Taken with the Phase One XF camera and 120mm f/4 macro lens.
This is the very first time I’ve used the XF camera’s built-in focus-stacking capability. In a nutshell, I can tell the camera to change focus during a series of exposures.
It’s easy to set up: I set the close focus position, then I set the far focus position. The camera then takes images (30 in this case) at intermediate focus positions. I then stack the images in Affinity Photo, and I have an image with a wonderfully deep focus.
The image looks good, but if you look closely, you can see that I had wilting during the exposure; things moved a bit toward the end, but I was able to use Affinity Photo’s cleanup features to get a good image.
This camera has some wonderful potential for macro.
Due to the strangely temperate and wet climate of the Pacific Northwest, the apple trees won’t drop leaves and set buds for a few months yet.
Here’s a single image showing how much of the subject was in focus for any one image:
It’s not razor thin; I shot this at f/11 to get a decently thick focus zone in single images.