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Focus Stacking; We’ll Get it Right This Time!! Using the GH5

Photo Moment - March 24, 2017

I'm calling a mulligan… the first attempt at this was a total screwup, but now I know why… so let's do this focus stacking thing right!!

 

PRODUCTS MENTIONED IN TODAY'S PHOTO MOMENT (MANY ARE AFFILIATE LINKS… affiliate links make me a little bit of $ but cost you nothing more!):
Panasonic LUMIX GH5: [B&H - https://bhpho.to/2kQ9LT3] [Amazon - http://amzn.to/2lE4X1U] [Adorama - http://jal.bz/2lNYpQv]
Panasonic LUMIX MACRO 30mm f/2.8: [B&H - https://bhpho.to/2o8V6RC] [Amazon - http://amzn.to/2mYEvzX] [Adorama - http://jal.bz/2nbA5Xh]
Panasonic Leica Macro 45mm f/2.8: [B&H - https://bhpho.to/2mhHJi4] [Amazon - http://amzn.to/2mlH3Z7] [Adorama - http://jal.bz/2lO39Wn]
Manfrotto 496RC2 Compact Ball Head with RC2 Quick Release: [B&H - https://bhpho.to/2n45tJf] [Amazon - http://amzn.to/2mNWycS] [Adorama - http://jal.bz/2n3Z5ls]

VIDEOS MENTIONED IN TODAY'S PHOTO MOMENT:
4K Focus Stacking with Panasonic LUMIX Cameras - https://youtu.be/6wFRy8VQKuQ
Atomos Ninja Assassin - https://youtu.be/asSAoCNYLn4
Switching to Micro Four Thirds; the Shoot That Convinced Me - https://youtu.be/fOJyCHsA1m8

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I thought with the gh5 and gh6 you could set a start focus point (which you could) and an end focus point (which you don't seem it be able to do).
That is so cool! Thanks for this great video. Still very useful even today.
Hmmm- you did a nice description of focus bracketing, but the subjects- the glossy skulls were not the best thing to show variations in focus. I would have liked to seen objects with textures that could more easily be seen in & out of focus.
Have you compared the Post Focus with Focus Bracketing and what difference did you see?
focus bracketing, IIRC, still shoots RAW files, while post focus is essentially a movie file (think of it like a series of JPEGs). If you want to produce the final result in-camera, use Post Focus. If you're more interested in manipulating it in photoshop later, use Focus Bracketing.
Thanks for the redo. I was looking for a tutorial for focus bracketing with the G9, and this works. I'll use Helicon Focus because it usually is better than Photoshop's merge for stack processing.
Start at 10:30
You talk to much about BS
I love you too man!
Wow mindblown!
Great show, exactly what I needed when I needed it. Panasonic could use better descriptions of these functions in the manual. Patreon incoming.
Thank you!
It's amazing there is only 340p resolution available 3 days passed the publish of this video.
No problem. Thanks for the update.
I've emailed YouTube about it. There's something wrong with this video. Thanks for letting me know.
+Cactus Tweeter That's weird… I can't even get it to load. It was at full rez for sure before. Check back in a bit. Crazy!
Hi Joseph, I am very concerned with the recent bad news on Panasonic business. Can you please comment about it since you have more inside "in-site" being a Luminary? I am talking about this: http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Panasonic-takes-out-scalpel-again-as-profits-falter
Thanks :D
It's basically fake news. Read this to understand the real story: http://www.eoshd.com/2017/03/panasonic-will-accelerate-lumix-project-new-structure/
I had a play around with this for about half the day and got some good results. I have a couple of questions though. Can you import the stack file to your PC and fiddle with the file in Panasonic software. I have not downloaded the Panasonic software so not sure what it can do.
Also I took a lot of stacks but only looked at them at the end of the day. I also took some normal shots as as well of the same subjects. The problem is sometimes I cannot tell which is the stacked image. Is there any way to tell a stacked image from a normal image? EXIF data maybe? Looks like some of the normal shots I took had enough depth of field to make it hard to tell them from the stacked images in some cases.

since we can pick individual focus squares for a ranged stack I hope the GH5 has more or smaller squares to select from compared to the G85 to give better fine tuning.

Going to play around a bit more tomorrow.

Regards.
+Mark Laurendet I've never played with the Panasonic software. No EXIF data AFAIK that tells you it was part of a sequence. Look at the time stamp; that's probably best indicator. GH5 does have more focus areas; 255.
thanks , I especially liked the part about masking the white skull. I would like to see a comparison of the Photoshop stacked image versus the in camera stacked image. obviously Photoshop probably does a better job , but it'd be nice to know the differences
+thatsaloadofcrap that's a great idea
waiting for the camera... your videos are priceless
+Mop Krayz Thanks!! 🙏 (well there can be a price… PhotoJoseph.com/patreon 😁 )
Thanks for another good video, glad the cable issue was sorted out.
Sometimes it's just the little things things........
Hey Joseph good Show! Do you know something about Panasonic Cine Like D for the lovely GX85?
Is there a way to put a Vlog like (Cine like D) on GX85?
 Even cameras in the same range, like the Panasonic G7,have Cinelike D and V profiles that allow for better color manipulation for more serious video work.
+g fx What do you want to know?
Hey Joseph, here are two suggestions of next shows I typed on the comment section:
1) What is i.Resolution and i.Dynamic. When to use, when to don't, and what those settings does?
2) Favorite stills settings and why. (Specially the "Photo Style" tweaks, Highlight/Shadow adjustments, etc)
CHAT-LOG FROM THE LIVE SHOW:

Martin Pitt​The early bird gets the worm 😃

Ryan Greene​Delicious!

Ryan Greene​Moderator testing 123

Jon Morby​HIdihi

Jon Morby​Greetings and salutations from London England ... a sunny London no less!

FuzeDzn​Afternoon all

Jim lodge​Just picked up my GH5 but will have to wait till Sunday before I can try it. Shift working.

Martin Pitt​@Ryan Greene Worked 😃

TheBurnsTech​Ahh made it

Ryan Greene​Yup! (should have yesterday, but I apparently don't know how to copy down all the characters of my randomly generated password)

Martin Pitt​@Ryan Greene Well we can't solve stupidity 😛

AchitaLin​Hi there

Jess Smith​Hello from Ohio

Ryan Greene​man...neither Joseph or I know what to say to that

TheBurnsTech​woahhhhh lol left hand talk here

maclover​Hello from Milwaukee!

novak miler​Howdy

Taavi Hölttä​Hello from Finland 😃

iamjohnbarker​Morning Joseph!

novak miler​Joseph. That camera can't stack. Send it to me

James Pugh​good afternoon from the Uk

iamjohnbarker​Hello from (also) Sunny Sweden

Moonbase808​Good morning/afternoon from Germany

TheBurnsTech​lol so true here in PA

jba77​lol

jba77​Hi btw

Alenka Vdovič​Hi ati

TheBurnsTech​with the 1-day 4-seasons

Zimema Mhone​Why.... helloooooQ

Mark Schneider​Any Bandh Orders getting info out there?

jba77​lots of sun in denmark today

FuzeDzn​Cameras actually went out early. Weren't expected for another few days

James Pugh​first time watching the live feed, hope the photo bracket works today!

Marvin_PA​I'm sat here with my very own GH5 😃

novak miler​Get a pc

Martin Pitt​@PhotoJoseph Get a PC 😉

Jon Morby​where is your mobile (cell) phone when it happens?

Rambalac​@Martin Pitt 😉

TheBurnsTech​sounds like a bluetooth radio hardware issue in the mac issue

Ryan Greene​@Martin Pitt good luck with that. He used to work for Apple

AchitaLin​What's your model and year of your imac

Jon Morby​I've had customers who complain their computer drops the internet / etc ... turns out their cell phone was next to the base unit and the 2.4Ghz radio interferred

Martin Pitt​@PhotoJoseph It's called that bug called MacOS 😉

TheBurnsTech​wow, i really need to pay attention to my typing and word order lol

Jess Smith​We only have that problem when the batteries are low

Rambalac​I'm making software for windows 10 to remotely control Lumix cameras

Zimema Mhone​Happens to me once or twice a week. Imac 2012

PatRizzle​Hi from germany

FPVHI Hawaii​Finally made a live stream! Aloha from Maui

Jess Smith​On my iPad will lose the "h" key occasionally.

TheBurnsTech​you can take your sunshine and.... send it my way

FuzeDzn​@PhotoJoseph you can just say the Fuze part of my name 😛 Ignore the rest

Jon Morby​@PhotoJoseph ok .. so not an RF interference issue then .... hmmm

Samson C. B Lau​It is the bug alway happen on iMac, Mac mini, even apple make some bug fix 😴

iamjohnbarker​Sounds like a specific issue with your iMac, do the peripherals work on other macs?

Martin Pitt​@PhotoJoseph To be fair it also happens on my Windows 10 with Sony Xperia Z5

FuzeDzn​Never had that issue on my Late 2014 macbook pro

iamjohnbarker​I believe it used to happen on my older iMac too so who knows

Nick Dollins​Any chance you will test focus stacking from GH5 on jewelry with fine details? That would be awesome.

TheBurnsTech​WIRES please, im not a fan of wireless peripherals for this very reason

AchitaLin​Try this steps, I've faced kb and mouse BT problem too on imac 21.5" 2013 too.

FuzeDzn​See a tiny bit of detail, not blown out though

Marvin_PA​no zebras here 😃

AchitaLin​I cant post link = =

Martin Pitt​@PhotoJoseph A little texture on collar

J. D. Ross, Jr.​Can't see texture.

iamjohnbarker​Not peaking but not a whole lot of detail in the middle

TheBurnsTech​lol kids and poo

TheBurnsTech​OOOOOH Pooh

Marvin_PA​rofl

Martin Pitt​Hi little Joseph!

Zimema Mhone​I thought you meant the other poo...

Zimema Mhone​...got worried.

jba77​omg

jba77​😀

TheBurnsTech​lol

Jess Smith​I love Winnie the Pooh. I still have mine from when I was a baby. 40+ yrs old

AchitaLin​unpair bt device, reset PRAM, reset SMC, safe boot and remove plist in safeboot.

Martin Pitt​Would the HDMI issue be considered a software bug. Surely they could work around that in firmware updates?

TheBurnsTech​hmm could that hdmi issue cause issues for anyone using an external monitor when using focus stacking?

TheBurnsTech​not sure if thats common practice

Martin Pitt​@TheBurnsTech interesting comment

Marvin_PA​can anyone confirm if Lr will work with GH5 RAW files?

TheBurnsTech​focus stacking only works in 6k photo mode?

FuzeDzn​@Marvin_PA it does, you might need to download an update

Rambalac​6K does not work because 6K video is not supported by HDMI

Marvin_PA​Have bought it yet, wanted confirm it will before letting the moths out, thanks.

TheBurnsTech​i 95% use my cameras for video so im still learning the photo stuff lol

Marvin_PA​Haven't

FuzeDzn​Camera RAW has been updated to work with the .RW2 files. LR should have an update too for it

Marvin_PA​thx, FuzeDzn

Danmark Digger​Joseph do you have a paypal please??

Martin Pitt​@FuzeDzn I was only looking last night for something that supported .rw2 files

Floris​Good day from the Netherlands, great that you will get it right now, although yesterday was a lot of fun 😉

FuzeDzn​@Martin Pitt I don't use LR myself but Camera RAW got an update for the files and Adobe DNG Converter also. So you could go from RW2 to DNG if you wish
Martin Pitt​@PhotoJoseph Yay it works!

TheBurnsTech​OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH thats neat

Terry Brooks​Wooohooo 😃

Omar Carrillo​jajaja wooo!

Marvin_PA​🙌

Martin Pitt​*claps claps clap*

Omar Carrillo​😍

Andrej ROBEK​late again

Bernardo Silva​Hey Joseph! Can you quickly explain what "i.Resolution" and "i.Dynamic" does? Thanks!

Floris​Hoera! as we in Dutch say (as you may remember from the your Amsterdam days)

Jess Smith​👏👏👏👏

Floris​But can you do focus stacking with the app as an external monitor?

igodhoargod​👍👍

Hurba Provisual​is it working today then?

novak miler​@joseph thanks for this

Rambalac​App will block liveview when camera is shooting

TheBurnsTech​AHHHHH using the app for focus stacking, IMO, would be better... i dont use external monitors anyway but i was curious about the hdmi issue

FuzeDzn​@PhotoJoseph From what i recall a bunch of features can't be controlled from the app including 6K Photo. I never tried it but it wouldn't surprise me

Hurba Provisual​HDMI who would have thought that...

Hurba Provisual​@TheBurnsTech The new ninja from atomos is the first external monitor-recorder that is really interesting!

Ryan Greene​@Hurba Provisual yea...he didn't actually see those comments yesterday until after the show

Floris​The same here @TheBurnsTech I'm also just curious about the HDMI issue. And I'm just wondering if the app could give a solution.

TheBurnsTech​@PhotoJoseph are you still running preproduction firmware?

FuzeDzn​@PhotoJoseph I am testing it now, will report back soon

André Pêga​Hi guys! 😃

TheBurnsTech​work

TheBurnsTech​works for me

Rambalac​Check firmware version in settings

Rambalac​Production is 1.0

Martin Pitt​Random question @PhotoJoseph. At what age did you start getting involved in photography?

TheBurnsTech​ooooh good question

Hurba Provisual​really cool

FuzeDzn​@PhotoJoseph I have checked. The App can control bracketing. Works with only Exposure and Focus

FuzeDzn​So there is a solution

Mark Schneider​Can you address previous show extension tubes on primes vs a long telephoto.

Martin Pitt​wow 😃

Marvin_PA​Could you show how it works with expose?

André Pêga​The new atomos really worth it? I think the gh5 recorder is very good for most of the situations.

Mark Schneider​yes

Floris​Cool @FuzeDzn thank you for checking 😃

AchitaLin​Please light up the white skull so exposure bracketing would be easy to understand

TheBurnsTech​wow the options available are just mind blowing. ive never gotten deep into my settings on the gh4

MortallicA91​Were you aware of the green/magenta micro blocking on the gh4? How it compares now with the gh5?

Zimema Mhone​Off topic.. What are your feelings bout shooting M43 vs full fame. I know you have used M43 for instagram photos, but could the GH5 with a speedbooster compete? @PhotoJoseph

TheBurnsTech​I've explored them but i've only adjusted settings i need for my use

Floris​Interesting, but why would you use white balance bracketing?

Bernardo Silva​Its there, near the white balance

Bernardo Silva​it says BKT and a wrench

FuzeDzn​@PhotoJoseph Post Focus does work on the app however you cannot change the focus point from the phone. Same for the 6k Photo Mode, it can be used on the App but you cannot go through the frames

MortallicA91​12: Were you aware of the green/magenta micro blocking on the gh4? How it compares now with the gh5?

MortallicA91​dam, sorry for duplicate comment

Rambalac​@PhotoJoseph Try to hold shutter button

MortallicA91​Can you WB by shooting at a white plane and then find out what's its white balance?

Danmark Digger​Take a look paypal later and massage 😃

Rambalac​massage?

Martin Pitt​lol ^

Martin Pitt​You do know his wife is watching 😃

Danmark Digger​SMS¨

André Pêga​Ok! excelent explanation 😃 THANKS

Bushido Photo, LLC​Are you aware of the Voltron mode in the GH5?

Zimema Mhone​Wasnt a negative!

Zimema Mhone​Loved you mercedes shots!

Bernardo Silva​What is your favorite settings for stills? On color profile, highlights and shadows, etc?

Rambalac​Raw is much easier than wb bracketing

Martin Pitt​@Zimema Mhone As a Mercedes driver, I found those shots great 😃

Zimema Mhone​Just wondering about bigger GH5 sensor..

Zimema Mhone​Damn, touched a nerve.

Hurba Provisual​@Zimema Mhone Same size sensor, less crop due to better processor and stuff

Bernardo Silva​Thanks man!!! 😀

Hurba Provisual​Great addictive community around here now 😀

Zimema Mhone​@Hurba Provisual will speedbooster work?

Floris​I'm looking forward to the white balance bracketing show 😃 Even though I will not use it very often.

Martin Pitt​Have a great weekend Ryan and Joseph!

Ryan Greene​@Zimema Mhone he get's a lot of Micro4/3ds haters in here

Ryan Greene​@Martin Pitt you too

Hurba Provisual​@Zimema Mhone Metabones fixing XL firmware, should be fine I believe

JIX SAW​Try use the image app if you have something there handy

Floris​The Netherlands will be sunny, have a great weekend.

FuzeDzn​Better show today compared to yesterday 😀 Catch you next time Joseph

Marvin_PA​could you do a show with setup of GH5 for action photo/video ?
Hurba Provisual​but dont take my word on it until released 😀

mrlawlie​Great show~! Good weekend!

Zimema Mhone​@Ryan Greene I guess so. But wasnt hating

Zimema Mhone​just wondering

Ryan Greene​@Zimema Mhone it's all okay.

Hurba Provisual​Ryan nice to see your account as admin
Hi, was wathching live. I asked a question about the new sensor 'upgrde' (read out) of the GH5 and I think it was taken the wrong way;/ I was only wondering, as someone who owns a GH4 and never shot with a full frame, if you felt the GH5 new sensor's improved read out usage bridges a bit of the gap between full frame (APS-C for video) and M43s. I was wondering what would happen if you applied a speedbooster (for video) to this scenario - would we approach near full frame? Thats all... sorry if it came out wrong, I think its just another selling point for the GH5.
However, I am also aware that this is a subjective thing - do you notice a difference, is the question I should have asked. I will watch your video about M43s now!
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