04-06-2016, 08:46 AM
Of course there is a difference in how to do focus stacking! With elder lenses you need to move the camera with lens. With AF lenses you use Helicon remote and after doing the stack shots, you put them into Helicon focus to layer them.
With Non-AF lenses one is forced to buy additional hardware - that makes the advantage of "cheap" vintage lens pretty much eaten up.
More than that: With manual macro lens you also need an extra power supply for the stepper, for the remote control it comes to being equal because Helicon isn't part of a camera - but they could make an app for Sony and their in-camera-apps. The Sony menus and firmware already are so huge, so it would not matter to put in another 100MB or so
With Non-AF lenses one is forced to buy additional hardware - that makes the advantage of "cheap" vintage lens pretty much eaten up.
More than that: With manual macro lens you also need an extra power supply for the stepper, for the remote control it comes to being equal because Helicon isn't part of a camera - but they could make an app for Sony and their in-camera-apps. The Sony menus and firmware already are so huge, so it would not matter to put in another 100MB or so