Focus Bracketing Macro with the Canon R6 Markii
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- čas přidán 16. 12. 2022
- I am absolutely loving the new Canon R6 Markii. This is not a review video. But we will try to do one after I've used the camera a bit more.
In this video we will look specifically at the Focus Bracketing feature. It is not found in the EOS R, and I have wanted to have it in my arsenal of photography tools. It takes a little practice to get it where you want it, as is explained in this video. But once you're there, it is SO easy to use, both for taking and editing images.
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Just beautiful
beautiful pictures!
I have just upgraded to the r6 mark ii, and have been trying out macro photography without success. Your video tutorial really opens a lot of possibilities for macro. Thanks a bunch!
Good luck!
Fantastic presentation on the Focus Stacking of the Canon R6ii. Loved the introduction Tim. Well done!
Thank you!
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Thanks Tim. Very helpful and well put together video. I got a near perfect practice result the first time in camera following your detailed instructions. Much appreciated. This is a great feature. I'm sure I'll be using it a lot more.
Thanks!
Thank you. A very helpful video. I noticed this setting on my R6 mark ii the other week and had a little play. Now i understand it a lot more.
That’s great to hear! Thank you for watching!
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just wow!
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Going to try this thanks
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Just replaced my 50D with the R6 Mark II and LOVE macro photography! I didn’t know this was a thing tbh… so cool it does it in camera for you. Will definitely be utilizing in the future, thanks for the video!
Thank you for watching! You’re gonna love that camera!!
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Holy cow, this will save me so much time and effort, great video, thank you
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
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Thanks for sharing the, awesome photos, I use the same function with my R7, take care 👍👌
Thank you!
I too am moving from an R to the R6 mkii so am very interested in your journey, especially since I'm about an hour North of you and Phil. Great intro shots. Keep them coming.
I’m really liking it! So much more to try out!!
This is a masterpiece, Tim! I have yet to do focus bracketing the right way, on a tripod. Well, unless you count that time I killed my R7 while it was compiling that image at jigger creek falls. It's amazing that I've been able to get it to work sometimes handheld while photographing a living insect. Great work all the way around. The screen recording mixed in was a great touch!
Thanks, Phil! Can’t wait to try it out at a waterfall.
Thank you! This is the instruction I missed in the manual. There are so many videos in my native language, but they all just list the features. Why doesn't Canon provide such good instructional videos?
good questions, but Tim is an excellent teacher!
Thanks for the video but there doesn't appear to be an end point. What I mean is you focused at the nearest point, but the furthest point is plain guess work. I would have thought that Canon would have let us choose both ends of our focus & then we just fill in the rest. Thanks once again though.
Absolutley amazing and very informative video !! great regards from Romania !! i do the same but my camera doesn't put the image togehther , is there a setting more to make ,?
Until I got the Canon R6 M2, I did all my focus stacking in Photoshop. Not every camera does it in body, but it was one of the reasons I got the R6 in the first place. :)
Hi, nice video. When you switch on manual focus and the distance scale appears do you now how you can get the ratios to appear in green like on the older EF lenses eg 1:3, 1:4 etc? It allows you to repeat photos at the same distance. As it stands the digital scale is too small between x0.3 and infinity? Thanks
I’m not sure I understand the question. So, I’m going to say no. :)
The distance shown is from the camera sensor.
Hi Tim, thank You for this material, I a macro entusiastic and Im Thinking about change to R6M2, I have a question, can I export file in one image in RAW, not only JPG (?)
Unfortunately no. You can export all the individual files and then blend them in Photoshop, however. I have done that when I wanted more editing options.
Very interesting video, do you know if this focus bracketing feature will work with a strobe as well?
Unfortunately, I don’t. I don’t use strobes. But if you try it out, please let me know!
No it does not. Look to Olympus for that.
Great Video, i need a help in the formela how to know how many pics to take? in what F-stop?
I shot on a tripod at f8 I think. As to how many to take, it was all trial and error for me. Sorry I’m not much help. :)
Depending on your f-stop value and the number of images and the focus increment, the camera will automatically set how many pictures it will need. If it needs less than say the 20 set in number of shots, it will take less. Otherwise it will take as many and stop at 20. You will hear this as the camera takes the shots. If you set to say 20, you will hear if the camera takes 20 shots or less. Then you know.
That one of the reasons I also bought the great camera Can you do this with HD FOR LANDSCAPE ? regards ChrisB
Yes. It actually does a much easier job with fewer images for landscape.
Can I do the focus bracketing but not have the camera merge the images?
I don’t believe that is an option. However, the camera does keep all the original RAW files, so doing a manual merge is still possible.
Sorry if you mentioned this is the video and I missed it: What lens are you using here? Thank you! Great video, you inspired me to experiment with macro and the R6m2.
I was using the RF 100mm Macro. And thank you for those kind words!
@@TimChilders That's what I thought. I will be picking up a used EF100 L and see how it goes adapted to the R6m2. Thanks for the tips.
@@tangled6931 That is also a fantastic lens!
can this not work on the r6? do i need to do it in photoshop?
I’m afraid I’m not sure about the R6 as I don’t have one. I’m sorry I’m not able to answer your question.
@@TimChilders thanjs for getting back .
Ahoj, máš nějaké řešení jak vyřešit ty “duchy”, třeba okolo toho obrazu? Proč se tak děje? Děkuji
I don’t. I’m not at all a photo editor. Could be halos, which can be eliminated in Photoshop.
If you set it to 999, it will only take however many photos are required, not 999 photos.
I learned too late. :). Thank you!
how about with flash?
I have used a flash in the woods, but I didn’t use one here.
Why not use F11 instead of stacking?
When shooting macro, even f11 won’t get you fully focused simply because the subject is too close. But it might be close enough.
How do you get the stack to blend in body?
That is a function of the focus bracket setting in camera. It does it automatically and creates a JPG file as the result.
@@TimChilders Thanks!
@@TimChilders can you tel specifiic what setting ? thank you !
@@actylise once you establish the focus bracketing in settings, you can use whatever aperture and shutter speed you want. I think I was shooting in f8, but I have also shot as wide as f2.8. The wider your aperture, the more images you will need because the plane of focus is so much narrower.
The Setting Depth Composite, if enabled, will stack the shots in camera, as well as keep the jpeg and/or raw images. If disabled, the camera will only capture the images, jpeg and/or raw and then you do the blending or stacking in Photoshotp or other software.