EOS R50: How to edit in camera stacked photos

[Gmiller49]

Hello,  I am working with an EOS R50 and MacBook Pro, Sequoia15.5.  I just made my first in-camera stacked photo. 

I am unable to edit the photo in either the Canon app or Affinity.  The immediate issue is with the cropping. I can go through the steps of cropping, it will look like the crop is made, but then when I save the image the crop doesn't hold. It just reverts back to the original photo.

Any tips as to how to edit in-camera stacked photos will be much appreciated.  

Thank you! 

[shadowsports]

Greetings ,

The camera can perform the focus bracketing but you'll need to combine the photos in a post-process editor like DPP.  

[FloridaDrafter]

Hello, Gmiller!

Just to be clear, once you click "OK" your edits are not saved to a new image?

Newton

 

[FloridaDrafter]

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@shadowsports wrote:

The camera can perform the focus bracketing but you'll need to combine the photos in a post-process editor like DPP.  

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Hey there, Rick!

The R50 will do "in camera" stacking. You have less control over the final image, but it does a decent job. Most of the newer R's will combine your shots for you, my R5 II does.

Newton

[shadowsports]

Newton ,

Thank you, this is great to know. I knew it could do the bracketing or stacking but I didn't know it would let you save to a single file.  

[Gmiller49]

Thank you both so very much. This is the first time I have ever used a forum of any kind and I am so grateful for your replies.  

As near as I can tell, my situation is something like what Newton refers to. My image saved as a single file and I do not have any idea as to where the photos (40 of them) that comprise the single image are.  It's just a single jpg that does not lend itself to editing.

Thank you again for your insights.  

[FloridaDrafter · Accepted solution]

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@Gmiller49 wrote:

Thank you both so very much. This is the first time I have ever used a forum of any kind and I am so grateful for your replies.  

As near as I can tell, my situation is something like what Newton refers to. My image saved as a single file and I do not have any idea as to where the photos (40 of them) that comprise the single image are.  It's just a single jpg that does not lend itself to editing. 

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I'm not sure why your JPeG can not be edited. As to cropping, it can only be done once on a particular image, so it's possible that you have "Crop depth comp." Enabled. This may count as a crop. I have always disabled that so I don't know if it does or not, in fact, I stack in DPP 4 where I have more control over the process.

As to files used to make the in camera composite, they are discarded when you let the camera make the composite. You sometimes have to read between the lines or take instructions literally in Canons manuals. The first bullet in this screen shot from the R50 manual is sorta vague, but to me, it implies that only the composited JPeG file is saved and the originals are discarded when "Enable" is selected. The second bullet is pretty straight forward and enforces that "Enable" will discard the originals.

I hope this helps!

Newton

[Gmiller49]

That's good information.  I am not sure what exactly happened but these steps really clarify what I was attempting without clear steps.  There is of course an element of user error.  Now with going step by step it has all worked out.  This is a real game-changer for me. 

Thank you very much for your insights!