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Focus Stacking Gains in Sharpness vs Single Frame, File Size as a Proxy Measurement
Compressed file sizes are an accurate proxy for total image detail, because more detail means less compressibility, and less detail means the image is more easily compressed.
There is always some overhead—file sizes include the size required to compress non-detail, such as grain and color. So the true gains in real sharpness are larger than the sizes indicate.
Detail is the sum of many factors, but the key ones are depth of field, micro contrast, losses in sharpness and micro contrast from diffraction, sharpening level, and noise from the sensor/camera. See also:
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- Eases into photographic challenges with an introductory section.
- Covers aspects of digital sensor technology that relate to getting the best image quality.
- Technique section discusses every aspect of making a sharp image handheld or on a tripod.
- Depth of field and how to bypass depth of field limitations via focus stacking.
- Optical aberrations: what they are, what they look like, and what to do about them.
- MTF, field curvature, focus shift: insight into the limitations of lab tests and why imaging performance is far more complex than it appears.
- Optical aberrations: what they are, what they look like, and what to do about them.
- How to test a lens for a “bad sample”.
Intrigued? See Focusing Zeiss DSLR Lenses For Peak Performance, PART ONE: The Challenges, or (one topic of many) field curvature.
