Canon EOS RP Focus Stacking

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Canon EOS RP Focus Stacking

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Has anyone tried this? Any thoughts? What lens have you used? Any examples?

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Silly question: what does "RP" mean?

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rjlittlefield wrote:what does "RP" mean?
It is camera model name.
https://www.dpreview.com/products/canon ... anon_eosrp

(R is for new ILC camera line and P is something like Prosumer ... i think that)

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Aha! I had missed that one. The acronym generator inside my head was suggesting things like "Reversed Prime", which seemed crazy enough that I thought I should just ask.

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Re: Canon EOS RP Focus Stacking

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davholla wrote:Has anyone tried this? Any thoughts? What lens have you used? Any examples?
Yes. Recently started with it and works a treat.

* Canon EOS RP + Sigma 150mm Macro
* Canon EOS RP + Sigma 150mm Macro + Nikon CFI Plan Achromat 10x (MRL00102)
* Canon EOS RP + Sigma 150mm Macro + Nikon BE Plan Achromat 4x (MRN70040)

all work fine. The in-camera stacking software works fine even outdoors once you got used to it. USB-remote control works fine in studio setup. Stepping size with the Sigma 150mm in the above configurations is good for required DoF.

My setup now is basically just the camera, bean bags, lighting. No stepper motors or other complexities.

(I'm a hobbyist)

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That's great. Wish Panasonic would have figured that out for their S1R.

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Re: Canon EOS RP Focus Stacking

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Thomas wrote: ...

USB-remote control works fine in studio setup.

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Does that mean it works with EOS Utility?

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Thomas, have you tried to process the stack with Canon DPP?

After my last update I can see a focus stack option in its menu but it doesn't work with the files generated with my 7D (I expected this behavior)
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Re: Canon EOS RP Focus Stacking

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ray_parkhurst wrote:Does that mean it works with EOS Utility?
Yes.

* Canon EOS RP > USB cable > Windows 10 > EOS Utility 3

Use:
* Go to EOS Utillity 3 > Remote Shooting
* Set Focus bracketing = Enable
* Number of Shots = xx (shots for your stack)
* Focus increment = xx (focus step size between shots)
* Click OK

You can use live-view to set your starting focus point. When you take your shot, it dutifully fires off the sequence of, eg, 150 shots.

The shots are taken rapidly (several per second) and without shutter vibration, so you can take a stack of say 200 shots in maybe a minute or two.

If the end-point does not cover the required range, then you can fire off another set.


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Pau wrote:Thomas, have you tried to process the stack with Canon DPP?
Briefly only a while back.

I can't formally judge its performance but think Zerene and Helicon likely give better results. Didn't spend much time on it. Not sure why your image source (7D) would be relevant.

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Post by Thomas »

Pau wrote:After my last update I can see a focus stack option in its menu but it doesn't work with the files generated with my 7D
Not sure if my previous comment actually answered the second part of your question. If you're talking about creating stacks:

You can't use EOS Utility 3 to create a stack with cameras that don't have this feature. I had to write an application some time ago that injected the required commands into the EOS Utility application, to get around this, so I could create stacks with an Canon EOS 80D without clicking myself silly.

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Thomas wrote:If you're talking about creating stacks:

You can't use EOS Utility 3 to create a stack with cameras that don't have this feature.
Sure, I was referring not to take the pictures but to process them as stack.
I use Zerene and I just was curious about the new DPP function.
I didn't expect it working as new DPP features are not availabe for older cameras files in most cases, even when they could be easy to implement like some lens corrections.
I had to write an application some time ago that injected the required commands into the EOS Utility application, to get around this, so I could create stacks with an Canon EOS 80D without clicking myself silly.
Did you make it working inside EOS Utility or outside it (like mouse clicker)?
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Post by Thomas »

Pau wrote:Did you make it working inside EOS Utility or outside it (like mouse clicker)?
External. User input / Mouse-click injection.

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Re: Canon EOS RP Focus Stacking

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Thomas wrote:
davholla wrote:Has anyone tried this? Any thoughts? What lens have you used? Any examples?
Yes. Recently started with it and works a treat.

* Canon EOS RP + Sigma 150mm Macro
* Canon EOS RP + Sigma 150mm Macro + Nikon CFI Plan Achromat 10x (MRL00102)
* Canon EOS RP + Sigma 150mm Macro + Nikon BE Plan Achromat 4x (MRN70040)

all work fine. The in-camera stacking software works fine even outdoors once you got used to it. USB-remote control works fine in studio setup. Stepping size with the Sigma 150mm in the above configurations is good for required DoF.

My setup now is basically just the camera, bean bags, lighting. No stepper motors or other complexities.

(I'm a hobbyist)
Interesting, the Sigma 150 mm is not even supported, have you tried this free hand?

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Re: Canon EOS RP Focus Stacking

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davholla wrote:Interesting, the Sigma 150 mm is not even supported, have you tried this free hand?
Not sure what you mean with "not supported". It works in all usage scenarios I have thrown at it so far and it's pin sharp.

* Sigma 150mm 1:2.8 APO MACRO DG HSM

Bought quite a number of years ago.

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