Digital BW, The Print

I, too, have both Zerene and Helicon Focus.  Zerene is the best.  I have been doing focus stacking for 15 years, before it was even called focus stacking.  Back then I used layers and masks in Photoshop.  Zerene will actully stack some of my old film scans Helicon will not.  Helicon has ghosting artifacts where, using the same files, Zerene does not.  Zerene takes approximately 4 seconds for each of my exposures in a stack: Helicon takes 2.  Other stacking programs which I tested 1-2 years ago either took much longer or produced much poorer results or both.  I have not looked at recent developments but both Helicon and Zerene had focus controller software.  At the time I decided that lugging and setting up a netbook for each session was too much for me.  Not enough payback since I was getting what I needed in terms of image quality.
BertGF

Bert GF Shankman
Flower Artistry
www.cameraflora.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale <stevekale@...> wrote:
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> I have both Helicon and Zerene.  I never use Helicon anymore. In my view, Zerene is leagues better and the support Rik offers via www.photomacrography.net is second to none.
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> (I built a rig with dual Stackshot rails)
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> On 29 Sep 2012, at 11:29, Ernst Dinkla wrote:
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> > Paul, getting back to this topic, with a Nexus 7 bought recently after 
> > its launch in EU there was my chance to use the Android DSLR Controller 
> > app made by Chainfire (actually a Dutch company J.B.Jongma) to control 
> > my 5D II. I guess the most feature rich DSLR controller available and 
> > still improving. Very impressed by it. You need a USB TGO cable for the 
> > Nexus or whatever compatible Android
> > 
> > http://dslrcontroller.com/
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> > Focus bracketing aboard since January with gradual improvements after 
> > that according the development log. Is nice and flexible in use.
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> > Did you use it?
> > What is the preferred stacker software now, Zerene was mentioned, 
> > Helicon too?
> > 
> > > 
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