I once had a projection project in Geneva. (Schweizer filmpreis 2013). One of the light engineers said to me while we where talking about the resolution. If the content reaches the audience the resolution is not important. It left me thinking for a while. On the other hand, I honestly enjoy every experiment that I can follow along. And your experiments are very interesting. And it’s a lot of work to. So thank you 🙏

Again, a crystal clear, magnificent video. I’m going to try with my Q2. Thank you!

You don't need to select all the layers before flattening. Flatten Image works the same regardless of layer selected.

Very interesting! As a landscape and product photographer, using a Nikon Z7, I do focus stacking for product photography, which involves using the camera on a tripod, ISO 64 and lens at around f/8, shutter speed is the flash sync speed (1/250), and then taking several dozen images of the still subject, each with the focus point at different areas of the subject. I then do a focus merge in Affinity Photo, which I believe computes the blending automatically, and final edits in Photoshop. The resulting image varies in size (depending on the quantity of information in the subject), but could be around 140 to 180MB, with the difference being that my image is equally pin-sharp throughout, since there is not just one, but many, actual points of focus! (As your readers know, a photograph is absolute sharpest at its point of focus.) I look forward to trying your technique on a landscape! Thank you.

wow This is cool ... can't wait to try it with my M10P Thanks for sharing

Not clear to me that it's an improvement in resolution so much as a reduction in noise that otherwise masks resolution that you already have. Should work just as well for a stationary camera.

I’ve looking for a method to do this for so long. Thanks!

Great informative video! Thank you for sharing your information!

Amazing! Thank you!

Outstanding!

Amazing, extremely interesting.

Magnificent

Lovely video!! Can I have a qustion of exposure simulation? When I take a photo in the middle of night at the beach, there were no light, My M10M live view could not show me anything...just dark. Of course, I turned on exposure simulation... Is M10M different with M10R?

Great method with any kind of digital camera able to do high speed bursts if there are none or barely any moving elements in the composition. Main culprit in this example is less clearly defined could structure pattern which is more like in a long exposure shot, too. This might or might not be desirable.

Thanks a lot for sharing.

Your the leica Oracle and also brilliant content as usual.

Very well explained. One question though... does this mean my prints can be 4 times larger and still be as sharp?

Could you do this with the phase one ?

Interesting workaround if you absolutely need much more resolution for a specific image. Perhaps best used for product photography, ideally using controlled (flash) lighting. F.i., if you know you need to produce a huge print but don't have the best camera to do that. Still, I'd rather use a high resolution camera from the start. But: your workaround does work: good video.

Aka dithering.... always used in astrophotography.... can be used for diminish noise, to improve color acurracy or to improve linear resolution and dynamic range....these can be done by changing the image stacking settings...... means...how you apply intelligence to the process.

I do exactly the same but with simple panorama handhold.

Can this be done without photoshop? I won’t install anything by Adobe.

just a thought... what if we just set the opacity of each layer to 5% equally? would it make a more balance contribution of all the pictures taken?

Thank you for this great idea and explanation 👍🏻, I have a question please, what about if we make a 20 copy of a photo and stack them with the same method?

In theory you can do super resolution with any camera even with a film camera and a little time on your hands. 😀 But it’s nice to see you getting the best out of the camera. I sometimes do the other thing around. I take the shittiest camera I can get (phone from 2001 or mavica from 1997 and I try to get low tec good images. On the other hand on can presume to have made the best super resolution image out of a mavica. 😅 it takes floppy disc as storage. 😊

In this concept, if you don’t expand the resolution, and adding many more frames, how to make it behaves like the PhaseOne in body long exposure smooth simulation? Which replaces ND filter with cleaner result

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Interesting would be the comparison to software algorithms like Topaz Gigapixel or Adobe superresolution in the Camera Raw module that uses AI. Would the resolution better with the multishot method or with the AI methods. The other method would be to use a longer focal length and stitch 4 pictures together that have the same coverage as the original lens. However, that is more difficult on the M Series than on the S series. But if you start with a 24mm lens and then stitch the 50mm lens pictures even that should work.

Worth comparing with Topaz Labs Gigapixel AI IMO.

1. This is useful for absolutely NOT moving object otherwise useless. Look at the small boat at the bottom (1st one) with the yellow grey dek , in the multishot it looks terrible and since it is so big, light coloured, it is more noticeable than the sharpness in the back (houses etc.) 2. IMO the noise on the single shot is quite heavy for an ISO 800 shot with a Summicron. But I guess the 1/250 was needed for the multishot cause at 1/125 th at 400 ISO the multishot would even worse. Nice technique for still objects and rather GOOD light to use high shutter speeds.

The Argus lens works with this camera

why 20 shots? why not 10? or 50?

If the lens is up to it...

Concerning ghosting, would the use of AF-Phase Detection rather than AF-Contrast detection reduce the chance of ghosting in the final blended image. I’m not sure Leica has AF -phase detection capability. Great video by the way!

Why stagger the opacity?

LR and others do this.

From a scientific critical thinker, no multi shot can produce an image with more resolution then the original capability. It is what it is no mater how many times you take the shot.