Guys-

Check this out...

http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21351

This is a post by Rich Yourstone, who in my opinion is one of if not THE best N-scale modeler alive, but he's cracked the limitations of depth-of-field (area of a photo in-focus) with some new software.

Here's how it works-

put a digital camera on a tripod, and take a bunch of identical photos of your trains. Before each exposure, change the focus so that each photo is more in focus as it moves from closer to farther away from the camera. In other words, a small zone of each photo will be in focus, and everything else will be blurred. Here's the voodoo of the software- you select all the photos you took from within the software, and hit "run". The software stitches all the photos into one seamless, perfectly-focused photo that's in focus from a couple of inches in front of the camera all the way out to infinity.

The kicker, it's not available for the Mac, only Windows. (The big waaaaa sound you hear is me crying over my Mac).

Here's a link to the software...

http://heliconfilter.com/pages/focus_overview.html

Yep, this is a breakthrough on the digital front.... I predict you'll see some incredible photos in the magazines pretty soon...

-Phil

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