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The composition benefits from having everything sharp near to far. At f/9, there are two unpalatable options: either the tree is badly blurred with focus in the distance, or the tree is sharp with blurred background: the range is too great for to achieve sharpness by stopping down. Stopping down to f/13 would only make a less blurred image, not a sharp one
In the full-res stacked image at actual pixels, a diamond-shaped road sign with a dark symbol inside it can be seen on the road far below along Tuolumne Meadows—super sharpness. If only the camera could have been 50 to 70 megapixels with SuperRes pixel shift mode.
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Focus-stacked image, 2 frames
NIKON D810 + Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon
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