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Landscape Focusing Helper Script
In the last article I introduced the idea that focusing at the HFD is not the ideal strategy for landscape photographers, eg you will only achieve acceptable focus at infinity.An alternative strategy...
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Had a brainwave as we were driving down to Cornwall, so an early update to the Landscape Focusing Helper Script (download on the right (Auto HFD2) or at...
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To Infinity…but not beyond!
Modern lens are technical marvels and simple to focus via their Auto Focus (AF) feature. However, this simplicity hides some complexes: take infinity focus.On older manual lenses there tended to be a...
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Introducing the 'The Focus Bar'
In previous posts I introduced a 'new', Magic Lantern based, approach to landscape focusing; based on the idea of monitoring the optical, diffraction and total blurs at infinity.This approach is...
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FOCUS Tutorial
With the first (full) release of my new FOcus COmpanion Script (FOCUS, downloadable on the right), I thought I would write a short tutorial on one of the use cases, namely landscape focusing.Before...
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Focus Bar for Magic Lantern
A simple post to say I've rationalised the focus bar script and it now runs in the background, and controllable from the ML FOCUS menu.I have cleaned up the UI and it now blends into the overall ML...
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Update to EOSM Toggler
Now I have the focus bar up and running, I needed to tweak the EOSM Toggler to ensure script-2-script compatibility in the UI.The EOSM Togger was written specifically for the EOSM, ie this version is...
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Focus Stacking using the Focus Bar
In previous posts I introduced the focus bar, which is a Magic Lantern add-on via a Lua script.This post is all about a new feature that helps with manual (sic) focus stacking.Landscape focus stacking...
View ArticleGetting the best out of the Focus Bar
Now that the focus bar is ‘stable’ and I've optimised it for my use (sic), I thought I would provide a few words on how others can get the best out of it. In a similar way to how ML’s ETTR, and RAW...
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Close enough
Now that my focus bar script is up and running, with a focus stacking functionality; I decided to take a deeper look at the math, and, in particular, the effect of ignoring the pupil magnification....
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Focus Bar update
A short post today just flagging the latest version of the focus bar (FOCUS on the right) as been released.This version has a clearer 'user manual' in the text of the script and introduces an...
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I wouldn't start from here if I were you
I think all of us know the old joke that is mentioned in the title of this post. Well doing focus stacking also brings that joke to mind. Do I start at infinity and work towards the foreground, our...
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Polarisation: Part 1
As all photographers know, in addition to other things, a polariser is useful for enhancing skies, and cutting our glare and reflections. So it should be a no-brainer that we use a polariser a lot of...
View ArticleContinuing the focus on focusing!
By now readers of my blog will know that I've tried, using Magic Lantern, to ensure I get the best control over focus that I can.We now know that using the hyperfocal distance is not (sic) the 'best'...
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Focusing by Colour
Hopefully the title of this post is intriguing enough that even a few random surfers may have dropped in. So to make things self contained, here is a recap of where we are: Magic Lantern is a fantastic...
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More colour, means more info!
Before publishing the last post I played around with an alternative presentation of the new infinity blur gauge: but decided to keep it simple.On reflection, I think it is better to give the user all...
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Warping can be fun
Modern lenses are incredible feats of engineering. Likewise, modern software is also incredible. Bring the two together with Magic Lantern and, well…you can get incredible images.To illustrate what can...
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A short post to say I've expanded the choices in the focus bar to allow you to decide what criterion you wish to use to calculate the near depth of field when in infinity blur mode.This is useful when...
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Travelling light: at all frequencies
Although I have an infrared converted camera (a 50D), it is rather large. Therefore, if I wish to travel light, the 50D and my 5D3 just don't fit...literally!For visible band photography, my go to...
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For goodness sake Garry: KISS
As we know, KISS means Keep It Simple Stupid. Well, from feedback, it is clear my focus bar fails the KISS test :-(As I’m introducing a ‘new’ way of (landscape) focusing Canon cameras with the focus...
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