This little device plugs into your camera and provides wireless connection to a smartphone, tablet, or laptop/desktop computer. As of on Windows, the bug exists.First, take a good look at the CamRanger camera controller. But due to a bug that comes and goes in either Lightroom or Photoshop, you might have to close and reopen Lightroom in order to see the stacked image.
#Zerene stacker vs. helicon focus pdf#
I've a tutorial made with a couple of my images in a PDF document but I don't see anyway to save it or link to it from this forum. BTW, the same applies to exposure backeting for HDR stacking.crop them first until they are approximately the same size and composed identically as close to possible, no need to be exact.But if handheld, shooting separate images that are not closely aligned, then Photoshop cannot align them without a little help. Shooting RAW of course.įor this type of shooting, Photoshop does a fine job. I shoot with in-camera focus bracketing (not stacking) with an Olympus EM1 and a little testing with my son's Fuji X-T3 - handheld and on a tripod. Photoshop, Ive learned, is HORRIBLE for stacking. One can also use Helicon Remote with Zerene. Most of my work is now done in Zerene, which I acquired after using Helicon for a while.Ī nice addition to Helicon is Helicon Remote for automatically acquiring stacks by adjusting the focus by automatically turning the focusing ring of autofocus lenses in small increments to obtain the stack. Zerene specializes in deep stacks and requires a bit more user input. Helicon is faster and beginners can get good results using the default settings. I have both programs and agree that both are excellent, and the choice would depend on one's workflow and type of photography. The TIFFs are in a temporary directory and can be deleted when the stacking is done or saved by saving stacking session. This has the advantage of using one's default and familiar raw converter to do the conversions. I shoot raw with my Nikons and use Lightroom to export TIFFs to Zerene. If you shoot in raw there is only one choice, Helicon, raw in dng out, perfect.Ĭhoosing between Helicon and Zerene is hard, depends on your workflow. This matters to me as my stacks will likely be handheld and not well alligned straight from camera.įor what it's worth, I use Helicon and like it a lot. I wonder if poeple auto allign in photoshop before putting in Helicon or if there is a setting to allign first in helicon Im not seeing. With that said, I didn't have to do that in zerene.
I had the same issue with a snowflake shot, but was able to correct that by going back in to lightroom and cropping them to allign as well as I possibly could by eye in lightroom as well as trash a couple exposures that I thought were probably redundant. It came up with a messy abstract collage of insect legs and other bits. I happened to still have the same file of exports and threw it in helicon as soon as I found it. FWIW, I have one shot of an assassin but that I stacked in Zerene.It didn't do a great job with because I had out of focus areas that I didn't notice before stacking, but other than that, it did okay.
#Zerene stacker vs. helicon focus trial#
I am working with the trial of helicon now. I did actually read that already before posting this.
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