The more modern Cameras of the OM-D body line of Olympus have some auto stacking feature.
Not to be mistaken withthe focus bracketing. With the bracketing you can create up to 99 images with each of them some slightly different focal pane. This is to stack them in a PC.
With focus stacking the stacking is done already within the camera body. That works surprisingly well even handheld. This example was taken on a stady tripod. (Stacked with the Focus Stacker App on a Mac.)
The Fairy Tale about Learning from Exif
People often ask for the Exif data or settings in forums and groups, which is quite understandable on one hand, that you want to know how a photo was made. One part of that story is the Exif meta data.
Furthermore there is hardly anyting secret in the Exif. Therefore, to me, it is not understandable why some photographers are reluctant to disclose their Exif data. Some of the meta data may well be private, like the real name, serial numbers, gps position and exact date and time. So on the other hand it is understandable, that photographers strip off the Exif before digitally publishing photos. But the settings? What is secret about the settings?
With this brief article I do not want to explain anything difficult but just show how different the usual formats of films and sensors are. These are the most common ones.
Legend
Format | Measures in mm | Factor | |
1 | Medium Format 6x7 | 60x70 | 0,47 |
2 | Medium Format 4,5x6 | 45x60 | 0,57 |
3 | Digital MF | 36x46 | 0,74 |
4 | Small Film 1) | 24x36 | 1 |
5 | DX | 15.6x23.7 | 1.5 |
6 | APS-C 2) | 14.8x22.2 | 1.62 |
7 | Foveon | 13.8x20.7 | |
8 | M4/3 3) | 13x17.3 | 2 |
9 | 1" | 8.8x13.2 | 2.7 |
10 | 2/3" | 6.6x8.8 | 3.92 |
11 | 1/1.8" | 5.4x7.2 | 4.81 |
12 | 1/2.5" | 4.3x5.8 | 6 |
13 | 1/2.7" | 4x5.4 | 6.43 |
14 | 1/3.2" | 3.4x4.5 | 7.67 |
1) Small film relates to the standard 24x36 on 135 type film. On film there other rather exotic formats too, such as 57x24 for panoramic formats, half format of 18x24 or even more exotic ones. For DSLR we usually refer to the full frame (full format) FF.
2) APS-C is a film format which varies slightly from the quasi APS-C that Canon, Sigma, Sony and Nikon uses. The difference to Canon APS-C is so small that I did not find it of being much of a value to include the real film APS-C in the graphic.
3) M4/3 ist an equivalent of Micro Four Thirds. This is the same sensor size as FT (Four Thirds) and happens to be the same frame size as used on 110 film.
You are always using the manufactuer's original lens hood but get lens flares in the image?
That may have two reasons.
1. You are using a full frame lens with a body with maller sensor.
So to speak you have an EF lens and a body with EF-S mount or an FX lens using with a DX body (Other manufacturers use their respective acronyms).
2. You are using a zoom lens
Is the depth of field really different when using cameras with different size of their sensors? You should think it is literally just a cropped image. How could that possibly affect the sharpness?
The image left shows the ratio of the size of a crop (here canon APS-C size) compared to so called Full Frame size bodies.
With some rather simple experiment I just checked how the sensor's size influences the depth of field. I photographed some standard ruler with two different bodies and with different focal length so that both images are taken with roughly the same angle.