Q about Focus Bracketing

Lester Wareham wrote in post #18823465
I tend to manually stack in photoshop using layers (for live subjects that might move I find this gives less artifacts) so would it still be possible to access the individual frames?

Focus peaking certainly a boon with fast primes, don't know how well this would work with the MP-E at 3x or more, so any experience with the pair would be interesting to hear about.

On a general comment on the R and RP, for me it is just a shame they put them on a new RF mount so you have to use an adaptor with an old EF, MP, TS lens.

My understanding is that you can still access the individual frames if you just want to pick out ones you want/like.

I tried out the RP with the adapter & several EF lenses in Best Buy & it seemed to work basically flawlessly; also seemed very well made & comes free w/ the camera during March, so at least there’s that.

I’ve never used focus peaking but when I saw it on the RP at Best Buy (the Canon guy happened to be there so I asked for some demos) the parts in focus were very bright & clear (in that case, red, but could have been yellow or blue) when manually focusing (I don’t know what it looks like on other cameras so I have no basis for comparison). I thought it could be useful for macro manual focusing especially as my vision can’t be corrected to 20/20 right now (maybe at some point after cataract surgery, but that’s a couple years off).

Don't get too excited, I just downloaded the latest version of DPP 4 and the depth tool works with 5D4 images but not with Olympus images so it may be that they mean the DPP works with those 3 cameras not that they will all get focus bracketing

racketman wrote in post #18823498
Looks likely a firmware for the 5DMK4 & EOS R will be coming:
https://www.dpreview.c​om/forums/post/6231179​6

I would absolutely love to have focus bracketing (& focus peaking too) on my 5D IV. But if a firmware update only provided focus bracketing I would still be thrilled.

ozziepuppy wrote in post #18823592
My understanding is that you can still access the individual frames if you just want to pick out ones you want/like..

The camera does not do the stacking. That still has to be done in post. All the stacking feature does is help provide the set of images for the stack. All of the images are separate. it just automates the change focus/press shutter portion of the stacking process.

gjl711 wrote in post #18823596
The camera does not do the stacking. That still has to be done in post. All the stacking feature does is help provide the set of images for the stack. All of the images are separate. it just automates the change focus/press shutter portion of the stacking process.

That’s correct. The camera will do the focus bracketing, but the stacking is done later, outside the camera, using DPP or other software. However, you don’t have to necessarily stack all of the images. Also, if you want, you can just choose individual images. Or both. The RP has focus bracketing, but it does not have in-camera focus stacking.

gjl711 wrote in post #18823472
Not sure why the adapter would negatively affect the MP lens. It's not like focus speed will suffer. Kind of the same with the TS lenses. They require so much setup and adjustment that any speed impacts would be negligible. Also, I believe Canon was including the EF adapter as part of the kit, yes? If so, no cost impact either.

All true, just rather not have to use an adaptor just from a handling and reliability point of view, not a biggie as long as one does not have a mix of RF and EF lenses.

A lot depends on Canon’s roadmap going forward. Not planning to replace my lens set with RF.

Lester Wareham wrote in post #18823905
All true, just rather not have to use an adaptor just from a handling and reliability point of view, not a biggie as long as one does not have a mix of RF and EF lenses.

A lot depends on Canon’s roadmap going forward. Not planning to replace my lens set with RF.

I would love to see a re-spin of the MPE in a RF mount with updated optics. Love that lens.

wrote to Canon, they have no plans for a firmware for 5DIV focus bracketing but have passed my suggestion on, so in short NO