![]() This is a medium format camera I could go smaller, if I wanted to without worrying about defraction artifacts and that sort of thing, but I'm gonna keep it around in there. So I have full control of my camera, I'm gonna jump over here to aperture priority and close down my aperture a little bit, I'm gonna go down to F8. But even still you can tell that depth of field could very easily be an issue in this camera, or rather in this shot. Switch over to control of the camera, turn on live view and you can see my shot and right away here, though the camera has not been accurately focused. Now I'm gonna open up the main Fuji plug-in. ![]() ![]() I'll then process them, if I wanna add the results or even the original frames to Lightroom later I can. I wanna do that somewhere else anyway, so I'm just using Lightroom to drive the camera and get the images onto my computer somewhere. In its clumsily translated way what it's trying to say is that it's not actually gonna add any of these images to my catalog, this is great because Lightroom doesn't have any Focus Stacking features in it. Save images directly onto the PC storage without registering to the Lightroom. I'm gonna open up some preferences here, there's a very cool preference here. It's $35 or $70 depending on which version you buy and I'm not sure the $35 one has the Focus Stacking in it so you'll wanna check into that. For that, I need a special Fuji plug-in, that plug-in is free for GFX users, there's a fee for XT2 users. Now, Lightroom's normal tethering, can't automatically drive the Focus Stacking feature in this camera. I have this tethered into Lightroom, I'm gonna turn it on. Features show up there and then eventually make it down into the cameras that we use every day. Start paying attention to what's going on at the high end of the market, it's pretty interesting. If you want to know what features might be in the camera that you're using five years from now. And now it's tricking down into the consumer market. But also this is a feature that's been available on high end medium format cameras for several years now. I wanted to show you this feature today, for a couple of reasons, one it's a cool thing that you should know about if you're into macro or landscape photography, anywhere where you want really deep depth of field. ![]() Well Fuji has this same feature in their XT2 body which comes in at around $2,000, I would show you that camera except I'm using it to shoot this video right now. Now this is a medium format camera, you may or may not know that this body is around $6,000 or $7,000 so you may be thinking, that's outta my league you're talking about high-end features that aren't for me. Instead this camera achieves it's focus stacking by simply focusing to different points and it handles all of this automatically. Now it can't move itself forward and backward. As I said, this camera has Focus Stacking built in. It was a rail that could automatically move the camera forward, firing the shutter as it went and it knew how to very precisely make movements of the right distance so that the depth of field of each shot would overlap. If you've seen my Foundations of Photography Macro course then you've seen examples of Focus Stacking, and in that course I used a special Focus Stacking robot. With Focus Stacking you take a series of images focused at different depths to create slices of focus then with special software you can combine all of those into a finished image that has good focus all the way through. This is a Fuji GFX 50S this is a medium format camera that has built into it, a technology called Focus Stacking, although Fuji calls it Focus Bracketing. This week on the Practicing Photographer we're gonna look at a new-ish technology for addressing deep depth of field, whether you're working as a macro shooter or even as a landscape shooter. So as you can see in this image, the front petal is in focus, the rest of the flower quickly drops off into being blurry. At macro distances, like I have here between this macro lens and this flower, it's very hard to get depth of field that goes all the way through your subject, as you get closer and closer to your subject, depth of field gets shallower and shallower. Like most forms of specialized shooting macro photography has its own set of technical hurdles that you have to cross, and probably the biggest hurdle and probably one that you've already encountered if you've even just dabbled in macro photography is depth of field, or rather lack of depth of field.
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