Haze & Halos
Why defocused foreground structures contaminate sharp regions—and why stacking software cannot reconstruct detail that was never recorded cleanly.
Read note →Technical notes
Common Problems in Focus Stacking
Practical articles developed from repeated high-magnification capture, failure analysis and workflow refinement. Each note explains an optical or mechanical limitation encountered in real specimen work, why it occurs, and how it is mitigated in practice.
Subject & Camera Movement
How small physical shifts become large sensor-plane displacements and produce doubling, ghosting and unresolved transitions.
Read note →Magnification Breathing
Understanding apparent scale changes across a stack and the demands they place on alignment and composite integrity.
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