Getting the S1R to trigger from a stacking controller is a bit tricky. When I get a new camera I usually buy its remote and wire that to a socket that goes into the female WeMacro or Stackshot cord. But the S1R has a more complex mechanism in its remote. I didn't use its remote; the old Panasonic Lumix remotes for the FZ200/300/330 fit the S1R and are easier to modify. I clipped a slice of a US copper penny and inserted it between the half-press and full-press contacts, and then connected the third contact to one control wire, and the half-press contact to the other control wire. When the controller shorts the two control wires, the camera simultaneously executes a half-press and full press, and this works. I'll take some pictures of the finished product later.
For my first stack I used the exciting hi res mode, which was the main reason I bought the camera. It makes 187Mp images!!! I imagine that the actual effective number of informative pixels is 5/8 *187 = 116Mp, using the same factor as in the Olympus cameras which use the same kind of algorithm.
The uncompressed RAW images are 300Mb each, and are 16736 x 11168 pixels. These are crazy numbers, and stacking such images stresses my computer. But it is worth it!
A sharp, fairly fast lens is needed for this mode to work well. For this test I used a Repro-Nikkor 85mm f/1.0, used at f/2.0 and m=1, so with an effective aperture of f/4.0. I'll write more about this amazing lens elsewhere on the forum.
Above is the full stacked image. I accidentally did not catch the whole image in the stack; some of the corners are not in focus. I stacked the RAW files, converted to Tiffs with default ACR sharpening turned to zero. After stacking I sharpened the final output strongly, and used some de-hazing, a small amount of clarity, and increased saturation. I did no retouchig, so some DMap artifacts are visible on the wing edges and some scales. The reduced image above doesn't do justice to the real image, which is bitingly sharp on my display.
I then resized the giant image by 50% so it is just an ordinary 47Mp image. Here are two 100% crops of that normal-sized image derived from the giant image. It differs from a normal FF image because every pixel has full RGB information.
There is an unprecedented level of detail here.
Below are a few 100% crops of the full 16736 x 11168 pixel hi-res image (Zerene DMap). Remember that to see this same area of the wing on an ordinary FF image at m=1, you would have to zoom in to 200% of the ordinary image.
