Help with Focus Merge

[bodock4]

I everyone, I am very new to both photography and Affinity V2. I have had my camera and this software for only a couple of days now so I could use some help here please. 

I am trying to focus merge 22 pictures, when I select them, they all load into the new focus merge window. Once I hit ok and it goes through its process it then only shows 12 images in the source pallet. I have tried it a few times and it's the same thing every time and so the image is only in focus halfway as its missing half the images. Does anyone have any ideas?

[carl123]

Can you zip those 22 .ORF files and upload them to the forum?

[bodock4]

Here you go. Thank you for taking a look! I can't seem to find anything on it, but being new to this I might not know the right terms to use in searching.

Bodock Test.zip

[carl123]

Hi, I am seeing the same results as you

When opening and looking at the images individually I can see some that don't appear to have any part of the image in focus

I suspect that the Focus Merge is simply discarding images that have nothing in focus as far as it is concerned

Hopefully the support staff will confirm that is the case or propose another reason/solution

[David in Яuislip]

I'm using V1 so I converted them to dng first as V1 doesn't recognise the orfs from that camera
Focus merge used 18 images missing out _B260001, _B260020, _B260021, _B260022
I tried tif format:
tifs produced by imagemagick had the same result as the dng's
tiffs produced by Photo in a New Batch Job only _B260002 - _B260012 survived

I would try shooting the sequence again but with the closest shot covering the whole thing, this may help with image alignment, probably use smaller distance steps between each shot too
Zip file contains a full size 90% jpeg

FocusMerge-dng.zip

[bodock4]

That's probably the best approach here. I'll try re-shooting it with better focus over lap and remove any of the shots that have little or nothing in focus. Thank you both for the help, I'll let yall know how it goes.

[bodock4]

Thank you both. You were correct I needed to have better overlap on the focus and remove the one at the front with no focus at all.