Seen in the Official launch video : A7R5 will have focus bracketing . Let's see how close to full Focus Stacking it will be...
It looks like this is the same implementation as Nikon had with its Focus stacking(at least with D850 and Z series as well i believe) AFAIK :
Extract from Albert Dros article:
How focus bracketing works in the camera: You simply select it in the shooting menu where you would normally select normal bracketing as well. It’s directly listed under that, so very fast to access. You can then select how many photos the camera will take. You can actually just put a very high number, as the camera will simply stop taking photos when it reaches infinity focus. You can also select a number from 1 to 10 on the distance in between the shots. This is a bit cryptic and I have tested a bunch of numbers, but when using a wide focus length (around 12-18mm) you are mostly fine putting it at number 10 (widest distance), but if you are shooting with telephoto you may want to put it to 5 or lower. When you are focus stacking with a macro lens, I recommend a very low number.
You then select the first focus point, the closest one to the camera. The camera will then simply shoot all the focus points from the first selected focus point to infinity. This will result in a number of photos with different focus points that you can then later stack together (in Photoshop or Helicon focus for example) to get a perfect sharp image from front to back. To have the camera do the focus points for you saves you a lot of time doing it yourself manually and most importantly: will make sure you don’t forget any focus points. People that occasionally use focus stacking will know what I’m talking about. It’s very fast to set up, and you can choose if you want the focus stack in a separate folder so you can easily identify it later on your computer."
Interesting the A7RV uses a new "AI Processor" for AF. Obviously it's not a simple firmware update that can be added to other cameras, even the A1. It remains to be seen how the RV's AF works in real life compared to that of the A1. Hope they will at least give the A1 the focus bracketing feature via FW update.
You can buy a very clean used A1 for slightly more than this new. Not sure I see the value of the A7R5 at launch given this, but that’s just me, especially if you don’t need the video features.
mcbroomf wrote:
Yeabut, my existing Sony bodies won't do auto focus bracketing which is the feature I would like....
Just giving you a hard time! This is definitely a good feature add for Sony.
It's probably the same as it was on the RIV. 10fps mechanical compressed, probably 6 uncompressed. Sony's never updating their mechanical shutter so it's not even worth mentioning. Dultimate wrote:
Is there a video of a comparison somewhere?
What is the fps on this? I can't find that right now/
