Great video! It would be great if Sony would update their other cameras' firmware to support this.

Thank you for explaining focus stacking. I never really understood it, how it worked, or why I should use it until watching your vid.

At last a Sony with focus stacking! Years of waiting. Hope it trickles into the older bodies as well (A1. A7 IV). Why did it take so long to implement is beyond me

You can open it up directly into Ps by going to "File --> Script---> Open files into stack and, after the combining process, save it and then process the final photo in Lr.

Thanks Albert. I received this camera a week ago, I will try all your advice this weekend.

Finally a wake up from Sony after a long sleep … ?

Thank you so much for this wonderful video. I just got the A7RV and wasn't sure how to use the brilliant new focus stacking feature. This gave me an answer. Hope to see more videos like this and see five to the article on your website.

Lenses used to have a DOF scale on them. A DOF scale is a good way to show folks that a wide angle lens plus F11 or F16 means that everything from about 1 m out is in focus. Back in the film days photo journalists would often have a 35mm lens set at F11 or F16 with the focus taped or glued from 1m - then they just had to point and shoot. Plus for newspaper photos, who cared if you could golf with the grain (noise) in the photo. Great tutorial video. I am glad that Sony is finally offering in camera focus stacking. I wonder if focus stacking could be combined with pixel shift. I wish that my A1 had in camera focus stacking. So many great A7R V features, focus stacking, pixel shift, insect AF - I guess I will have to get this camera soon.

Excellent tutorial. This function is in the a6700 also and I'm eager to try it out. This explained it perfectly - thanks!

Thank you Albert, You are a great instructor, easy to understand for a rookie.

Cool to find your channel Albert. This is good stuff. Loving the Dutch accent.

Great job on the video Albert mate; looking forward to more videos from you overtime buddy

Dank je Albert voor de duidelijke bruikbare uitleg 👌, ga met deze informatie aan de slag

Great video. Thank you.

Thank you for this video 🙏. I was out shooting with my new A7R5 yesterday to test the photo stacking, but was not able to get it to work. The "infinity" distance was all blurry. After watching your video, I changed the number of pictures from 4 to 50 and it worked like a dream 😊.

Amazing 👏 work.

Perfect! Thanks so much for this video.

Great Video brotha! I learned a lot and now I know what Focus Bracketing is! Thank you!

Thanks for the review! Love your work!

Thank you so much for great tutorial.

Hi, Albert! (Linda Henderson of Iceland trip 2/2024 with Gary and Don). I just purchased my a7R5 this weekend and am spending time fixing all of my camera settings and preferences! Thanks for this video and I look forward to trying out the in-camera focus-stacking. Be well.

Albert nice video thnks

Very nice!!!! Of course Olympus has done it for years and even combine the images in camera for you, if you'd like. But glad Sony is doing it now. Canon and Nikon, time to learn it too!

amazing! thank you so much!

You're officially my favourite Dutch photographer 😎

@AlbertDrosPhotography, it's nice Sony finally implemented the focus shift mode. It is also nice now you can shoot more than 30 sec in the bulb timer. 2 of the most handy features for landscape/nightscape photography that Sony missing in years. HOWEVER, why Sony doesn't let you shoot focus shift more than 30 sec? When you shoot landscape or astro landscape at night. You can't focus your subject unless you shine lights onto it. But in most cases, you don't want to do that at night for many reasons. I thought the focus shift shooting could solve this problem brilliantly in the dark environment. All you needed to do is to focus the ground right in front of you and let the camera taking care of the rest without actually shine the lights to focus on the main subject that is far away from you. Unfortunately it's not the case. Because Sony won't allow me to shoot more than 30 sec in the dark with focus shift mode. And we all know 30sec is not good enough to get a noise free or low noise photo when you shoot nightscape. What a shame. I believe Nikon and Canon already had this feature working in the dark environment flawlessly. I hope Sony will add this in their future firmware updates.

Great video. Can’t wait to one day get a a7r5

It is incredible that this system is handled better by the Mynoltas. They already invented this since the 2016 versions. If you are going to buy this camera for this section, I suggest that you go for the Mynolta that costs 4 times less.

Thanks Albert 💐 Sony A7R5 📷

I had to look up for your website (does not show in your KZfaq bios). Your pics are amazing. Hopefully I can attend one of your workshops in the future.

Cheers, very helpful

Thanks for the info! I had a Canon that did this in-camera, but switched to Sony last year and really missed it. It seems that even my old Sony A6600 has this feature and I didnt know it!

Photoshop works okay if the foreground is smooth and not too busy, if you have leaves, bushes or anything with complex depth, it's better to use dedicated focus stack software such as zerene.

Nice feature, unfortunately it's not built in A7IV. With my old Fuji X-T2 I shot landscapes with focus stacking even handheld and result is very good.

Great Video! Thanks for the explanation. I only hope there is new firmware upgrade for A7 iv...

Ah! After almost 2 years....much thanks Albert for the tutorial. Please post more frequently, if possible. Love your photography and works much.

Thank you for the help! Couldn't find the answer to this question within Sony Imaging Edge or Adobe Photoshop's help manuals. Everyone seems to suck at search tools, but Google. lol

Great video Albert, finally a KZfaq video for landscape photographers on the A7RV. Is there raw support in lightroom yet? Also, can you use an a74 L-bracket with the a7rV? Would love to see a demo of pixel shift now that it's more usable. Thanks bro!

Lekker bezig! Smaakt naar meer en dat gaat er ook komen zo te horen 😬

great video thanks. I am about to shoot the Oregon Coast travelling from Canada in our RV

Thank you!

Albert I love that you're wearing the jacket from November's Iceland Photo Camp! I've gotten my hands on a Sony A7RV and am looking forward to exploring all these new features - and your videos! What about using Luminar NEO to process the focus stack images?

Sony please add focus bracketing to the A7IV!

Hello Albert, First of all, I love your pictures! Then regarding to this feature you have in the A7RIV, do you know if Sony has implemented this in the Sony A7iv as well ?

Good to see this is now possible in the new A7R5. What about the A7R4? How did you do this before A7R5 came out? Just manually switching focus points? Hope this will also come in new firware for A7R4.

thats sickk

Thanks!

Great video can you do focus stacking with long exposure like to blur out waterfalls and keep everything in focus

👍 great 👍

THANK YOU

Thanks so much for this video. Do you know if this can be done in Photoshop Elements?

Very good job as always, I'm thinking of investing in this camera and in a sigma 105 mm dg dn art macro lens, that's why the focus stacking option is really welcome in my opinion. What do you think of this combo for the macro? I think that with high definition it is possible to crop without too much loss of quality or by using the super 35mm mode it is possible to be even closer on certain subjects. Thanks ;)

Thank you for the tutorial! You made it seem so much easier than how I imagined this process to work! I'll have to give it a try!

Love this video, thank you! However infinity is unreachable sir.😊

Great video, very well explained, how do you open RAW files from the A7R5 in Lightroom?

Excellent tutorial. Thanks. Do you have any concerns about diffraction when using f11 or f14?

Can you add a new folder for normal bracketed shot sequences too? They should have the option for both.

Thanks for the video, I just tested it out and my Sony a7rV recorded the images at two different resolutions. I've done a search but haven't found an explanation for why. Have you experienced this? Could it be my cards are too slow? Thnaks David

Great video mate 👍 Slightly off topic question... Do you turn the IBIS and/or lens stabilisation when using troop and focus stacking, especially for long exposures? Thank you!

Great job as usual .. watched this video for the 3rd time your workflow is fantastic .. I would like to know if you have done some focus bracketing with telephoto lenses and with cameras that don’t have this feature .. like A7R IV .. in general how big is The difference between wide-angle lens is and telephoto lenses? How many images should I take at 400mm with 100-400 for example at 5.6 .. it’s pretty shallow DOF at that range and aperture ? Or should I use PhotoPills and calculate DOF and then decide .. I would like to hear your advice :) thanks

Thank you so much for this video! Will this still work ok if you edit the raw images before bringing them into photoshop. I prefer to make most of my adjustments to the RAW images first. As long as you don't crop or change lens compensations etc should it work ok?

I just picked up a6700 and it has this feature. Hope the a1 FW updates includes this. Can you tell me if this shoots these RAW or just JPG?

If you are just interested in 4K video, I would go with the a7S III. With 12.9 MP, it is 4K without all that downraezng that would be required with the a7R V and its 61MP sensor. A frame of 4K uses 8MP. The a7R V has 61MP. You don't need that for any video. The a7R V camera is more a hybrid. It is a photo camera that does video. The a7 S III is a video camera that does photos.

So that’s basically a game changer for macro / landscape photographers?? Sweet one more reason to get the rv

Great video - thanks for the video, but how did you open the RAW files in LR Classic ? It seems that the A7Rv RAW isn’t supported yet ? What magic did you do ?

The focus stacking does not always focus to infinity. Please pass this to Sony engineers. Digilloyd said Sony focus Stacking is broken. Mark Galer replied this to my comment about failure to focus to infinity: " I think this feature can best be described as ‘work in progress’"

Albert, Thank you for great video. Tell me please, what kind of camera strap do you use? Your camera strap doesn't look like the strap that came with Sony A7RV.

Hey there! I am looking for some insight or advice on a lens to use with sony that does well with macro and landscapes! What should I consider looking for a lens that works really well with both of these types of photography. Do you have any videos about this?

Great video Albert. One question, does the Focus Mode matter? I mean should you change the Focus Mode setting to AF-C whenever you use Focus Bracketing?

I shoot jewelry with an A7IV, and Laowa 90mm macro, manual lens, aperture at F11, and flash. I take between 10 - 20 shots, to get all parts of the metal ring, & gems in focus by moving the focus point, punching in with the magnifier button on the camera, and manually adjusting the focus on the lens. Will this new function of the A7RV be able to automate this for me using my manual lens, or will i need the Sony 90mm autofocus macro lens?

Thanks gor this useful explanation. Do we still get highest quality of uncompressed RAW out of this Focus Stacking mode?

I want this feature so bad. Ugh, anyway, if they could only add live exposure compositions to do light painting shots, I would be completely sold on a7r5

Thanks for sharing! Can focus stacking be used in combination with exposure bracketing?

Great video, Is this the only Sony Camera with this feature? Also does it have Multiple exposure mode like Canon?

Is the a7rv good for videos? Can you please do a testing being videographer (Full frame vs Super 35)?

Thanks Albert for the useful information - I think it’s time to upgrade from my A7R3 😀

Thank you very much, great video! I love my sony A1 and the lens selection but frankly their lack of substantial/meaningful firmware updates is embarrassing! Even for their "Flagship camera". Focus breathing compensation came out with A7SIII (OCT 2020)and still not available for the A1!!!! So I don't see this function making its way to other models. Also $1200 CF express type A card is disgusting!!!!!

Albert, Very nice Video. Thank you for the instructions. I just got my Sony A7R v yesterday. My questions are How did you get ARW files in Lightroom? Did you use Exiftools to covert to A7Riv files or something? I think I saw a L-bracket on your camera, where did you get that? Thank you in advance. Kirit Vora

Hoi Albert Vraag werkt de focus bracketing ook met een manuele macrolens?

Mooie video, duidelijk uitgelegd. Meteen uitgeprobeerd met mijn Sigma macro 105 lens, helaas blijft alleen het ingestelde focus punt scherp en gebeurt er verder niets Werkt het alleen met Sony lensen.dat zou wel heel erg jammer zijn

Would love to know these locations your shooting at

Hello Albert What would be your 1 lens choice if you had to shoot wildlife bronze art and taxidermy art at a very high level. I will be buying the Sony 7rv. But I am honestly not sure what lens or 2 would be the very best lens for the project? 5:30

hi is there a good tutaural out there for sony using the RMT-P1BT to photo stack using other Sony Cameras eg A9.

nice, why you dont use the electronic shutter on that?

Thanks for the video, I was originally wondering if it worked with autofocus which you answered. One question, when using focus bracketing is there a way to also shoot with exposure bracketing?

nice video. But how do i avoid focus breathing? Which camera/lens pair can i use to avoid this issue?

Hey, can You please check there is possibility to make focus stacking with silent shutter mode (electronic shutter) - and make it more faster ? i want to use this option for macro photography. Olympus has this option, but i want to use FF body. Thanks in advance for reply

Hi DAlbert, I'm struggling to connect A7RV to the computer for shooting products. I can't connect to image edge, smartshooter4, or zoom. I'm using the same settings as I did fir the A7rIV. Any help is appreciated.

I’m wondering if Sony brings out a firmware update for the A7r4 for this feature

Can you use the Focus Stacking feature using APSC mode?

how is the low light and high iso performance on the a7r5 ?

Could you clarify things please, you said regarding focus stacking that the A7RV starts stacking from the nearest select af point and then just keeps going until infinity is reached, for macro work at 1 to 1 magnification wouldn't this then mean a huge amount of wasted frames as at 1/1 infinity is an extremely long way away. Please let me know as I've been thinking about switching to a Fuji XT-4/5 whereby you simply select the nearest and furthest distances for front to back sharpness of your subject and the camera then automates the entire process and terminates the bracket when the furthest selected point is reached. Very Nice

Is this also available in sony a1?

is there a restriction on which lens you use?

Hello Albert, a question. I have the SONY A7RV and the Sony 24-70 GM II lens. What mm size CPL filter I should buy? Thanks.

A lot of you are asking how I open the RAW files, so I made a short article about it: www.albertdros.com/post/how-to-open-your-a7rv-raw-files Edit: Now works with LR :)

is it better to take your photos in raw or jpeg for stacking? I'm kind of lazy to edit pics so i normally just save in jpeg and do light editing.

Is there any way the focus stacking feature can be given to A7IV via firmware update?

Albert, the 7RV isn't being released here in the U.S. for another week. After seeing your video I might put off my 7IV purchase ! Boring question, Many people have expressed what a hassle these huge 61MP files are. Larger memory cards, slower file loading into your computer etc. I'm coming from 42MP. camera which seemed crazy big enough. Can you comment on your experience with these concerns. Thanks

I have a new sony A7R5 body. Im a new sony A7 user. Im using a Sigma MC-11 to adapt canon aps-c lens. Im trying to perform focus stacking and getting the following error message, "invalid with this lens" error. The "step width" and the "number of shots" are also grayed out. I also get the error message "this function is currently disabled". I also used a canon prime lens and still get the same error message " invalid with this lens". I have also turned on/off aps-c mode and still get an error message. Or you can only use sony native lens in order to use this feature. Thanks in advance for taking the time to respond.