Manual focus stacking aid
Posted: 29 Mar 2015, 16:34
Hi Zoltan,
today I was shooting some macro with flash and focus stacking.
Although QDD made good job helping me to shoot the pictures, the automatic focus stacking didn't bring me expected results (could be a subject of a different discussion) which made me do the job manually.
This tedious work gave me an idea of two new features I'd appreciate to have them built into QDD.
1) Since I was shooting with flash and I used a shutter speed which allowed me to kill ambient light I had to constantly switch between 2 shutter speeds which was driving me mad. One for the exposure itself (1/200s) and another one for LV (1") - so that I was able to see anything at all in LV and to adjust the focus.
So my idea is to either have the possibility to quick switch between two pre-defined shutter speeds or have this process automated entirelly - QDD would automatically select one shutter speed for shooting and the other one for the exposure.
2) Second idea would be to remember last zoom level and crop area. After every shot I had to re-zoom to the area in order to see whether it's in focus or not.
Juraj
today I was shooting some macro with flash and focus stacking.
Although QDD made good job helping me to shoot the pictures, the automatic focus stacking didn't bring me expected results (could be a subject of a different discussion) which made me do the job manually.
This tedious work gave me an idea of two new features I'd appreciate to have them built into QDD.
1) Since I was shooting with flash and I used a shutter speed which allowed me to kill ambient light I had to constantly switch between 2 shutter speeds which was driving me mad. One for the exposure itself (1/200s) and another one for LV (1") - so that I was able to see anything at all in LV and to adjust the focus.
So my idea is to either have the possibility to quick switch between two pre-defined shutter speeds or have this process automated entirelly - QDD would automatically select one shutter speed for shooting and the other one for the exposure.
2) Second idea would be to remember last zoom level and crop area. After every shot I had to re-zoom to the area in order to see whether it's in focus or not.
Juraj