[JJ_SO]

I came home with 4 stacks: 10, 20, 30, 40* pictures each. That's the thing with unfinished (imo) software-options: A finished option would ask me "tap closest distance" ok "tap farest distance" - ok, "with aperture f/2.5 you need 28 shots. Push shutter release to start."

• No messing around with steps between 1 - 10, 
  
• freedom to close aperture and need less shots, 
  
• also to make the transition between out of foucs areas and first and last shot more smooth
  
• no need to tap start in the menu
  
• Helicon remote control can do this since 5 years, just saying...
  

 

All the menu options come in landscape orientation. Going to portrait orientation = turn head 90°. Yawn... Nikon, just look at PhaseOne, they do know their stuff.

 

But you're right, it's such an advantage to have this kind of DoF enlargement onboard.

 

*10 being not enough, I guessed 20 - also not enough, then I had the glorious idea to check the distance scale. With 30 shots, it ended up close to âˆž, but I did a 40 shot row just to be sure. 30 were enough. I think it took a bit too long to find out. Next year with Arsenal I gonna see if they have a better usability concept. At least, they merge the stack in-camera, if i want.

 

Thanks for the compliment, wide open at close distance still is not overly in use. It's worth to face the challenge of focusing.