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When using focus stacking, how do you identify what files were in each stack when you import them into either Phocus or Lightroom

I have just started using focus stacking with the built in software in my Hasselblad X2D. The camera will take the number of designated frames that you tell it to take but it doesn't identify them as 1 of 3 or 2 of 3 it just gives them a number ie B00120 B00121 etc etc. Is there a simple way to know which image is the start and which image is at the end?
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I had the same dilemma, but with Olympus. After watching a Stewart Wood video on the tube, the answer was fairly simple. Just take a single frame with your hand infront of the lens and the same after you are happy with the number of shots you've taken.
 
mex said:
I had the same dilemma, but with Olympus. After watching a Stewart Wood video on the tube, the answer was fairly simple. Just take a single frame with your hand infront of the lens and the same after you are happy with the number of shots you've taken.
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Thank you Nigel.........thats what I will do
 
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mex said:
I had the same dilemma, but with Olympus. After watching a Stewart Wood video on the tube, the answer was fairly simple. Just take a single frame with your hand infront of the lens and the same after you are happy with the number of shots you've taken.
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My Olympus creates a merged frame after taking the stack, which is somewhat copped. If I am taking a series of stacked images, the franes are the ones between the camera created stacked, cropped images.
 
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Pound Coin said:
My Olympus creates a merged frame after taking the stack, which is somewhat copped. If I am taking a series of stacked images, the franes are the ones between the camera created stacked, cropped images.
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A max (IIRC) of 15 frames using in-body stacking, focus bracketing won't give you a stacked jpeg.
 
mex said:
A max (IIRC) of 15 frames using in-body stacking, focus bracketing won't give you a stacked jpeg.
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Ah, that's useful to know.
 
My panasonic G9ii does what panasonic call pixel shift. This takes several shots in one go and stitches them together in camera. The subject and camera mustn't move.
 
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realspeed said:
My panasonic G9ii dos what panasonic call pixel shift. This takes several shots in one go and stitches them together in camera. The subject and camera mustn't move.
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That's the handheld high resolution mode.
 
realspeed said:
My panasonic G9ii dos what panasonic call pixel shift. This takes several shots in one go and stitches them together in camera. The subject and camera mustn't move.
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That is for high resolution, not focus stacking.

The Panasonic does do focus stacking, you can set the number of shots, distance and direction of focus change
 
ndwgolf said:
When using focus stacking, how do you identify what files were in each stack when you import them into either Phocus or Lightroom
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When I do pano's and focus stacking, I focus on the ground, place my hand in front of lens and take a shot at both ends of the sequence.
 
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