Levitating Bugs with Sound Could Transform Scientific Photography

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35130156/

That Olympus camera they use is legendary for "focus stacking". I get frustrated taking pictures of flowers because even with a macro lens or very long lens you can't get all the parts of a flower in perfect "tack sharp" focus. Most people would say my flower pics are lovely

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114117492055570941

but if you look close you can see the closest and furthest parts of that day little aren't quite in focus. I shoot landscapes with the aperture at f/24, crank the ISO high, and remove the noise with DxO, but you can't get perfect flower photos that way.

It drives me nuts when I see other people's pictures that are better, but they get better photos by taking multiple images at different focuses and compositing them, see

https://learnandsupport.getolympus.com/om-system-ambassadors...

I should be able to do that with my Sony α7iv with the remote control I have but it's tricky and the Olympus system makes it a lot easier, Sony makes an α7R camera that has built in focus stacking but it has a sensor with way too many pixels for the sports photography I do where I went to a race last weekend and took 2400 photos and expect to publish one of almost all the 700 finishers. Here's the last event I did

https://www.yogile.com/strides-of-march-2025#21t

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10944478/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYTDq_k9Jik