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Working with a StackShot rail for focus stacking

Working with a StackShot rail for focus stacking - Photoshop Tutorial

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Working with a StackShot rail for focus stacking

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In the last movie, you saw me create a focus stack using my computer, and having Helicon remote control the autofocus on my lens to cycle through a bunch of different slices of focus. I am taking a very different approach this time. I'm using a special piece of hardware that is going to build a focus stack by moving the camera, rather than refocusing the lens. There are two advantages to this. [00:00:2.07] First of all, I'm set up with my 65 mm 1- 5X Macro, and I am dialed in at about 2 1/2X. That's a much greater level of magnification than the 100mm lens that I was using earlier, the 100 millimeter macro. However, this lens has no autofocus feature, so I can't remote control it. So, that's one reason that I've gone to this other solution here. But even if I was using the 100mm macro or another macro lens that has autofocus, I would still probably use the stack shot for what I'm about to do, or for all of my focus stacking actually, because there is a difference between moving the…

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