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Helicon Focus for Mac OS X
The program is designed for:
- micro photography (camera + optical microscope )
- macro photography (camera + macro lenses )
- landscape photography (infinite depth of field )
Use free Helicon 3D Viewer to share your 3D results with your coleagues and friends.
Helicon Focus Lite (basic version):
- automatically adjusts and resizes images (important for stereomicroscopes and macrophotography), see samples here;
- optimized to use all processors available:
- 1.7 times faster with 2 processors (it is true for all Core 2 Duo Intel Macs);
- 2.3 times faster with 4 processors (it is true for all 1 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon Macs);
- would you like to test performance on your 2 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon Mac? ;)
- has no limitation on image resolutions (you need at least 512M RAM to work with 8Mp+ images);
- processes an unlimited number of images in the stack;
- preserves details by using advanced interpolators for image manipulation (Lanczos, Sinc256);
- internal workflow always uses 16 bit color depth to preserve colors;
- provides possibility to clean dust artifacts, by removing black points from the resulting images;
- automatically adjusts brightness of the adjacent images;
- reads RAW, 8bit and 16bit TIFFs, JPEG, JPEG 2000, BMP, etc;
- writes 8bit and 16bit TIFFs, JPEG, JPEG 2000, BMP, PSD, PNG.
Helicon Focus Pro (advanced version):
- includes all the features of the Lite version;
- retouching brush to clone from aligned source images to the resulting image (cannot be performed with external photo editor);
- 2D micropanorama;
- Export of 3D model of the object to Helicon 3D Viewer (included into Helicon Focus v4.2+ installation)
- Export of animated stacks (v4.2+)
Helicon Focus Pro X64 (premium version):
- includes all the features of the Pro version;
- enables running in 64 bit mode to get advantages of all available physical memory, significantly improves performance on machines with more than 2Gb of RAM;
Please be aware that Helicon Focus Pro X64 license is available starting from Mac OS X 10.5 only! For Mac OS X 10.4.11 users we deployed 4.0.5 version.
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"No matter how carefully you clean your lenses and chip there will be residual dust left, plus the drying rings from the cleaning fluid (I use Eclipse from Photo Solutions)… "
"It is tempting to shoot a macro picture in a single shot if the depth of field at f32 is large enough. But what will the result be? After much experimenting with my Canon 1Ds and 100mm macro… "
"Ever wonder how many slices you have to shoot to get 1 mm of object depth at a given magnification? I use a Manfrotto macro rail which advances 1.25 mm per 360° turn of the crank… "
Interesting posts in the forum:
"No matter how carefully you clean your lenses and chip there will be residual dust left, plus the drying rings from the cleaning fluid (I use Eclipse from Photo Solutions)… "
"It is tempting to shoot a macro picture in a single shot if the depth of field at f32 is large enough. But what will the result be? After much experimenting with my Canon 1Ds and 100mm macro… "
"Ever wonder how many slices you have to shoot to get 1 mm of object depth at a given magnification? I use a Manfrotto macro rail which advances 1.25 mm per 360° turn of the crank… "