In-camera focus stacking works similarly to HDR in that it’s a form of computational photography, where a camera quickly shoots multiple photos and combines them to produce a desired effect. For focus ...

I’ve done my fair share of focus stacking in my time. Not only is it a laborious process, but you’re never quite sure you’ve got it right until you reach the editing stage, at which point, it’s too ...

Playing around with close-up photography is a lot of fun, especially once you have invested in a dedicated macro lens for your camera. However, macro lenses may not be able to give you as much depth ...

For more than a hundred years, cameras have shared a frustrating limitation with human eyes: they can only focus on one distance at a time. Photographers learned to live with blur, turning it into an ...

I've been reviewing hardware and software, devising testing methodology and handed out buying advice for what seems like forever; I'm currently absorbed by computers and gaming hardware, but ...

Focus stacking is a photographic technique in which multiple exposures are taken of a subject, with the focus distance set to different lengths. These images are then composited together to create a ...

Smartphone cameras 2026 focus on AI-powered features, computational photography, and advanced sensors, delivering pro-grade ...

After bringing Post Focus technology to its cameras last year, Panasonic is now letting the camera do the heavy lifting with a built-in focus stacking feature. Today, Panasonic is bringing its Post ...

Owners of Panasonic’s Lumix G7, GX8, and FZ300 1 cameras will get a little gift in the form of a free firmware update this morning. The update gives the cameras a new mode called “Post Focus,” which ...

Macro photography is the art of taking photos of things very close up, and ideally at great detail. Unfortunately cameras have poor depth of field at close ranges, so to get around this, many use ...

You won't believe it — I didn't — but the person responsible for keeping each and every shot of a movie in focus never looks through a camera lens. "No," says focus puller Baird Steptoe. "We do not ...