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Thanks Peter for not just explaining the principles but giving the critical gritty details such as number of shots, focus band and apperture. VERY useful. Looking forward to trying it out with my Leica 8-18 mm soon!

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Great tutorial. I've been wanting to try focus bracketing for landscape. I've done it once manually at Mt. Nemo on the Bruce Trail and it turned out well. Had to stack afterwards as it was the EM10i, which didn't have stacking nor did I have a lens that allowed it in camera. But, it definitely helps.

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hello Peter, as all your articles very well liked by me. I was wondering: in your blog on "Exposure Bracketing" you use Sequential High so you can shoot without a tripod. Is this also a good idea for Focus Bracketing?

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I've now read and studied this tip and found it to be very helpful in understanding Focus Stacking on my M1.3. But, great information sometimes brings up an extra question or two. (1), when I look at the image files, it's hard to tell which frame is the "finished" one. With my camera set to record JPEG and Raw, there's quite a number of shots.After looking closely, I think it's the first one in the series of exposures, which if so, leaves me a little puzzled because (2) being a "stack" of all frames, there seems to be individual frames with better focus. BTW, I was shooting in the same area of your photos from Zion Canyon. Wonderful area.

Hi Peter, I am very happy that I found your blog and this article. I always wanted to try Focus BKT with my E-M1 Mark II, but now with this informations there is no more excuse not to do it. Very good explained, thanks a lot!

prism, in optics, a piece of glass or other transparent material cut with precise angles and plane faces, useful for analyzing and reflecting light. An ordinary triangular prism can separate white light into its constituent colours, called a spectrum. Each colour, or wavelength, making up the white light is bent, or refracted, a different amount; the shorter wavelengths (those toward the violet end of the spectrum) are bent the most, and the longer wavelengths (those toward the red end of the spectrum) are bent the least. Prisms of this kind are used in certain spectroscopes, instruments for analyzing light and for determining the identity and structure of materials that emit or absorb light.

Prisms are made in many different forms and shapes, depending on the application. The Porro prism, for example, consists of two prisms arranged both to invert and to reverse an image and are used in many optical viewing instruments, such as periscopes, binoculars, and monoculars. The Nicol prism consists of two specially cut calcite prisms bonded together with an adhesive known as Canada balsam. This prism transmits waves vibrating in one direction only and thus produces a plane-polarized beam from ordinary light.

Hi Peter, I just wanted to tell you how much I have enjoyed your amazing photos, videos and articles. And I have learned how to apply some of the parts of Olympus cameras that had been a little confusing. I am working my way through putting that knowledge into practice. I use the OM 1. After a few years of bird photography with the wonderful 300 mm lens, I shifting toward stars and landscapes and an am really enjoying the old primes, the 12, 25 and 75 and having light kit is divine. Look forward to reading and viewing more from you.

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Very glad someone passed on the link to this article. What a great service you have provided to help us get started using this feature of our OMD cameras!

Hi Peter, This helped a lot … I’ve been struggling with different settings and been verry confused when I get some images in the series absolutely out of focus or no focus at close or distance objects. An other issue has been “double” objects from the merge process. I’ve been focusing a bit longer in to the motive and not as you are doing, closest object. I’ve also used focus differentiation settings closer to or at 10 to get the very distance sharp. I’ve used 4 – 6 shots in the series. I’ve used aperture settings to get a larger depth of field then you are, f 8 - f 11. I use focus bracketing mostly on my 7-14mm and 12-40mm lenses but sometimes also on my 40-150mm lens. I got the impression from your text that you use the same settings on all lenses also tele, is this correct? The issue with “doubled” objects can that be due to me using to large depth of field, aperture settings at f 11, getting overlaying sharp areas from different shots confusing the application? I’ve been using Helicon Focus but had trouble with it and found that Olympus Workspace is creating a better result. How do you see O. W. compared to PS? For me you nailed it with the way you described the process in detail, verry nice work! I will take a tour, already today, and test according to your recommendation, that obviously works. By the way you take amassing photos 😊

Hi, Peter! In the BTS picture looks like you are using a 100mm filter system on a 7-14mm lens. I'm wondering how do you avoiding vignetting with wider shooting angles?

Peter, great article and timely for me as I want a "very near to far" in focus landscape image. Unfortunately, I do not get a far ridge line to come in focus (OM-1 &12-40/Pro, f8) using 8 shots - in camera stack at differential of 3. If I shoot a single shot at f8 and focus 10 feet away, everything is in focus. Any suggestions?