Update – Aug 2020: I’m happy to note that Fuji has significantly improved their focus stacking option by providing “automatic” focus stacking in their most recent cameras. You select a starting point, ending point using manual focus, hit start and the camera will collect the right number of images for your lens and focal length. Really cool.
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This post is specific to Fuji users, so everyone else can have a break. We’ll see you in a couple weeks.
In mid-2018, Fuji provided an upgrade to the firmware of it’s X-series of cameras. Known for adding new features and functions, Fuji users were delighted to see the addition of new menu options and one particular update: the addition of in-camera focus “bracketing”.
Unfortunately, there was a series of missteps with the upgrade and it was initially retracted, then re-released, which is a surprise for a company that prides itself on its quality options for photographers.
Even though it was corrected, Fuji made another mistake in not providing useful information to help us get the most of the upgrade. This post is specifically about focus bracketing. Continue reading “Fuji’s Focus Bracketing Explained”
What does that have to do with photography? As it turns out, every part of a digital image is a set of values – for size, dimensions, camera settings, colour space, etc. We’ve long had the ability to manipulate any one value to our liking through the sliders we see in modern editing software. Now it seems we also have the ability to redefine broad swaths of data at once. Find out how. 
In the past, this would have caused me to breathe more rapidly, excitement building, as I surveyed the options ahead. Not this time. Not for any of them. And I’ve been trying to figure out why. 
What are filters and why are they separate from adjustments? And what the heck is rasterizing anyway? Or the difference between “rasters” and “vectors”? And what is “rendering”? And of course, the single most important concept – non-destructive vs. destructive editing.
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