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DOFIS Tweaked
Just a short post to say I've tweaked the beta release of DOFIS to make it more user friendly. All the basic functionality remains as before, ie to give you infinity blur information and aid your focus...
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DOFIS just gets better and better
As previously mentioned, I consider DOFIS the best script that I've written. It does what it was designed to do and as best as it can.In this post I'm going to be talking about the latest DOFIS...
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DOFIS: Now diffraction aware
I was going to add a diffraction aware feature to DOFIS at a later date, but realised it was so easy to do, that I might as well add it now.The diffraction awareness in DOFIS means that it will use the...
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DOFIS: Update
As I wish to get DOFIS 'fighting fit' for all photographers as well as videographers, I've been rapidly field testing and updating the code. In this post I'll recap the status of DOFIS and talk about a...
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DOFIS: Registering a lens
In this post we will discuss how to register a lens in DOFIS.There are two lens models in DOFIS. A thin lens model, similar, but not identical, to the one built into Magic Lantern; and a split (zoom)...
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DOFIS: Perfect Focus Bracketing
In this post we will look at using DOFIS to achieve perfect focus bracketing.However, before we do, let's look at the latest DOFIS tweaks. First, the DOFIS LV UI has now been brought into line with the...
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DOFIS: Auto Bracketing Mode
Up until now, focus bracketing in DOFIS has been manually achieved, with DOFIS alerting you to the perfect position to be at, relative to your last captured image.In the latest version (download from...
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DOFIS: Tidying things up
[This is an edited version of the original post, as I had second thoughts on something]First, a few words on the thin lens model, eg like the one that is built into ML.The thin lens model is a...
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DOFIS: Now works with ML Advanced Bracketing
In this post I'm releasing the latest iteration of DOFIS, which is now compatible with Magic Lantern’s Advanced Bracketing.To achieve this compatibility, I've introduced two auto focus bracketing...
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DOFIS: EOSM
In previous posts I've restricted my DOFIS remarks to my 5D3. In this post, I'll say a few words about DOFIS and the EOSM.As long as you are running an ML build with the latest Lua fix module, DOFIS...
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A short post to say that I've refactored DOFIS and added more comments to the script.
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Magic Lantern is not only an incredible piece of software technology, but gives Canon EOS photographers and videographers things that Canon 'forgot' ;-)As mainly a landscape photographer, I personally...
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DOFIS: perfect focus and exposure bracketing for photographers
Those that have been following my DOFIS developments will know that I’ve been evolving DOFIS to be the single script that I have running for all my EOS photography needs. That is, helping me achieve...
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DOFIS: Indoor Test of 32 bit* Focus and Exposure bracketing
It's a windy day outside and the pestilence remains with us in the UK. So, in this post, I'm going to talk through an indoor test of using DOFIS in full auto exposure and focus bracketing modes.My use...
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DOFIS: Dual-ISO 16 bit floating point Processing Workflow
In the last post I showed how to maintain, what I called, a '32 bit' exposure and focus bracketed workflow throughout your post processing, ie from Lightroom, in and out of Helicon Focus, and if...
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DOFIS: and pseudo Medium Format photography
Like many, I'm sure, I've been looking at the downward cost in digital Medium Format cameras. Ok, some MF cameras remain out of reach at many 10s of thousands of pounds, but some are becoming...
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DOFIS: The start of a 'major' update
As mentioned in previous posts, the current version of DOFIS assumes a symmetrical lens, albeit a split, thin lens. In a symmetric lens, the entrance and exit pupils are collocated at the front and...
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DOFIS: Now supports Macro and Pano Photography
As promised in a previous post, DOFIS now uses an asymmetric, split lens model. This means that DOFIS gives both macro and pano photographers the best focus information they can get.Before explaining...
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Perfect panos and the no-parallax point
In this post all I want to do is highlight a few ways to find your lens no-parallax point: that is the point around which you should take panos to minimise/eliminate image to image 'stitching...
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More on the pano pivot point
In the previous post I discussed some well known ways to find the location of the front entrance pupil, eg using the 'pole technique', using a pencil light beam or using some lens modelling and simple...
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