Originally posted by rechmbrs Andrea,
I'd like to see an option to save and retrieve the table in CSV format so we can build the table in Excel. It would be a waste of your time to duplicate so much of what Excel or other spreadsheets offer if you can move on to getting the Mac version up and running. Sharing of setups would be easier too.
Sampling of the frames for stacking or selecting should be a concern and hasn't be mentioned before. To make good stacks, sampling at just peak focus points is probably not sufficient. This means artifacts will be seen in the stacks. Likewise beginning and ending edges of the of the ensemble being stacked.
Heavy users of various versions of stacking please comment on sampling.
RONC
Nice points.
I can't do an export->edit->import because every parameters need to be validated by the camera. The edit in another software means that the user can write also bad values or bad text, this would lead to errors in the communication to the camera, unexpected behaviors as well as an huge work of checking and validating the inputs.
About focus stacking, the purpose is to have areas in focus one behind the other.
I have do some tests and I obtained very good results simply adding samples. If a stack with 5 shots isn't enough to have all significant parts in focus just add a shot with the focus on the "critical" zone. The user must not redo the entire Program, he can take only this picture and add it to the photo editing software.
Keep in mind also that the photo editing software can do mistakes during the merge process. Definitely focus stack needs a bit of work.
From my youtube video example:
Photoshop 2019 has left some artifacts after the automatic process:
Simply by changing the masks between layers I obtained this:
You can also see that the near part of the FA 43 cap isn't perfectly on focus, this because I wanted to show in my video that it was possible to add shots to improve the stack. I do not have that shot with me now to show you how the stack has improved.
Thank you for your interest.
Cheers,
Andrea