#Cost of zerene focus stacker software
Thanks Kurt - these are just straight from the stacking software with no cleaning up or PP at all just to compare the outputs.Īgreed-there appears to be a bit of artifacts in the BG of the Zerene stack. Prefer the stack from Helicon in this case. Great shot and stack Brian, and nice comparison there. I still need to do a test to look at low contrast detail retention which can cause problems with focus stacking progs (zerene is very good at retaining low contrast detail) I still do a lot of focus stacking completely by hand It really does depend on the subject and the method of taking the photographs with zerene probably having the advantage for high detail deep stacks. I should add that this does not mean helicon will always give better results than Zerene. So overall I was very pleasantly suprised at the performance of Helicon which has come a long way since i first tried it. The other rather nice characteristic of helicon was it did not produce sensor spot trails (it seems to have an algorithm to remove them built in), these trails cause me more hassle when using zerene than anything else. The helicon focus stacks had slightly less haloing in every case with no noticeable differences in auto shot alignment. One example pair of shots below but all the stack comparisons had the same characteristics. On my slightly primitive core duo 2.8ghz, 2gb ram winxp machine, helicon was noticeably slightly faster at producing and then saving the stack With zerene I did my normal PMax type stack. The helicon interface was pretty intuitive (unlike the previous version I had tried) and I left it on default settings which is a dmap type stack.
I took 4 stack sets of around 5 to 7 shots each and stacked them in Helicon and zerene. Because I shoot by hand and because of the high contrast edges you get around drops, this can be quite a test for a focus stacking programme where you often get nasty halo rings. I tried a quick 2 shot focus stack of a holly leaf skeleton which zerene managed very well but helicon did not manage to auto align properly and I ended up with a lot of duplications - not a promising start.Īnyway yesterday morning I puposely did some shots of raindrops on columbine leaf formations for doing some test stacks. Anyway forward to the present time, and I got an offer over the weekend to try the latest version of Helicon focus (V5.1 X-64.
#Cost of zerene focus stacker series
I have not tried Heliconfocus focus stacking software for quite a few years, when I did try it, it did not seem to offer any advantage over the freeware combine series I was using at the time.
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