Focus Shift

[GuyWithACamera]

Hello All,

I am having an issue with the focus shift feature on my Z camera. No matter what settings I change in the focus shift menu, I always get a blurred border around the subjects of the image when stacked and blended. It does not matter how many photos are taken or the focus step width (1-10). I get the same results when using Photoshop and HeliconFocus to stack and blend images. Any help is much welcome.

 

[Clovishound]

My money is on the software. I sometimes have trouble with PS doing a poor job of identifying certain areas to include in the blended image. I manually make the focus stacks, rather than relying on the camera.

Have you looked at the series of individual images to see if that area has an image or two that has this area in focus?

 

[GuyWithACamera]

My money is on the software. I sometimes have trouble with PS doing a poor job of identifying certain areas to include in the blended image. I manually make the focus stacks, rather than relying on the camera.

Have you looked at the series of individual images to see if that area has an image or two that has this area in focus?

Bummer, that feature seemed to be awesome in theory until I actually tried to use it. I also did not check to see if those areas were in focus. I will have to do so the next time I experiment around with focus shift.

 

[Clovishound]

If you still have the separate images for the stacks, you can check the ones you already have.