P: Better auto stacking for bracketing, HDR, Focus Stacking and Panoramas

I often employ focus stacking when taking photographs. To remember where the focus stack set starts and stops, I will take a picture of my hand in front of the lens at the start and end of the stack set. When I import my photos into lightroom, my hand photos are included which keeps my stack sets grouped together but looks kinda ugly! It would be really cool if there were a way to select several images, in Lightroom, and link them together as a focus stacked group. This could be indicated by another small glyph, similar to the has been cropped, is in a collection, has edits glyphs. The glyph would appear on each image in a focus stack set group. Then when your hover over or click the glyph, all the pictures in the focus stack grouping could be highlighted somehow to indicate they belong together. Then, I could dispense with all the hand photos!

Since the auto stacking by time doesn't always work accurately, especially if some photo meta data are missing or let's say some pairs are missing a photo, it would be so much easier to select a group of photos and specify the amount of pairs to be stacked sequentially starting from the first selected photo.

I.e. stack every 3 photos from the first photo in the selection. 

Faster then manually selecitng pairs and using CTRL + G.

P.S. didn't find a feature request link on main page and understood from the migration that this is the new place to post them.

Why conversations get merged:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-auto-import-to-folders-organized-by-date/5f5f44f14b561a3d422ab0ba?commentId=5f5f48984b561a3d422bdf45 

Have LR scan my images, look for images that were shoot in sequence (and rapid succession, time should be measured from end of the image to the start of the next image, not start to start since I could have a  15 second exposure) and vary by aperture.  Look for a pattern such as -2 EV, -1 EV, 0 EV, +1 EV, +2EV. If requested run a quick comparison to make sure images are somewhat aligned (and of the same subject).    Might ask user for how HDR were shot (-0+, 0-+; though this could be learned by examining the image sequences, possibly number of shots, ...).  

My understanding is that canon does flag the bracketed images in exif

Not really a solution, more like a work-around. But a useful one until adobe implements better automatic handling of brackets.

What we need is stacking with fix amount of pictures. When i shot virtual tours in a DSLR i set my braketing to 5 or 7 images. sometime my exposure will be 1/30 and next image is 3 secs

having the ability to set fix number fix images per stack would help us a lot. 

@Rikk

What we need is stacking with fix amount of pictures. When i shot virtual tours in a DSLR i set my braketing to 5 or 7 images.

having the ability to set fix number fix images per stack would help us a lot.  

@bryn_forbes One "problem" is Adobe's auto stacking algorithm, which I think should be extremely easy for them to correct, is that they look at the time difference between the start of each image, rather than the time difference between the end of the previous image and the start of the next image. 

@pecohen If not automatically adding a tag, let me flag the first (and perhaps the last image) of a series