[beachgardener]

Is "in camera focus stacking" something that Pentax/Ricoh could do?

Would it be a wanted feature? I would certainly use it.

I imagine this could be a mode setting and user configurable with up to say 9 images shot at various short distance at a given fstop/shutter, produce raw+/raw to compose a macro image.

Do other manufacturers do this? If so it is Ricoh's job to do it better

Any other takes on this? How does in camera stack up with a manual focus stacking?

i did intend for this to be in Macro, but here it is in general section

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Last edited by beachgardener; 05-25-2014 at 01:16 AM. Reason: add info.

[Adam]

The Ricoh GR has AF bracketing, so the natural next step would be to automatically combine the shots. But I also wish they added something along the lines of DOF bracketing!

[beachgardener]

yeah DOF bracketing would be great, a whole subject in focus and out of focus background, is that in essence the same/similar to focus stacking?

[baro-nite]

yeah DOF bracketing would be great, a whole subject in focus and out of focus background, is that in essence the same/similar to focus stacking?

Same thing.

Certainly it could be done. But focus stacking is computationally intensive. Also, for most of the stacking I do, some manual adjustment is essential to get a good result. So I'm really skeptical about the usefulness of doing this in-camera. It would probably be about as useful as in-camera HDR/tonemapping.