![]() ![]() He is always extremely eager to help and always answers with precision. Rik is a gentleman and he is insanely knowlegeable about optics and has first hand experience with the whole process. You are also more than welcome to download these other programs, and test them yourself on your own stacks, and report your own findings here whereas the Adobe CS5 stacker met all of the challenges nearly perfectly and by far preserved the bokeh better, the color quality better, and was light years more accurate in its image alignment. while the Zerene Stacker diminshed the color and left dozens of artifacts. The results were that the Helicon-Focus destroyed the bokeh and left dozens of artifacts. I also purposely saved my files in the deepest, most complex color space possible to see how these other programs handled really-complex colors, and outputted them for print. I purposely chose a difficult subject, with a lot of curvy "ends" to it, because it doesn't challenge anybody to use a simple subject with just a few even, straight ends to it. You can download the full programs of the others for a free 30-day trial.Īs mentioned in the article, it was a 5-image combination, taken on a tripod (no focus rail). I'm a CS5 enthusiast and quite satisfied with their auto align, auto blend/focus stacking abilities, but I confess that I haven't tried the others.īeyond that, I am curious as to your set-up in this scenario.how many images involved/use of focusing rail/f/stop/lens/etc.? Are more images better? Macro Twin Flash MT-24EX, 430 EX II & 270 EX How does that impact or fulfill your own needs, I do not know.ĮF 24-105 L, EF 40mm, EF 85mm f1.8, EF 100mm L IS, MP-E 65 I think some of these programs work differently as to how they process the stack. I know Rik will promote his own program (very politely as always) and I have often read him saying certain aspects of stacking that Zerene will handle better than Helicon. I do not know what truly are the differences. usually enough to make my brain melt! If you do not already go on his forum, I strongly suggest you go and maybe ask your question there.īut, I know I have not really answered your question. Then buy the more affordable license (if you like the program), I think it was something like 100$ If you ever want to upgrade to the full version, you only pay the difference between your original license and the pro license, that is what Rik told me when I was contemplating an upgrade (when I got the stackshot).Īnother thing is that I find customer support to be excellent with Zerene (although I did not contact the other program companies). I tried it and still preferred to use the controls on the stackshot. Is there anything with the program that does not work for you that makes you want to change?Īlso, the full version of Zerene is not really necessary, the main difference is computer control of the stackshot automated rail and automated stacking as the shots are taken. ![]() ![]() Since you shoot tripod, your shots should perfectly allign, so I wonder if you really need a sofisticated software. so in other words, Zerene works perfectly for my own style of shooting. ![]() That option is a key factor for me, and I could not find anything comparable with the other programs. Since I shoot handheld, a lot of my shots do not perfectly allign, as you can imagine. I find the retouching tool in Zerene to be most excellent and for me that is the big thing as it is so useful. I am sure it works really well for some people, but not at all for me. I did not want to change, I was just curious with more experience if I could finally achieve something with this program. I did try Helicon again out of curiosity a while back and I still could not get anything to my liking. So I think it is just by default I started using it, I did not "compare" strenght or other things like that. Only with Zerene I started getting interesting results. When I started trying to stack two years ago, I tried Combine and Helicon and I could not get any good results at all. ![]()
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