Focus Stacking

The little Olympus Tough TG-7 has an internal program to do a macro focus stack. It works. Captured with TG-7, 2025-07-07 10:03:52, 5.4mm, 1/250sec, f/3.2, ISO-100.

The little Olympus Tough TG-7 gave me another surprise a few days ago. I knew about its capability to stack focus frames in-camera for macro photography. What I did not know is that it does it fairly well and takes only a moment.

The Girl and I were on our normal summer trail and I had the TG-7 in my hip pocket. I noticed the sun on the nut of the gate lock that keeps four-wheel traffic from the fire road.

“That might make an interesting image…”

I paused a minute, while The Girl snuffled about, and set the camera to macro focus-stacking. When I pressed the shutter release, I heard the camera take several frames in quick succession. It then flashed an image for a few seconds and returned to ready mode.

The frame is pretty darned good. I am surprised.

I wonder what other things this little camera does this well.

Life is good.