Here are 100% crops of all six CombineZP methods and SAR's Extended DOF 2 showing problem areas:
1. rectangle_New-Out99999-DoStack[1,0,1]Crop.JPG:
http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/rectangle_New-Out99999-DoStack[1,0,1]Crop.JPG
2. rectangle_New-Out99998-DoSoftStack[1,0,1]Crop.JPG:
http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/rectangle_New-Out99998-DoSoftStack[1,0,1]Crop.JPG
3. rectangle_New-Out99996-DoWeightedAverage[1,0,1]Crop.JPG:
http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/rectangle_New-Out99996-DoWeightedAverage[1,0,1]Crop.JPG
4. rectangle_New-Out99995-PyramidWeightedAverage[1,0,1]Crop.JPG:
http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/rectangle_New-Out99995-PyramidWeightedAverage[1,0,1]Crop.JPG
5. rectangle_New-Out99994-PyramidDoStack[1,0,1]Crop.JPG:
http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/rectangle_New-Out99994-PyramidDoStack[1,0,1]Crop.JPG
6. rectangle_New-Out99993-PyramoidMaximumContrast[1,0,1]Crop.JPGhttp://www.general-cathexis.com/images/rectangle_New-Out99993-PyramoidMaximumContrast[1,0,1]Crop.JPG
7. SAR's Extended DOF 2:
http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/FocusStackedCircuitBoardCrop.jpg
Regarding leakage of white lettering from backgroung into blue foreground only 5 is worse than 7. But, 7 shows the most detail and least artifacts of any in the dark background close to blue foreground.
chuxter wrote:
> I'm not sure where to put this, but there are a couple of new focus
> blending software products out there...
>
> There appear to be 3 choices: Helicon Focus, tufusepro, and Combine
> ZP. I downloaded Helicon Focus several months ago. It worked well,
> but soon it reverted to putting a watermark on the results...OK,
> let's just purchase it...oops, $30 for 1 year and $115 for
> lifetime...that seems a bit steep for a very specialized program that
> I'd only use occasionally.
>
> So what else is available?
>
> Found tufuse and tufusepro by Max Lyons. Tried it. It didn't
> compensate for FL changes of macro lens as it's focused! It also does
> exposure blending, but I haven't tried that yet. tufusepro is free.
>
> Found Combine ZP by Alan Hadley. I had an earlier version of Combine
> Z that was worthless to me...it was specifically intended for
> microscopy and didn't seem to work well with macrophotography for
> some reason. But this appears to be a new version. In fact, Combine Z
> has been extensively changed since my last look. It worked really
> well! And Combine ZP is free.
>
> Here is a comparison of these software products:
>
> http://www.here-ugo.com/FocusBlendingDemo.jpg
>
> For some reason, Helicon Focus lightens the result a bit...Combine ZP
> did it better.
>
> --
> Charlie Davis
> Nikon 5700, Sony R1, Nikon D300
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