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Although I tend to use Olympus more than the other bodies, it is because of their built in focus stacking. I have found over the years focus bracketing, first using a CamRanger with Nikon bodies, then using the functionality built into Fuji bodies, finding the closest point of a subject to the lens is not always easy, particularly with small subjects and aging eyesight. What I like about Olympus' implementation is it takes the first image at the focus point, then moves the focus away from the subject closer to the camera then takes three images moving towards the original focus point, then eleven images past the focus point, ensuring getting what is the closest point is in focus. For birding it is 99% Nikon. I'm not a fan of Nikon's focus (shift) bracketing implementation. I find both Olympus and Fuji make life easier for the photographer, particularly when the camera is in an awkward position in the field. However, what I do like about the Nikon is that it leaves the focus at the last image, which if you need to add a few more images to the stack it does make it easy. Olympus used to be like that, but then they followed Fuji with resetting the focus point back to the start after the stack is finished.