wthomson Loc: Tempe, Arizona

When you do focus stacking with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II:

1. are you restricted to only certain lenses? If so, which ones?

2. do you end up with a RAW file or a JPEG? Is there a choice?

3. can focus stacking be combined with HI-RES to produce a single RAW/JPEG file?

Thanks.

Pstrykacz

I am not a professional, not even consider myself as an advanced amateur, just a geriatric enthusiast.
Since nobody answered your question so far, I will give here my "three pennies".
I don't own an Olympus camera, only and old Nikon D200.
But recently I also tried for the first time to snap a pic (pics, actually) for photo stacking, using only my standard equipment; a camera with a kit lens 18-70 and a tripod + photoshop, just to see what the fuss is about. The results surprised me!
Here is the link to my entry on this topic:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-589725-1.html

To answer your questions,
Ad.1 No, you can use anything you already have, but it is nice to have a macro lens (well, it depends what you want to photograph and what are your expectations).
Ad.2 If you have programmed your camera to snap in RAW - that's what you get. Or JPEGs, or both. You can stack your pics as JPEGs or TIFFs, but RAWs only if you use a dedicated software that allows such processing. In my case - it is a Nikon Capture 4.
Ad.3 I am not sure what you mean by Hi-RES? Are you talking about DPIs (dots per inch)? If so, yes, you can process your pics and the final stack in high DPIs ratio and save it as a RAW or a JPEG file.

I am sure, other more advanced members will elaborate more on this topic.

Have fun!

Thomas