Olympus Tutorial: How to do Focus Bracketing ep.18

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How to setup your Olympus camera for "Focus Bracketing" then process them with or without photoshop!

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[truepagaming]

Another outstanding video ! You are my #1 source for learning how to get the most out of my Olympus camera. Always easy to follow and understand. Thank you.

[BatuHijau]

t hanks so much Rob, you have made this so simple and straight forward. Olympus should pay you for your tutorials.

[FredrickII]

Thanks Rob for this excellent tutorial. I never really understood focus bracketing until I watched this. Thanks for clarifying yet another of the many mysteries of Olympus photography.

[edwinscox]

Rob, Thanks for doing a great job explaining and illustrating focus stacking. I have never done it but now I am motivated to give it a try. Your tips with the finger point and the flat hand are excellent for saving time and eliminating frustration by bracketing each set of stacked photos.

[wolfgangkoter]

Thank you for the informations, and the slowly, explict notation without any modern
hysteric way of speaking.
Greetings from Germany. ;)

[MichaelReichardt]

Was very helpfull for me, the "turning point" was the explanation to go backl in the menue (focus stacking) and confirm step by step up to bracketing. Good speech and English to understand

[janousekvladimir]

You are a very good teacher! Thank you!!

[zediogoamareleja]

Hi Rob you make my day..finally I undestood the nuts and bolts of this great feature.
Thanks for your time and cristal clear explanation..
Big thumbs up

[jojipt]

This is the first time in my life i understand what's bracketing.. thanks..

[superbrokul]

I just tried out the focus bracketing function on my Oly EM-5 mark II and it worked as smoothly as you described it. Also the software you recommend is very easy to use. Thanks you for the tutorial!

[jenniferb]

My my my… this is too much fun! I want to try to sharpen my photos and this is just another tool. Rob you are wonderful, thank you.

[gusshultz]

What a fantastic video. You are a great teacher and I look forward to every video you do and learn something each time.

[smkunder]

Another great one, Rob. You sure are helping me understand my Olympus better.

[elke]

Thanks for the excellent video. The tip with the focus point at the beginning and the hand at the end is great. I could have actually figured it out myself. But I haven't. I will do ist now.

[TheSteveGullick]

Oh, brilliant once again. You are my 'go to ' tutor for anything olympus. Thanks so much!

Keep up the good work.

[barrysperonello]

Another interesting (at least to me) finding that I haven't seen discussed. I tested 2 Panasonic prime lenses and found that the 14 mm f2.5 lens worked normally, but the 20mm f1.7 incremented its focusing from the back to the front rather than from the front to the back. I had to focus on the back of the ruler and the camera moved the focus progressively closer to the itself during focus bracketing. Picolay processed the images normally even though they were in reverse order.

[derekjones]

Thanks again Rob. I just tried some focus stacking on my EM10 MkII, as per your guidelines. The camera bit was fine but I had problems using Lightroom and Photoshop for the processing - too slow and complicated and it never really worked for me, despite the fact that I followed instructional videos on the subject. However, I downloaded Picolay as you suggested and it worked beautifully and it was dead simple. As you comment, though, it's a good idea to ask it to produce a few finished stacked photos, as some will have artefacts. I got it to do four and one was pretty spot on, no artefacts.

[parsleylion]

A really good video this, nice and steady, clear instructions at a pace that allows for understanding and absorbing each point. I liked this, thankyou.

[AaronFait]

Got my new Em5 Mark II, thanks for the great tips on how to customize the menu

[justmythought]

Didn't even knew my cheap little Olympus can do this LOL
Thank you for the video.