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Example: Two-Frame Stack (Spuller Lake, Zeiss Loxia 35/2)
The composition benefits from having everything sharp near to far, but without focus stacking there would be no way to render the foreground gneiss erratic sharply, even at f/16, and that would degrade the entire image too much.
Zerene Stacker PMAX mode delivered a ready to use image with the command. No obvious stacking artifacts are found, though there is a blurry area just behind and to the left of the foreground gneiss boulder: a 3rd frame would have been helpful.
The lingering slightly blur in the extreme bottom left is a lens weakness (the near-focus frame was on the white gneiss erratic near lower left).
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Focus-stacked image, 2 frames
Sony A7R II + Zeiss Loxia 35mm f/2 Biogon
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