Awwwwwww…She’s beautiful Bertrick…
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Beautiful! 
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if you adopted me I could visit Australia for no cost to me
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Nice scarf d00d
Is she married d00d?
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… on the lookout for a sugar daddy, last I heard.
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A sad end for my polytunnel. I was going to sell it for a few quid anyway because I won’t be growing tomatoes anymore. All hopes of a sale were dashed when a large oak tree branch went through the covering. A result of the tree at the bottom of the garden being cut to size. I’ve taken it down for scrap now.
A far cry from its glory days 
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Tahli’s fur is unbelievably soft.
just anther go at photostacking
1/125sec -60mm focal length (120 MM IN FF)-aperture f4 -ISO 640- WB auto
I think this is the way to go for this kind of shots, as everything is in sharp focus. Just one thing and that is keeping the camera still or a non moving subject is not the ideal for this kind of photography
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Similar-ish from our back garden.
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Photostacking v Depth of field (DOF) v Focus Bracketing v Post Focus
So what actually happens with photostacking? bit tech but here goes
A photo is made up of pixels (small squares) all put together to make up the photo. Each pixel detectes and saves a different part of the photo in that colour to make the whole. The problem is focus, not every pixel will produce a sharp photo, it depends on the camera lens focusing on a specific point not all the of the photo
So some parts of the photo will be in focus but not all of it. So the depth of field (DOF) depends on how much is in focus in front and behind the part the the camera is focused on.
This is where photostacking is different and a great feature to have in a camera
When taking a photo in "stacking"mode it is just that, it stacks all the pixels together after shifting the focus area from pixel to pixel or area to area in the photo. The camera can take several pictures in one go, but moves the center of focus to different part of the photo (in my camera about 37 times) .
Then it reassembles them (takes around 5/6 seconds). now every part of the photo is sharp.
so as in my example the flower petals are sharp and the back as well as this nearest the camera.
Now I would like to ask Besoeker about the camera he used. My old Nikon D810 didn’t have this photostacking in the camera so had to rely on DOF and F.stops to get as best as posible overall sharpness.
In some cameras it may be called focus bracketing, but that may well rely on the photographer taking several photos and then let the camera assemble. A long and out of date way of doing it and not always successful.
With the panasonic G9ii it does this from one shot, I hopefully explained above
With the earlier G9 it was called Post Focus ( bracketing) where one had to hold down the shutter button for a period of time to take individual shots then reassemble them.
SO there is a terrific advantage with the G9ii over the original G9
Hi realspeed
Yes, understand the photostaking but it is not something I would use. I have enjoyed photography since I was about sixteen (now 78). The first was a Zorki, a cheap version of a Leica, Then, later, a Minolta with a single lens reflex, Now I have a Canon with three different lenses, Mostly I like nature these days::
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Gosh!
That rings a bell Besoeker…
I had one when I was seventeen, bit of a nightmare mechanically but the lens was decent as I remember.
Aye, it was a while back !
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I have never been a Canon fan always had Nikon. Apart fom the weight issue with FF lenses, having now gone M43 route and the latest in camera capabitities really was an eye opener for me.
Being still able to hold a camera steady with dual dual stablisation not only in the camera but also the lens working together makes photography a pleasure if now 80 years old.
Bit like changing jobs, doubtful if the right choice and realising it is the best move you ever made. Same with my leap in camera manufacturers, I never thought of leaving Nikon but I did and don’t regret it.
OK the Panasonic G9ii plus the 12-60mm elmarit lens new is not cheap (now £2,250 new) part exchange takes away a lot of the “Sting” out of the price. Not that it cost me that amount when I bought it.
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Well, I’m quite happy with the EOS Canon:
It’s a small spider…
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Excellent pics.
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