outright worthless
The 1-star review previously submitted here is true. The app is trash.
I needed an app offering some "focus stacking/bracketing" functionality and struggled to find any but this one.
This app is endeed easy to use (just select three focus points, edit adjustments, and then render the final picture).
However, its "focusing" function is outright worthless. Everything is still blurry with artifitially sharpened edges (that's how the stacking, I beleive, is done by the app).
...Requesting a refund.
I needed an app offering some "focus stacking/bracketing" functionality and struggled to find any but this one.
This app is endeed easy to use (just select three focus points, edit adjustments, and then render the final picture).
However, its "focusing" function is outright worthless. Everything is still blurry with artifitially sharpened edges (that's how the stacking, I beleive, is done by the app).
...Requesting a refund.
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Blurry fraud app
Don’t waste your money. Incredibly blurry. It literally looks like they put each photo over each other. Stupid fraud app.
Miniature pics
I’m giving this a 5 star because it did what I wanted with almost no effort. I’m taking photos of Infinity (Corvus Belli) models in a 4” x 4” space, and was not able to get multiple rows in focus. This app invoices picking three points and click. Done. The built in lighting and other settings are harder to use, but after the photo is merged, just use any other app to crop and clean up color and it’s great.
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Very easy to use app for capturing detail from images through a microscope.
At first, I wasn’t pleased with this app. I had purchased it to try to stack photos of images viewed at 1000x through a microscope. I am using these photos in scientific research and needed a fast/simple way to get more depth of field and an increased appreciation of the 3D structure of the objects I was viewing. The reason I wasn’t initially pleased is that I was trying to use the app to stack three separate images that I had taken while manually adjusting the focus on the microscope and holding the phone in my hand when I took each photo. The app is actually terrible at stacking those images (but so is much higher-end software used on desktop computers). However- once I bought a cheap adapter used to mount the phone to the eyepiece if the microscope, and once I started capturing images using the built-in “auto capture” feature where the software directs the camera to take three images at slightly different focal lengths- I started getting exactly what I needed from the app. I now use it for almost every image I take through the microscope, and I am able to get soooooo much more information from those images about the 3D structure of the organism I study in my research. I’ve found that the “fine detail”!setting doesn’t work at all (is haven given 4 1/2 stars because of that), but even with the more rough version of the stacked image, I’m getting so much more information than I was before I started stacking... that I’m not worried about the high-resolution processing not seeming to work for me. I’ve never tried using the app for anything other than microscopy work, so I can’t comment on its usefulness for other macro photography etc.... also, I’ve found it is really the most useful when I am looking at images at very high magnifications (400-1000x). The app is capable of processing the stacked image in just a few seconds... so it is much faster than a computer-based software program in which the photos must first be uploaded etc... Given the very limited options for iPhone-based stacking apps... this one has been a Godsend for my work and would be a huge help to anyone taking photographs through a microscope. (Just make sure the camera is mounted to the scope so there is zero change in position during capture of the three images).
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meh
Unable to manually align photos and the auto align function does not work very well for the photos I work with. Definitely needs more configurability. Not even worth 3$ at this point
Bad output
Doesn’t come out looking like a professional mage, really comes out looking altered.
Blah
Tried focus stacking snowflakes. The output picture is garbage and low quality. Don’t bother.
Good idea but useless app
Stacks three photos however it wants. Needs configurability.
Crashes too often
Worked once for 1 photo, then crashes every time I use it. Not worth spending money on it if it doesn’t work.
Does nothing on my iPhone 6s Plus
Purchased thinking I could use it for photos where I am forcing a narrow depth of field. That is my bad. I did not read it all the way. However, after attempting to use the app for what it is made, it does not do that even. It kind of works for very narrow depth of field, but attempting to take a picture with a bottle 4 inches from my camera and my dog 7 feet from my camera did not keep them both in focus.
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Works well.
In spite of what a previous reviewer wrote I found this app worked quite well. I had 3 hand held HDR shots, each at slightly different focus distances, and I was worried there might be problems. It not only aligned the 3 shots well but selected the in-focus regions of each and put together one picture from the three that had extended depth of field. Exactly what I wanted. The processing took a minute or so. Not bad at all.
I was disappointed that the output resolution is only 1536x2048 px. I realize the processing would be slower with full device resolution but I think the wait would be worthwhile. That and a little cleaning up of the interface would give it the full 5 stars.
I was disappointed that the output resolution is only 1536x2048 px. I realize the processing would be slower with full device resolution but I think the wait would be worthwhile. That and a little cleaning up of the interface would give it the full 5 stars.
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Needs work
I didn't realize you could only use a maximum of three pictures,The minimum amount of exposures I typically use for focus stacking is six (with some going up to 30) so there's room for improvement there. The preview screen is not large enough or Hi-Rez enough for me to really see with the pictures going to look like. The app overall is clunky very watered-down and cheap feeling. It is however One of only two image decking apps available on the iPhone from what I can tell. The other one is like eight dollars and I didn't want to risk it, Because I figured they couldn't be any good. I was right.
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Defocus camera
Anyone who would buy this prefers their pictures to be sharp. However, what you get is a picture that is uniformly in soft focus even in HQ and all image effects turned off. JPEG compression artifacts are apparent. In sum, this app softens the entire image, not what one expects from a focus stacking app.
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Great app
I have used this on landscape shots, works great.
I have about thirty photo apps and I have narrowed all of them down to about five that I actually use. This will be in my quiver.
I have about thirty photo apps and I have narrowed all of them down to about five that I actually use. This will be in my quiver.
Excelente app
Would like to have the zoom for smaller insects. Would be nice pictures are taken faster since insects move.
But an excellent app.
But an excellent app.
Photo Stacking
If your looking for an app to photo stack this is not the one. I have tried many different techniques and all results were unusable. Very poor quality. The alignment is very very poor. Stick to photoshop for stacking. And it crashes often!
Garbage
Utter, utter rubbish. Would have been better off throwing my cash down the street.
crap!!
d,nt buy this garbage app ever i waste of 3$ deleted this app after 20 minutes
Bad bad bad
This is rubbish, indeed I'm not sure it's as good as rubbish, as some rubbish is recyclable.
Do not waist your money.
It will not put into focus a single photo.
It will give you a mix of three, what effing good is that.
Almost feels i'v been conned.
Do not waist your money.
It will not put into focus a single photo.
It will give you a mix of three, what effing good is that.
Almost feels i'v been conned.
