Peter47628

Hi, as you know I'm a focus-stacker, and of curse I would like to see if and how this can be done with the FZ82. For this I bought a tube, which is screwed on the lens body and on the upper side filters or close-up lenses can be srewed in. (A feature which I wished the FZ1000 had it too). First result: The Canon 500D achromatc close up lens seems to harmonize with the Lumix camera-lens. And, because the big zoom, I will have a lot of possibilities to test, also with the raynoxes 150 and 250, too - hoping that they also will harmonize with the lens... My first test: simple honey-waffles - and I see that I have to set down ISO when stacking. Here the data are f/5,6, 1/30 sec, ISO 800 and 151 mm focal distance.

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Hi Chris, yes, I'm using different cameras. The Lumix FZ1000 will be detected automatically, the new FZ82 not - I think this is so cause AP has a group for it (FZ45 and similarI. Also do micro-stacks (with a chinese ocular-cam on my biolam-microscope) but convert them in tiff before they were combined in AP to a single photo 😊. Now, after two days, I know the parameters for RAW-developing - and the cam is great, even with it's little sensor. I add two to FHD resized pics - my first ones with this cam - taken from the same position out of my window. It's a look to duesseldorf's central-station, the distance is 1,3 km. Both taken without tripod, and the weather wasn't fine as you can see. ETTR (exposure to the right) - oh no, better not. Details could be lost then...

That's it, carl, many thanks 😊. Peter

Thank You, carl and Chris 😊 @ carl: I don't find the lens profiles there - must it be enabled to be visible anyhow ? Have made a screenshot, You see there are only 4 tabs instead of 5 at your example-pic, and lens is missing. I use the german version 1.8 of AP. Translated: Einfach = basic; and so on.. @ Chis: In the future I will have two cameras - the FZ1000 (works automatically), and the FZ82, where I'm searching for a solution to switch between them. . Sorry for the circumstances, but I think we're only a little step away from the solution 😊. Regards Peter

Thank You, Geoff 😊. At first I had a little problem cause I searched for the lens profile in the develop persona - but it is found in the photo persona among filters. And can`t be saved, each RAW file I have to develop first within this mistake and than correct it, right ? I found a function in the DP: "additional lens profiles will be loaded at start from the folder lens profiles". This is empty yet, but I don't know how to safe the profile (from photo persona) into it ?? Regards Peter

Hello, I own the Lumix FZ1000 and anything works fine. Now I ordered the FZ82 too. Haven't received it till now, but found some RAW's from it in the net. When I tried to develope them, I got vignettes at every corner - see example. Doing the same with SilkyPix 7Pro, no vignettes occured. I wonder if it is my mistake, that I had to adjust something in the prog before, or not ?? Have attached the RAW file too. Thx for helping 😊 Peter 01.RW2

Hello, I'm a little astonished and irritated. Own the AP Photo Workbook, and tried to download the first example - https//affin.co/mamtorDE. Doing this with Google Chrome, I was lead to an overview to some questions here in the forum. But when I did it with Firefox, I got the zip-file I needed (mam_tor.zip). A little bit funny...

Thx for welcoming You know - until 10/2019 I used AP for focus-stacking - macro and micro. Then I let remove the IR-Filter in front of the sensor from one of my Lumix FZ1000. Cause we had some days with good weather last october, I could shoot a lot of photos. Now in winter I restore slides which I had scanned years ago (and AP is even very good for doing), but I'm waiting for spring and summer

Thank You, Walt. It was so: First I opened the mydealz-link And there was said, one can open "welcome" in the AP help to get the JR-macros there. So I did, but had not checked the description, sorry

I got the info about that free pack not from serif, but from a friend, who found it at mydealz. Installed it - but for all those, where english is not the native language, a few words (one sentence) about each function of the different macros would be very helpfull. Clear to me directly as an infrared-photographer was "red/blue channel-swap" - the others learnig by doing ?

Not yet - cause this winter is not very cold this year. And if, you have to go outside then... I add a further macro-stack done with affinity.

No, it's not an apple, it's a small berry. And the second one - yes, is microskopy. A soluted crystal, recrystalled on a glass. With two crossed polarizing filters, manuell stacked for through-going sharpness. The former was ascorbine acid/vitamin C, this one is wine acid..

FocusStacker, Affinity also does Macro-Stacks - even Micro. I compared the results with them from Zerene - no difference .I attached some examples...

Hello, Nr. 1 is, specially for Infrared-photographers, to add the channel-mixer into the developing persona. Nr. 2 is the abillity, all the possibillities of the developing persona using for RAW-Staples/Stacks. Of course every pic needs fine-tuning, but that will be the second step then.. Nr. 3 is, when using focus-combination within RAW/DNG-files, that first the selected files come into the developing persona, and when I set my parameters there, then at second starting the combination process. Peter

I'm glad to hear thet, Stuart. Rocks, little crystal pieces, amber too, I bought last year and stacked a lot of them with my lumix fz1000. But that would be another thread, when showing some examples. Here is my microscope (without cam fitted, and without light). I modified the fine drive a little. One complete turnaround of the knob is 0,1 mm and there were 50 degrees, one step therefore is 0,002 mm. Now I have at maximum 400 degrees with that black wheel I mounted, 8 times finer. It is needed when I use 16x or 20x lenses, not generally.

Stuart, no rocks, it was a solution of ascorbine-acid powder in destilled water, what crystalled again then when I put a drop or two on a glas. You can also take ethanol + water for the solution. I've to learn a lot doing this within different crystalic powders, but it makes a lot of fun. Here are two examples when you put only the polarizer and analyzer on the right place into the light-beam - and when you place a piece of acryl there, too. But it must be molecularly deformed, as a cd-case for example. If not and it is only transparent, nothing happened and the colors will keep pastellic. It's ascorbine acid/vitamin C again.

It's the second I'll do beneath macro-stacks (indoor).I use a clockwork-lomo micorscope, build in 1973, an 21 mp ocular-cam hy-1138 from china, and for some photos I use not only polarizing filters but a cd-case for more colors. This pic consisted of 172 jpg's with a ROW 6,0/0,15 lens.

The problem seems to be solved today, I got no longer the remark that I use a test version.

@ gypsythief: You are using a Panasonic G9? I'm stacking with the FZ1000. But, if you use the ImageApp and GBracket too, stacking is nearly full automatic. You then set the middle sharpness on your cam, the nearest and the farest point on GBracket then, select the stepping (1-10), some parameters you can also change as ISO, shutter speed, aperture, and then GB does the rest. GB has been programmed by a German doctor (Holger Kremmin), and runs only in combination with the ImageApp - on IOS or Android. What you also can do, are HDR-Stacks (up to 7 series) and - HiRes-Stacks with the G9. The largest number of pictures for a stack is 1025 - and, if you do extremly close up, you get near to it. This is an example done with the Raynox 250 close-up lens mounted on my fz1000 - a butterfly-detail, consisting of 233 raw's, and a prepared beetle too, with raynox 150..

Hello, I'm using AP 1.6 since 11/12/2018, and was satified with it till now. You know, Im a focus-stacker, macro, and now micro too. When doing macro-stacks with my lumix fz1000, I could load up till 950 raw's. and AP did its work without a problem. For my microscope now I bought an ocular-cam, 21MP from china, model hayear HY-1138. At moment can pics only be saved as jpg, My first bigger stack with it, a dried sheet of a multi-colored rose, consists of 598 jpg's. But herewith AP hung up within arrange them in a line, after 3/4 was done. I got no remark of a mistake, waited 4 hours, but nothing happened. For getting the result I attached, I had to split the 598 jpg's into 24 parts, stacking them and the 24 results again. I wonder about the reason, cause raw's are much bigger than jpg's - and with raws, even more than 598, no problems occured till now. That's the result when I stacked twice. It'S ok, but too much work and time.

It's not only this problem. Here I hope that the update is found in the win store in a few days. But - I use AP nearly alway for focus stacking or merging, as it is called in the english version. Since a month or so not only macro-stacks, but micro-stacks too. This example were 598 jpg's taken with an ocular-cam (made in china), but I had to do 24 part-stacks and then stacking them again for the result. The program did not crash before I did so, it did 3/4 from steering (hope it's the correct word), and then for about 4 hours nothing. When I do macro-stacks with my lumix fz1000 in raw, there could be a lot more of pics (over 900) and I never had a prob. iI is a dried sheet of a multi-colored rose, the serie taken with an 21MP ocular-cam HY-1138 and a zeiss mikrotar-4,5/30 rms-lens on a lomo microscope.

When I visited the windows store and searched for an update, I got the information that AP had been installed, but not what version. Funny, such unnecessary probs.

Hello, I use AP since 11 or 12/2018 and are more than satisfied with it. Have bought it without that code in win10-store. The update now to version 1.7 asks me for a code - I thought it would recognize that I've bought 1.6 over microsoft ? Best Regards P.Doepper