Moon focus stacking

[iamdlewis]

Thought I would try taking a focus stacking shot (4 step, 10 shots) of the moon tonight. The first stack from Helicon without doing any touching up kind of ended with a cool effect. The second is with some very quick erasing of the double but it still needs a little work.

• ILCE-1M2
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/16
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 640

• ILCE-1M2
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/16
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 640

 

[Jeffrey]

Nice moon. I didn't think that depth of field would be an issue for an object a few hundred thousand miles away, especially at f16.

 

[evacguy]

Thought I would try taking a focus stacking shot (4 step, 10 shots) of the moon tonight. The first stack from Helicon without doing any touching up kind of ended with a cool effect. The second is with some very quick erasing of the double but it still needs a little work.
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Fantastic shot of the moon, your 600mm reach does a great job. Not sure you would need to do focus stacking on it. Do you have a single sharp image to compare?

 

[iamdlewis]

• ILCE-1M2
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/16
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 640

• ILCE-1M2
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 640

Nice moon. I didn't think that depth of field would be an issue for an object a few hundred thousand miles away, especially at f16.

I'll probably put more thought into another shot sometime, probably use f6.3. It really was me wondering if it would even work at all.