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DOFIS: Minor update
Just a quick post to discuss a couple of tweaks to DOFIS and how to use the information it displays in the non-LV, Quick Shooting screen.DOFIS now alerts you to switch to M mode, as DOFIS works best in...
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A few thoughts for the landscape photographer
In this post I wish to say a few more words about focusing for landscape photography, with and without Magic Lantern; when we are trying to achieve 'deep focus' capture, ie everything from infinity to...
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DOFIS: Now Full Spectrum Friendly
Just a quick post to say that DOFIS has a new menu that is designed for those that shoot with a Full Spectrum or an Infra Red sensor conversion, where you need to tweak the diffraction model to match...
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The EOSM: The traveller's friend
If you trawl the Magic Lantern forum these days you would think that ML is just for videographers, trying to get the highest FPS they can, at the largest cinematic looking crop ;-)However, ML continues...
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DOFIS: Traffic Light Augmented Information
It seems these days that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is finding its way into nearly every part of our lives, and that includes photography. There is an obvious trend towards 'computational...
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For those that like equations
In the last post I introduced a traffic light based, Augmented Information feature in DOFIS.The augmented information sitting behind the feature is the defocus blur at the overlap between the depths of...
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EOS M3 update
With all my recent efforts being directed at my two Magic Lantern scripts, DOFIS and MUSIC, I feel I've rather neglected my 'third best' scripting camera: my EOS M3.Although Magic Lantern doesn't run...
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Helicon Focus Deep Focus Photography Demo
In this short post I will show how good Helicon Focus is at focus merging a deep stack of test images: albeit, once again, from my kitchen :-(I used my EOS M3, with my M3 Bracketing script, to capture...
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Sky Bracketing in Deep Focus Photography
As a 'scape photographer' my usual workflow is to ensure I've covered the dynamic range of the scene, exposure bracketing if required, and ensure I've covered the focus definition of my nearest point...
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DOFIS: Sky Bracketing
In the last post I introduced a sky bracketing feature to the CHDK focus bracketing script that runs on the Canon M3. This new feature takes a perfect focus bracket set, from near to infinity, and then...
View ArticleDOFIS: Infinity Bracketing
Just a quick post to say I've tweaked the DOFIS UI to better represent the 'sky bracketing' feature; which is now called Infinity Bracketing; and the DOFIS menu item has been changed to reflect this.As...
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More on Deep Focus Bracketing with the Canon M3
In a previous post I discussed the addition of sky or infinity bracketing in the Canon M3, ie at the end of a deep focus bracket, based on the logic that in a landscape the sky will be the brightest...
View ArticleM3 Brackets Update
Just a quick post to say I've just uplifted M3 Brackets (download from the right) with a few tweaks.I'll write a bit more on these in a future post, for now here are the tweaks:Code tweaks of no...
View ArticleM3 Brackets: Release 2
This post presents a video showing the M3 Brackets script (downloaded from the right) being used in the Canon M3.The script has been written with the 'scape photographer' in mind, and will allow the...
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Depth of field and exploiting your hidden friend
Advanced warning that this post is rather technical, but if you stick with it, you will hopefully increase your knowledge of depth of field, in a pragmatic way.The title of the post is not that...
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M3 Brackets: Pupil Magnification Update
Assuming you have read the last post, you will know what this post is all about: namely adding pupil magnification to the M3 Bracketing script.Rather than explicitly modelling pupil magnification, I've...
View ArticleM3 Brackets: tweaked to address CHDK integer math limitation
Just a quick update on my M3 Brackets script.Up until now, some of the algorithms I have used in M3 Brackets were taken straight from my Magic Lantern DOFIS script.When I originally did this, I thought...
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M3 Brackets: a change to the UI
This post is triggered by a few comments I got over on a DPReview forum. Namely, that I have been rather lax in my terminology and therefore some of my posts were confusing in places. Many thanks to...
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M3 Bracketing Update
Just a quick post to say I've tidied up the code in my M3 Bracketing script and added a new menu item:#help = 0 "Console" {Off On}The new menu items allows the user to switch the (single line) console...
View ArticleM3 Bracketing: fighting the Canon UI
As CHDK Lua or BASIC scripters will know, trying to maintain a clean UI, as you go in and out of ALT mode, and change the Canon interface, eg PLAY mode or display the Canon menus etc, is not a perfect...
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