It is a great way for you to get the best prices on all your gear and help me at the same time. This is a great lens at a great price, and it’s one that you will treasure for years to come, so click on the link, look at the specs and the reviews and, while you are there, pick up those things that have been sitting in your shopping basket since last Christmas. But did you know that if you use this same button to enter Amazon but don’t buy this lens, and instead buy almost anything else, from televisions to tortoise shell spectacles, iron-on temporary tattoos (not recommended) to tea tree toothpaste, we still may earn a small commission, paid by Amazon, not by you. Clicking the buy button will take you to this product in the Amazon store, and if you buy this lens I may make a small fee for referring you to Amazon. It is the Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC G2 and I use it for everything including portraits, sports, wildlife, and as a reliable 200mm relay lens for use with my Nikon and Mitutoyo microscope objectives. Below is a link, an Amazon Affiliate link, to one of my favorite lenses. One of the practical ways in which you can support my work and keep fresh content flowing is by making a slight change in the way you do your online shopping. But is this a fair standard by which either of these programs should be judged?
HELICON FOCUS REVIEWS SOFTWARE
I firmly believe that the only reliable yardstick by which we can measure the performance of a focus stacking software tool, is the quality of the final image. Lightning fast stacking is a great way to start, but for virtually every high magnification stack, unless you also have a top notch retouching functionality, and everything that supports retouching, like slabbing and selective stacking, the tool is not going to get the job finished. And I think that is a serious problem for Helicon. Because I could have all the experience in the world and it is not going to make up for the fact that there are some things this otherwise great program just cannot do. But my lack of experience with Helicon’s retouching is only part of the story. I feel like I know both of these programs very well indeed, though I have to admit I have plenty of work to do in Helicon’s retouching environment. Well that was day one, and I have taken a lot of photographs since then. In fact, I was so surprised on the first shooting day of this project, that when I saw the speed with which Helicon ripped through stacks and saw the quality of the initial few batches of simple stacks, I immediately called my friend Mike, another Zerene guy but several time zones to my left, and yelled down the line, “Mike, Just saw the first few outputs from this Helicon stacking software and it is nothing like what I was expecting.” He responded by muttering something that might have been a friendly “cheerio”, but which sounded more like an unambiguous death threat, before hanging up on me, as he does every time I call at 3AM. This is the kind of healthy competition that keeps everyone on their toes. That is good for us and it is good for Zerene. Helicon has come a long way since I first tried it out.
So, I was surprised but excited to see that there was some serious competition, after all. That was quite some time ago and there weren’t that many people that I knew using anything but Zerene. That was, after all, why I chose Zerene Stacker as my stacking software when it was time for me to get serious about my work. I came into it expecting to find Zerene a better product in every way. This has been a long but enjoyable process.
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