Originally posted by constable Marcus
Very nice ... But stacking 645 images is verging on insanity! How are you doing it? Down-razzing to jpg first? Last time I tried with Zerene my Mac Pro went into meltdown!
Ed
The downloaded version free trial of zerene does not support jpeg files of medium format Z. You need to drop an email to the owner, (Rick) and he will direct you to change some settings to 65M to cater to bigger files of medium format. I have the same initial problems faced by you too.
I bought helicon focus as well together with zerene. For Helicon, there is no issue with files size and its fast and powerful, many times faster that zerene.
When I want a fast processing of stacks, I will choose helicon. The retouching tools, I often have smudges or the colors differs slightly. Maybe I need more practise on Helicon but I love the speed and power it produces a stacks.
For zerene, its processing power is slow, very slow in jpeg. You have to bring the files to the desk-top to download for proceesing. This is a minus point between the 2. The recommit image to retouching is also extremely slow here. I have to wait sometime to load and sometime takes minutes. Here I love the retouching tools as I find it easier to choose the background I want. The outcome is more predictable and less smudges of uneven colors of images.
This is just my personal opinion and I am not related to any party
. I bought a professional version for helicon and will upgrade my zerene from basic.
There is a free version too under combine ZP and photoshop can aslo perform stacking, as I understand.
marcus