Guys-

I'm not sure how many of you have looked at last month's N-Scale Railroading's Helicon Focus software article by Rich Yourstone (The same article was reprinted in Model Railroading magazine last month too).

Anyhoo, the software is now available for the Mac, and I downloaded a sample of it to play with. Here's how it works-
You take a series of photos, changing the focus slightly in each one, so the focus shifts toward the background with each digital photo. Then, open the Helicon Focus software, and hit "run".

The software looks at each photo, deletes what's out-of-focus, and pastes it on top of the one before it, building a perfectly-focused photo out of all the images.

Here's a sample- the "Before" photo is the best I can do with my camera shooting at F32 for a couple of seconds. The "After" photo is about 8 photos stitched into one. The models are N-scale, and the background is about 4 feet from the camera, and the bush in the foreground is only a few inches in front of it....

You will probably start seeing a LOT of model photos in magazines run through this software before long!

Have fun,

-Phil

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