A week ago I took my gear (R5, RF100mm, lightweight tripod, remote controller) to the local botanical garden in order to explore and learn about focus bracketing. I have been using ACDSee (currently Ultimate 2022) as my favorite (and unique) photo editor for as long as I can remember. Here I want to report that ACDSee does an excellent job in assembling a composite image (examples below) from focus-bracketed images.
The processing time used by ACDSee is quite reasonable, and I guess - based on my (limited) experience with DPP - that it may be significantly shorter than the time needed by DPP. I may eventually perform a quantitative comparison in the future.
Example 1: 12 individual shots. Top to bottom: first image, last image, assembled composite.
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Example 2: 8 individual shots. Top to bottom: first image, last image, assembled composite.
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Example 3: 7 individual shots. Top to bottom: first image, last image, assembled composite. It is amazing how ACDSee manages to handle this complex pattern of interlaced plant elements to achieve the final composite in a fully automated way not calling for any user intervention. The latter feature may actually also be a curse since it means that user intervention is not possible.
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