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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8134446, member: 19463&quot;]I hear that a lot.&nbsp; Regarding focus stacking:&nbsp; Most of my images beyond 1:1 use focus stacking.&nbsp; Certainly all the ones that show tilted coins. My latest playing around has been using a microscope and stacks up to 30 images but each is different according to what I see.&nbsp; I have heard nothing bad about the Laowa but do not plan to buy one since I already have a decent 100mm Canon macro which can be used on extension tubes and which has autofocus so it allows use of the focus bracketing feature of my Canon RP mirrorless camera. I did see in the review that the Laowa has a rather coarse focus adjustment which would make it harder to use for focus stacking.&nbsp; My best focus stacked images have used older lenses I have accumulated in the last 55 years or so.&nbsp; Being one to carry things to excess, I offer a roughly 90 year old Leitz &#039;3&#039; microscope lens on the RP stacked from 25 input images with an added scale showing white lines 1mm apart.&nbsp; This much magnification is just too much but had to be tried.&nbsp; The subject is the tail of an Athenian obol owl.&nbsp; I need more input images to do it right but am looking for a better subject coin before I try again. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1417239[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This pair used a much lower power Bausch and Lomb objective only about 60 years old stacked from 30 images comparing two die matched denarii of Septimius Severus.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1417243[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This Gordian III and Tranquillina was done using the reversed 16-35 Canon staked from about 20 images.&nbsp; The arrow was added to point out the die centration layout dot separate from the flan centration pit that needs no arrow to be found.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1417246[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Focus stacking is fun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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