Focus Bracketing 2-10 setting image examples

iamdlewis · 2025-03-05T00:59:26+0000

So after updating my A1 and getting the feature of Focus Bracketing I had one big question and nobody seemed to have actually answered it so I set out to. My question is what do the settings actually mean? What is narrow and what is wide? Well here are the answers to that with 2 through 10 with each being 100 images. You may ask why I started with 2 and not 1, well I did 1 in RAW and I don't feel like going through the steps to convert and stack.
These are all using the 90mm Macro at F2.8
Setting 2:

ILCE-1
FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
90.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/10 sec
ISO 100

Setting 3

ILCE-1
FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
90.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/10 sec
ISO 100

Setting 4

ILCE-1
FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
90.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/10 sec
ISO 100

Setting 5

ILCE-1
FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
90.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/10 sec
ISO 100

Setting 6

ILCE-1
FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
90.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/10 sec
ISO 100

Setting 7

ILCE-1
FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
90.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/10 sec
ISO 100

Setting 8

ILCE-1
FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
90.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/10 sec
ISO 100

Setting 9

ILCE-1
FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
90.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/10 sec
ISO 100

Setting 10

ILCE-1
FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
90.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/10 sec
ISO 100

iamdlewis · 2025-03-05T01:36:37+0000

If using a 1x Macro lens I don't see that point in using anything less than a 3 but also you probably need to go with 400-500 images if you want to hit the infinity limit.

dragonsdreams · 2025-03-05T14:03:20+0000

I would be interested in other people's views and settings especially those working on tiny insects and slime moulds. There didn't seem to be much out there on the web for the new Sony focus bracketing on macro subjects.

iamdlewis · 2025-03-05T15:56:46+0000

dragonsdreams said:
I would be interested in other people's views and settings especially those working on tiny insects and slime moulds. There didn't seem to be much out there on the web for the new Sony focus bracketing on macro subjects.

That is why I did this. I was trying to photograph some flowers and I was barely getting any depth when I was doing like 50 images, which is more than what a lot of youtubers say they use. There is no Sony documentation about what the "narrow" to "wide" settings mean. I am most likely going to do a few more of these tests with possibly some subject matter (probably nothing exciting) in them.