theory but in practice! Thank you! Quite informative and with no blah-blah-blah.
welcome!
Thank you for this video 🙏. I was out shooting with my new A7R5 yesterday to test the photo stacking, but was not able to get it to work. The "infinity" distance was all blurry. After watching your video, I changed the number of pictures from 4 to 50 and it worked like a dream 😊.
perfect, so with 4 you were simply not at infinity yet :)
Great Video brotha! I learned a lot and now I know what Focus Bracketing is! Thank you!
Thanks Albert. I received this camera a week ago, I will try all your advice this weekend.
This is one of the best practical tutorials I have seen. Thanks so much for all this valuable information and how to do it. I am going to follow every step.
you're very welcome!
Very nice!!!! Of course Olympus has done it for years and even combine the images in camera for you, if you'd like. But glad Sony is doing it now. Canon and Nikon, time to learn it too!
Maanden gezocht naar een duidelijk verhaal. Nu gevonden. Heel erg bedankt!
Hi, Albert! (Linda Henderson of Iceland trip 2/2024 with Gary and Don). I just purchased my a7R5 this weekend and am spending time fixing all of my camera settings and preferences! Thanks for this video and I look forward to trying out the in-camera focus-stacking. Be well.
Awesome Linda! If you have any other questions please let me know!
You're officially my favourite Dutch photographer 😎
Lenses used to have a DOF scale on them. A DOF scale is a good way to show folks that a wide angle lens plus F11 or F16 means that everything from about 1 m out is in focus.
Back in the film days photo journalists would often have a 35mm lens set at F11 or F16 with the focus taped or glued from 1m - then they just had to point and shoot. Plus for newspaper photos, who cared if you could golf with the grain (noise) in the photo.
Great tutorial video. I am glad that Sony is finally offering in camera focus stacking. I wonder if focus stacking could be combined with pixel shift. I wish that my A1 had in camera focus stacking. So many great A7R V features, focus stacking, pixel shift, insect AF - I guess I will have to get this camera soon.
For goodness sakes, why doesn't Sony upgrade the A1 firmware to include all the new features? It's their FLAGSHIP, Christ's sake!!!!
You can’t combine bracketing with pixel shift 😢
@@EH-pm1ke You can, but you have to do it by hand, and it's pretty much impossible to do outside of studio conditions.
You can’t use the focus bracketing feature with pixelshift on. It greys it out in the menu.
@@EH-pm1ke I know, I'm saying you can take multiple pixel shift series and manually adjust the exposure for each series before you press the shutter.
Combine the pixel shifts first, then combine those to get an exposure bracketed shot. Difficult to do in the field depending on the environment, but workable.
Finally a wake up from Sony after a long sleep … ?
Sony please add focus bracketing to the A7IV!
Thank you so much for this wonderful video. I just got the A7RV and wasn't sure how to use the brilliant new focus stacking feature. This gave me an answer. Hope to see more videos like this and see five to the article on your website.
Thanks Helge. I indeed noticed quite some people had questions, so I'm happy to see it was useful for you :)
Nice feature, unfortunately it's not built in A7IV. With my old Fuji X-T2 I shot landscapes with focus stacking even handheld and result is very good.
Great Video!
Thanks for the explanation.
I only hope there is new firmware upgrade for A7 iv...
Dank je Albert voor de duidelijke bruikbare uitleg 👌, ga met deze informatie aan de slag
Photoshop works okay if the foreground is smooth and not too busy, if you have leaves, bushes or anything with complex depth, it's better to use dedicated focus stack software such as zerene.
Cool to find your channel Albert. This is good stuff. Loving the Dutch accent.
Great job on the video Albert mate; looking forward to more videos from you overtime buddy
Thanks my friend!
Thanks for the info! I had a Canon that did this in-camera, but switched to Sony last year and really missed it. It seems that even my old Sony A6600 has this feature and I didnt know it!
Thank you for the help! Couldn't find the answer to this question within Sony Imaging Edge or Adobe Photoshop's help manuals. Everyone seems to suck at search tools, but Google. lol
I shoot jewelry with an A7IV, and Laowa 90mm macro, manual lens, aperture at F11, and flash. I take between 10 - 20 shots, to get all parts of the metal ring, & gems in focus by moving the focus point, punching in with the magnifier button on the camera, and manually adjusting the focus on the lens. Will this new function of the A7RV be able to automate this for me using my manual lens, or will i need the Sony 90mm autofocus macro lens?
It doesn't work with manual lenses. You will need the Sony one (or any other autofocus lens)
@AlbertDrosPhotography, it's nice Sony finally implemented the focus shift mode. It is also nice now you can shoot more than 30 sec in the bulb timer. 2 of the most handy features for landscape/nightscape photography that Sony missing in years. HOWEVER, why Sony doesn't let you shoot focus shift more than 30 sec? When you shoot landscape or astro landscape at night. You can't focus your subject unless you shine lights onto it. But in most cases, you don't want to do that at night for many reasons. I thought the focus shift shooting could solve this problem brilliantly in the dark environment. All you needed to do is to focus the ground right in front of you and let the camera taking care of the rest without actually shine the lights to focus on the main subject that is far away from you. Unfortunately it's not the case. Because Sony won't allow me to shoot more than 30 sec in the dark with focus shift mode. And we all know 30sec is not good enough to get a noise free or low noise photo when you shoot nightscape. What a shame. I believe Nikon and Canon already had this feature working in the dark environment flawlessly. I hope Sony will add this in their future firmware updates.
Yes, too bad 30 seconds is the limitation. Completely agree with you. More than 30 sec with focus stacking would be welcome for night shooting.
Perfect! Thanks so much for this video.
Thank you so much for great tutorial.
Hello Albert, have you tried the app Alpha Focus Bracketing to avoid Sony limitations?
Does the A7RV allow a speedlite flash on the hot shoe to fire when focus bracketing? If so it would be an interesting camera for insect photography with the 61mp sensor and the 90mm macro, especially for being able to crop in so much.
I had to look up for your website (does not show in your RUclips bios). Your pics are amazing. Hopefully I can attend one of your workshops in the future.
great video thanks. I am about to shoot the Oregon Coast travelling from Canada in our RV
Excellent information. Thank you!!!
Thanks Albert 💐
Sony A7R5 📷
Nicely explained, thank you.
What about aperture F8? Then probably more pictures will be taken? Otherwise the settings will stay the same?
Thanks so much for this video.
Do you know if this can be done in Photoshop Elements?
So that’s basically a game changer for macro / landscape photographers?? Sweet one more reason to get the rv
I just picked up a6700 and it has this feature. Hope the a1 FW updates includes this. Can you tell me if this shoots these RAW or just JPG?
Great video. Can’t wait to one day get a a7r5
Thank you for the tutorial! You made it seem so much easier than how I imagined this process to work! I'll have to give it a try!
Ah! After almost 2 years....much thanks Albert for the tutorial. Please post more frequently, if possible. Love your photography and works much.
Thank you! I'll do my best:)
Great video. Thank you.
Albert, Thank you for great video. Tell me please, what kind of camera strap do you use? Your camera strap doesn't look like the strap that came with Sony A7RV.
It's a peak design strap :)
Hey there! I am looking for some insight or advice on a lens to use with sony that does well with macro and landscapes! What should I consider looking for a lens that works really well with both of these types of photography. Do you have any videos about this?
I have a video on the 70-200 macro. Check that one :)
Thanks for the video, I just tested it out and my Sony a7rV recorded the images at two different resolutions. I've done a search but haven't found an explanation for why. Have you experienced this? Could it be my cards are too slow? Thnaks David
Thanks for sharing! Can focus stacking be used in combination with exposure bracketing?
Probably not with the automatic focus bracketing. You would have to shoot several exposure brackets while manually adjusting the focus each time.
На Sony a7r5 с ее разрешением 60 МPix дифракция света на матрице начинается уже на диафрагмах от f/5.6. О каких f/14 может идти речь?
Вы не объединяли pixel shift с focus staking?
I usually use f/4 or f/5.6 for stacked shots with a high res camera and a modern lens.
Great video! Anyone find a similarly great tutorial on Exposure Bracketing? I imagine they're similar, but as a noob I can use all the tutorials I can get.
Thank you so much for this video! Will this still work ok if you edit the raw images before bringing them into photoshop. I prefer to make most of my adjustments to the RAW images first. As long as you don't crop or change lens compensations etc should it work ok?
yes for sure. I actually forgot to mention that. Better to do it that way.
Great video mate 👍 Slightly off topic question... Do you turn the IBIS and/or lens stabilisation when using troop and focus stacking, especially for long exposures? Thank you!
I don't. Lots of people say that sometimes it's better to turn off IBIS but I never encountered issues with it during longer exposures.
The focus stacking does not always focus to infinity. Please pass this to Sony engineers. Digilloyd said Sony focus Stacking is broken. Mark Galer replied this to my comment about failure to focus to infinity: " I think this feature can best be described as ‘work in progress’"
Can you use the Focus Stacking feature using APSC mode?
Great video - thanks for the video, but how did you open the RAW files in LR Classic ? It seems that the A7Rv RAW isn’t supported yet ? What magic did you do ?
Check some other comments. I replied a few times. It's with a tool called exiftool :)
Thanks gor this useful explanation.
Do we still get highest quality of uncompressed RAW out of this Focus Stacking mode?
yes sure, whatever you set up :)
Great video can you do focus stacking with long exposure like to blur out waterfalls and keep everything in focus
Absolutely!
Hello Albert
What would be your 1 lens choice if you had to shoot wildlife bronze art and taxidermy art at a very high level. I will be buying the Sony 7rv. But I am honestly not sure what lens or 2 would be the very best lens for the project? 5:30
amazing! thank you so much!
Excellent tutorial. Thanks. Do you have any concerns about diffraction when using f11 or f14?
Not so much no. Only after f14
Hello Albert, a question. I have the SONY A7RV and the Sony 24-70 GM II lens. What mm size CPL filter I should buy? Thanks.
82mm :)
@@AlbertDrosPhotography They recommended me in the store to buy a larger size for when used in 24 mm.
Is the a7rv good for videos? Can you please do a testing being videographer (Full frame vs Super 35)?
Albert I love that you're wearing the jacket from November's Iceland Photo Camp!
I've gotten my hands on a Sony A7RV and am looking forward to exploring all these new features - and your videos!
What about using Luminar NEO to process the focus stack images?
I've only tried it out this week, and works great actually!
Hi DAlbert, I'm struggling to connect A7RV to the computer for shooting products. I can't connect to image edge, smartshooter4, or zoom. I'm using the same settings as I did fir the A7rIV. Any help is appreciated.
nice, why you dont use the electronic shutter on that?
Good to see this is now possible in the new A7R5. What about the A7R4? How did you do this before A7R5 came out? Just manually switching focus points?
Hope this will also come in new firware for A7R4.
yep, just manually select focus points via touch :)
Albert nice video thnks
Great video, Is this the only Sony Camera with this feature? Also does it have Multiple exposure mode like Canon?
Not that kind of multiple exposure no. And yes, for now it's the only one.
nice video. But how do i avoid focus breathing? Which camera/lens pair can i use to avoid this issue?
You don’t. It’s a problem in common with most lenses and cameras. The software assembling the stacked images adjusts for focus breathing.
If you are just interested in 4K video, I would go with the a7S III. With 12.9 MP, it is 4K without all that downraezng that would be required with the a7R V and its 61MP sensor. A frame of 4K uses 8MP. The a7R V has 61MP. You don't need that for any video. The a7R V camera is more a hybrid. It is a photo camera that does video. The a7 S III is a video camera that does photos.
what does this have to do with anything related to this video :D ?
@@AlbertDrosPhotography feedback pal
Is there any way the focus stacking feature can be given to A7IV via firmware update?
We can only hope :)
@@AlbertDrosPhotography as an ambasador, can you please ask about this? Thanks!
I want this feature so bad. Ugh, anyway, if they could only add live exposure compositions to do light painting shots, I would be completely sold on a7r5
Would love to know these locations your shooting at
I was trying out my Sony A7RV with the 70-200 mm G F/4 OSS II lens to give macro photography a try to see if I really enjoy this genre before I make any investments in more macro gears.. I tried focus bracketing and set it as 2 with maximum shots at 70 and the camera keeps shooting till it reaches the maximum 70 shots. I was expecting it to stop shooting before it reaches 70 shots as it would have captured enough focussed images for focus stacking. I also tried testing it by setting it to 3 and then to 4, and also on both occasions, the camera also took up to 70 shots which I knew that for my just a flower image, the shots taken by the camera were far more than were required for focus stacking. Can you please how to resolve this issue? Any advice or help would be much appreciated. Many thanks!
Set it to 7 or 8 and put a maximum of 20 shots or so. The 'problem' you're describing is very normal. You have to realize that the camera will keep shooting until it reaches infinity focus. That means if you focus somewhere close on your flower and set it to 2, it will shoot a bunch of shots where your flower has different focus points, but it will keep shooting beyond that (obviously) until it reaches infinity focus, which is WAY behind your flower. So to prevent that, simply set a much lower number of shots. You don't focus stacking to infinity for a flower macro shot. That's something you only do with your wide angle shots for landscapes.
Hello Albert, First of all, I love your pictures! Then regarding to this feature you have in the A7RIV, do you know if Sony has implemented this in the Sony A7iv as well ?
Love this video, thank you! However infinity is unreachable sir.😊
Thanks for the review! Love your work!
thank you!
Olympus (em system) do this focus stacking more easily and do AUTOMATICALLY in body the assembling process and give you directly the result without the need of Photoshop !
If you are not satisfied there is the olympus free software enabling to do a select assembling
I know! It's quite crazy Olympus can do this, among other great functions like exposure stacking.
Can you add a new folder for normal bracketed shot sequences too? They should have the option for both.
Very good job as always, I'm thinking of investing in this camera and in a sigma 105 mm dg dn art macro lens, that's why the focus stacking option is really welcome in my opinion. What do you think of this combo for the macro? I think that with high definition it is possible to crop without too much loss of quality or by using the super 35mm mode it is possible to be even closer on certain subjects. Thanks ;)
I guess that's good :) i don't have a experience with the sigma. Using the sony 90mm macro myself
Great job as usual .. watched this video for the 3rd time your workflow is fantastic .. I would like to know if you have done some focus bracketing with telephoto lenses and with cameras that don’t have this feature .. like A7R IV .. in general how big is The difference between wide-angle lens is and telephoto lenses? How many images should I take at 400mm with 100-400 for example at 5.6 .. it’s pretty shallow DOF at that range and aperture ? Or should I use PhotoPills and calculate DOF and then decide .. I would like to hear your advice :) thanks
Thank you. With telephoto lenses it gets tricky doing it manual. You will want to use a narrow aperture of at least f/14 for that. If you're shooting at f/5.6 with 100-400 you're never gonna get it right. You would require 50+ shots , and doing that manually is difficult.
@@AlbertDrosPhotography i see.. with F14 or so is 4-6 images is enough like wide angle ? Or I should take more just in case ..
Lekker bezig! Smaakt naar meer en dat gaat er ook komen zo te horen 😬
Thanks Roy :D
Sony A7IV available same option?
my A7RV only has the following two bracket order settings: 0>->+ and ->0>+ Any idea why mine lacks the 0>+ ?
I have a new sony A7R5 body. Im a new sony A7 user. Im using a Sigma MC-11 to adapt canon aps-c lens. Im trying to perform focus stacking and getting the following error message, "invalid with this lens" error. The "step width" and the "number of shots" are also grayed out. I also get the error message "this function is currently disabled". I also used a canon prime lens and still get the same error message " invalid with this lens". I have also turned on/off aps-c mode and still get an error message. Or you can only use sony native lens in order to use this feature. Thanks in advance for taking the time to respond.
I think the function doesn't work with adapters. Although i haven't tried it.
Great video, very well explained, how do you open RAW files from the A7R5 in Lightroom?
please check this link :) www.albertdros.com/post/how-to-open-your-a7rv-raw-files
@@AlbertDrosPhotography Thank you very much it works, on MAC and WINDOWS. You have just gained a subscriber.
@@d.m.3669 Thank you, much appreciated!
4:05 absolutely stunning shot. Which lens did you use for this?
Those shots were with the 12-24 GM
hi is there a good tutaural out there for sony using the RMT-P1BT to photo stack using other Sony Cameras eg A9.
Mooie video, duidelijk uitgelegd. Meteen uitgeprobeerd met mijn Sigma macro 105 lens, helaas blijft alleen het ingestelde focus punt scherp en gebeurt er verder niets
Werkt het alleen met Sony lensen.dat zou wel heel erg jammer zijn
I’m wondering if Sony brings out a firmware update for the A7r4 for this feature
Thank you very much, great video!
I love my sony A1 and the lens selection but frankly their lack of substantial/meaningful firmware updates is embarrassing!
Even for their "Flagship camera".
Focus breathing compensation came out with A7SIII (OCT 2020)and still not available for the A1!!!! So I don't see this function making its way to other models.
Also $1200 CF express type A card is disgusting!!!!!
Don't worry you can buy a heavily sanctioned A7RV, because your A1 is now too old. Then you can buy A1 mkII which will cost at this rate £9000 and so on.
how is the low light and high iso performance on the a7r5 ?
Could you clarify things please, you said regarding focus stacking that the A7RV starts stacking from the nearest select af point and then just keeps going until infinity is reached, for macro work at 1 to 1 magnification wouldn't this then mean a huge amount of wasted frames as at 1/1 infinity is an extremely long way away. Please let me know as I've been thinking about switching to a Fuji XT-4/5 whereby you simply select the nearest and furthest distances for front to back sharpness of your subject and the camera then automates the entire process and terminates the bracket when the furthest selected point is reached. Very Nice
You are very right. But you can also select a maximum number of shots. Or simply stop it when you see the focus is already far past the subject regarding macro.
Albert, the 7RV isn't being released here in the U.S. for another week. After seeing your video I might put off my 7IV purchase ! Boring question, Many people have expressed what a hassle these huge 61MP files are. Larger memory cards, slower file loading into your computer etc. I'm coming from 42MP. camera which seemed crazy big enough. Can you comment on your experience with these concerns. Thanks
Hi Ed! That's interesting. The A7RIV also has 61 mp and is already on the market for 3+ years so the 61 MP of the A7RV is really nothing new :) . 61MP is really nothing crazy, but if 42MP is crazy big enough for you, then the higher megapixel might not be for you. The A7RV is really about all the functions and not so much about the megapixel count (as I said, its the same as the previous model). But regarding machine and handling the files, I didn't notice lots of difference between the 42MP and the 61MP when I started using the 61 megapixel files a few years ago. The easiest way is simply download some raw files (of the A7RIV, they're almost the same) and try them on your computer :)
@@AlbertDrosPhotography thank you for thoughtful response. I agree it’s about the functions of the camera. Just weighing the burden of higher files. Love that 3D look of some of your photos ! Close focused foreground all the way through the scene.
Hey, can You please check there is possibility to make focus stacking with silent shutter mode (electronic shutter) - and make it more faster ? i want to use this option for macro photography. Olympus has this option, but i want to use FF body. Thanks in advance for reply
On electronic shutter the speed of the shots is exactly the same, so unfortunately not super fast.
@@AlbertDrosPhotography If you set the shutter speed to i.e. 1/1000 - how many pictures per second can be achieved?
How do you set focus? Automatic or manual?
Doesn't matter. Both works. As long as you use an AF lens.
Thank you!