I was at the BENHS AGM meeting yesterday and they had a talk on digital microphotography covering the use of focus image stacking. This is basically achieved by taking a series of images where various parts of the picture are in focus. Software then merges the sequence of photos together using the parts from each photograph that are in focus to make up a new image. It’s intended as a solution to the problem of lack of depth of field when doing macro-photography.
The dissection group use the software a lot for improving their slide photos but at this talk they were talking about using it for pinned specimens so I thought I’d have a go with a live specimen. Here are the results of my first attempt. Notice that all of the picture is pretty much in focus (click on picture to see full-size image).
What was the software that was used Tony?
Neil
CombineZM – it’s free software. Although I think there’s a newer version – CombineZP – that is a replacement for it. I’ve not tried that yet, although I’ll give it a try shortly.