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Example: Shallow Stack for Sharpness in Narrow Zone (Blue Engine on Green Machine)
This close-range shot is difficult to make sharp even at f/13 because the projecting surfaces are just too far from the gauges area. The engine and its various parts will be persuasive only if crisp and even if shot at f/13 of f/16 for depth of field, the fine metallic and paint texture would be significantly degraded by diffraction. By using f/9, most of the brilliance can be retained.
Thus this example is a “shallow stack” siutation where the goal is to make a sharp image across the front area of the engine and its parts. Sharpening the background would not only have required more frames, it would have made a less attractive image.
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Focus-stacked image, 3 frames
NIKON D810 + Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon
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