I wanted the longer exposure to blur the water. You just set up pixel shift and say whether you want 4 shots (gives you full color at each pixel, no change in resolution) or 16 shots (full color at each pixel with more resolution). I think all 16 shots use the same exposure params as the first. Each file is an ARW file, but you need software to work the magic of combining them.
I would suggest using Sony Imaging Edge Viewer as it has the new feature for the a1 and a7R V to better handle motion. I suspect this shot wouldn't have turned out as well without that feature. Literally the viewer is just building the ARQ file, it's not an editor. And then to avoid using the Sony editor, I used PixelShift2DNG to get a linear DNG. Then you can use most software you're already using (Lightroom, C1 I believe, etc.)
PixelShift2DNG can also do the work that the Sony viewer does, but it doesn't have that new stabilize capability.
hanay78 wrote:
Tim, very impressive! Each of the 16 photographs has an exposition of 3.4s? Can the camera generate the ARW files? or it must be forcefully carried out by the "Imaging Edge Viewer" software?
tsdevine wrote:
Used Sony Imaging Edge Viewer with the stabilize option checked to output an ARQ file. Then used PixelShift2DNG to take it into Lightroom. Then did some color and exposure work in Photoshop, sharpened in Topaz Sharpen AI.
The detail is stunning. I had no expectation that this would have worked so well, especially for this type of subject.
