Magic Lantern 0.2.1 – User's Guide
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1. Movie Bit Rate CBR 8x BuffWarnLevel 76 Time Indicator Remain 4GB Bitrate Info Movie Logging Movie Restart MovieModeRemap Movie REC key WB workaround ON save WB in cfg Force LiveView Start 8 CPU lensed Force HDMI VGA OFF code B1 ding if it happens to stop 18 Functions specific to movie mode Bit Rate CBR 0 1x 3x Controls H 264 bitrate used for video recording Possible modes only CBR is available from menu OScale is a hidden setting CBR constant bitrate You specify a factor for multiplying default video bi trate between 0 1x and 3x CBR 1x is the firmware default setting QScale constant quality variable bitrate VBR Available values 16 16 Lower numbers mean higher bitrates Keys Change numeric value with SET and PLAY Reset bitrate to CBR 1x firmware default with Q Notes CBR actually works by varying OScale the instant value is displayed near the recording dot You can push the bitrate higher if you record without sound then use Audio RemoteShot to sync the video with an external audio track There is a bitrate OScale display near the red recording dot Slower cards will not handle high bitrates and recording will stop automati cally if you try to use them This includes certain cards labeled as Class10 In OScale mode bitrate varies a lot with frame complexity and you have no direct control over its value In CBR mode on scenes witho2. e OFF LiveView display image does not reflect the exposure but may be useful for framing and checking focus e Auto ExpSim is disabled during zoom x5 x10 and MagicZoom but only if shutter is not pressed halfway enabled otherwise When ExpSim is off zebra histogram waveform and false color are not displayed 35 Show cropmarks in Movie mode Movie Photo It does just that See Cropmark for more info ISO selection e All values use all available ISO speeds in 1 8 EV steps e 100x 160x use only native ISOs multiples of 100 and ISO values with lower digital gain multiples of 160 Crop Factor Display If enabled ML bottom bar will display the 35mm equivalent focal length including crop factor 1 6x For example a 50mm lens at f1 8 will be displayed as e 50 1 8 with this option disabled e 80eq 1 8 with this option enabled Swap MENU ERASE Swaps MENU and ERASE buttons This feature allows one handed navigation in ML menu on 60D but will have to use MENU button to delete the pictures DispOFF in PhotoMode On 60D in photo mode outside LiveView a long half shutter press will turn off the display if main shooting screen is active You can turn it back on by pressing INFO LiveView Zoom x5 x10 Control the zoom feature in LiveView Change x5 x10 settings with PLAY and tog gle with SET e x5 only x5 zoom will be available disables x10 zoom e x10 only x10 zoom wil
3. DISP Zoom In Zoom Out on 600D when not recording quickly enable disable 3x zoom see DigitalZoom Shortcut Activating AF mode dialog when Manual Focus is active will toggle Trap Focus 10 Magic Lantern menu e Press ERASE 550D 60D 600D 500D Picture Style 50D or AV 1100D to bring up the Magic Lantern menu e Use arrow keys or joystick to navigate s Use SET PLAY and Q to change values e Press DISP or INFO button to get help On 500D Q is the LiveView button on 50D it s the joystick press or the FUNC button In photo mode outside LiveView you can use the wheel s to navigate in ML menu Press Zoom In button to activate edit mode and change values of a menu item with the wheel ex perimental Audio Audio Meters ON Analog Gain 23 dB Al DigitalGain A dB AR DigitalGain dB AGC OFF Input Source Auto INT ext Mic Power ON Low 2 AOutput volume dB Monitoring USB ON aks from 48 dB to dB Video Ryan s T2i Tips and Reviews Onboard Mic vs ATR 3350 Lav vs Rode VideoMic Video Canon_T2i 550D_with_Magic_Lantern _DSLR_Audio_that_you_can_use Video Audio_Conclusions Manual audio controls This menu is only available on 550D T2i and 60D The 600D T3i already has manual audio control but right now it s not possible to change audio settings from Magic Lantern You can only use audio meters during recording Audio Meters ON OFF Draw the audio meters or not This sett
4. If you select Sticky the DOF preview button will become sticky click to toggle To lock the DOF preview button only once press Q AF frame display Show AutoHide Control the appearance of AF frame e Show show the AF frame just like the standard firmware e AutoHide the AF frame is only displayed when you move it and then it disappears after 1 second or so LCD Sensor Shortcuts ON OFF Enables the use of LCD sensor as an extra shift key and also enables the LCD sensor in LiveView See LCD Sensor Shortcuts for details To fully disable the LCD sensor in Magic Lantern disable LCD auto off from Canon menu Wrench 1 You need to do this if you are using a device which covers the LCD sensor e g a loupe Auto BurstPicQuality ON OFF When enabled it will temporarily reduce picture quality in burst mode in order to maintain a decent frame rate even when the buffer becomes almost full This function will reduce picture quality if the buffer has space for less than 4 pic tures e RAW JPG gt JPG Large Fine gt JPG Medium Fine e RAW JPG Large Fine gt JPG Medium Fine e JPG Large Coarse gt JPG Medium Coarse Possible results 550D Transcend Class 10 your mileage may vary e RAW JPG JPG L all others JPG M e RAW RAW all others JPG M Exposure Simulation OFF ON Auto Exposure simulation ExpSim in LiveView display for photo mode only e ON LiveView display image reflects exposure of the final image
5. MAGIC LANTERN Magic Lantern pre0 2 2 for Canon 550D 60D 600D 500D and 50D User s Guide http magiclantern wikia com unified 2011 11 11 Magic Lantern is an open GPL framework for developing enhancements to the amazing Canon 5D Mark II and 550D T2i digital SLRs Magic Lantern is being developed by a small team helped by a very enthusiastic and respectful user community Initial version by Trammell Hudson original author and lead of Magic Lantern project Crypto tools and firmware analysis by Arm Indy AJ Main developer for 550D and 60D cameras Alex 550D 1 0 9 port by Arm Indy 60D port by Arm Indy Jason xaos SztupY Alex 600D port by Arm Indy Vincent Olivier Alex tested by Scrax 50D port by Arm Indy Chuchin Pelican Alex tested by Smeangol Max Chen ectaVgen ilguercio and others 1100D port by Arm Indy Nanomad Alex early testing by Heavendew 500D port by Chuchin AlinS Coutts Patches by piersg nandoide stefano trho deti tapani phil RoaldFre Colin Peart cpc msi robotsound maclema adijiwa Card tools by Pel Zeno lichtjaar Cropmarks by CameraRick Robert bwwd turbinicarpus Dremelv21 similaar Tutorials by sawomedia Chung Dha Dave Dugdale Malcolm Debono MediaUnlocked Jeremy Lauren Stevens Shayne35mm Mordy Gilden Ryan Sauv Renny Hayes Daniel Dod3032 3615geek CineDigital tv jeveux doncjevilme Chadwick Shoults Magic Lantern logo by elJoseph Thanks to all the users wh
6. What is it How does it Compare to HDR How Do I Do It To run the HDR scripts on the computer move the scripts and the JPGs in the same directory and run for example bash HDR_1001 SH or for processing all the images at once for f in 1s SH do bash f done On Windows you can use Cygwin or MSYS to run the scripts Don t forget to delete the scripts from the card the camera won t delete them Take a pic every X seconds Record Y seconds pause X seconds Change the intervalometer settings first setting appears in photo mode second appears in movie mode There is also a mode named Take pics like crazy which does exactly that This is the best tool for killing your shutter Intervalometer ON OFF 23 Video Hot_Air_Balloons_Timelapse Video Timelapse_Workflow_Tutorial_using_Free_Software Start stop intervalometer e In photo mode it takes a sequence of photos e In movie mode it takes a sequence of small videos unless Silent Picture is active You can stop the intervalometer by rotating the mode dial Tips e To avoid flicker shoot in manual mode or use Bulb Ramping use manual white balance avoid short exposure times and use a manual lens if you use an EF lens lock the aperture and unscrew it e To save the shutter count when doing timelapses enable Silent Picture or use the intervalometer in Movie mode e When using the intervalometer in LiveView with noisy mode your shutter will
7. These settings can not be changed from the ML menu 44 Delay between clearing the overlay in Clear Preview mode clear preview delay 500 Background color for waveform waveform_bg 20 Semitransparent gray waveform_bg 3 Semitransparent black waveform_bg 0 Transparent enable QScale h264 bitrate mode 2 O is FW default 1 is CBR 2 is VBR h264 qscale plusi6 8 QScale plus 16 range 0 32 shutter display in degrees on the bottom bar shutter display degrees 1 hide zebras when recording zebra nrec 1 Enable Split Screen display for Magic Zoom zoom_overlay_split 1 45
8. RRR RR e LED sensor TL T Flash button Shorteuts a E E ISC Tas ROMS so ci A ee e A we A a ee Magic Lantern menu o NN Audio Meters ON 7 OFF ooo si ia a Ha a a a Analog Gan By a og shee T a a L DigitalGain and R DigitalGain dB gt gt ce eote KN RRR R NR ee AGC ON OFF oo R NR K e a Re eS INPUESMIMNS concerns T E R T RR a a Dic ove c N FOF Loa aa AA waded baa Aa Montone T COON COBB TT Cpu volame taB lt ae i aaa e ae e M gE eee TAO Zost E REEE R ee Global Draw ON7 OFF oore a hee Se ee RE EE O RR E Brat an Histo Wavefm ON Luma RGB for histogram OFF Small Large Fullscreen o A RM wR Re Sa nk ow HR eo he 14 Zebras OFF Luma RGB lo_level hi_level 14 False color scan eee Rae A es A A Maa e REE K 14 Cropmiks S D po eee ne a a a as oO 15 Ghostimage CHIN ZEE o sa RE RR e haen o RR a K N 16 Dietishine ONSOEP Usos cr re iaa a a a 16 Spotmeter OEP 7 Percent IRE ec caas ese ce ede a cra a 16 ClearScreen OFF HalfShutter Whenldle ooo oo 16 Focus Peak OFF HDIF MORE threshold color mode naaa aa 17 Magic Zoom OFF Zrec Zr F ALW Small Med Large AFF NW NE SE SW 17 Split Screen CIN 7 OFF ZETOCIOSS cocos a a 18 Moyi scire ncerriiei niapi LER ERE ea eS eae EE eS 18 Bit Rate CBR D si OX es a a ee ee e aega ee ee oe 19 ButWamLevel 30 100 oa bee cea ee eee eee ee R 19 Time Indicator OFF Elapsed Remain Card Remain4GB 20 Bitrate Info ON SORP 2 2
9. and GM HDR setting under battery icon MLU setting under Q icon LCD remote status icon MW Free space on the card in GB under number of remaining shots 42 LiveView Bottom bar press DISP INFO a few times to show it Current shooting mode Lens focal length and aperture shutter ISO white balance Focus_distance Exposure compensation Top bar Clock Current display preset Picture quality setting Picture style CMOS temperature Battery indicator 60D LCD remote status icon 550D Number of pictures remaining estimated Free space on the card in GB In the middle of the screen Spotmeter Around the recording dot Time remaining display Bitrate info instant and average bitrate and qscale factor Buffer indicator see also BuffWarnLevel Left side Status for trap focus follow focus Top side Audio meters and audio input source for each channel LCD remote status icon AN Focus Graph This item is displayed when you enable Trap Focus It draws a small graph which shows the amount of focus in the AF frame the little rect angle over the last few seconds Focus computation is done by Canon s autofocus al gorithm Since the function which measures the amount of focus is heavily influenced by other factors like contrast and exposure ML attempts to normalize the value If you are focusing manually try to position the lens such as you ge
10. dead time the S curve you see on the screen which is the relationship between luma and EV If the lighting changes suddenly a few stops between two shots the algorithm should recover completely after 2 or 3 shots Bulb Timer 1s 8h Very long exposures with Bulb mode and ML timer This feature is useful for night shots and astrophotography Bulb timer is started by half shutter press or by remote triggers intervalometer Tip you can cancel the exposure earlier by half pressing the shutter button LCD Remote Shot OFF Near Away Wave Start stop remote shutter release mode with the LCD sensor e Near To take a picture put your hand near the LCD sensor e Away Picture is taken when you get your hand away from the sensor You may combine this setting with Mirror Lockup e w Wave Picture is taken after you wave your hand 3 times near the sensor You can leave it on without interfering too much with normal shooting This feature is useful for avoiding camera shake In Movie mode the Wave w setting is able to start and stop recording movies The other modes can only start recording because it s too easy to stop recording by mistake 26 Audio RemoteShot ON OFF Start stop remote audio trigger To take a picture or start recording a movie make some loud noise for example clap your hands or pop a balloon You can also start movie recording with this feature Tip with the audio trigger you can sync a vide
11. focus from the LCD sensor avoiding shake Recommended focus step settings e Focus StepSize 1 or 2 e Focus StepDelay without Wait flag large delays around 100 ms gt will ignore small position errors with Wait flag small delays only lens is in very good mechanical condition Stack focus Video DOF_and_Focus_stacking This selection will shoot a series of photographs with varying focus points It is used in macro photography to assemble sharper final images by merging photos where each has a different focus point This function will also create scripts named like named FST_1234 SH which can be used for stacking the images with enfuse See Exposure bracketing for details on how to use these scripts and the focus stacking section from Enfuse reference manual Usage 1 Configure rack focus and use it to preview the focus range 2 Select the number of focus steps to skip This will determine the number of pictures to be taken 3 Press PLAY to start the focus sequence PLAY mode or take the first pic ture SNAP mode You can also combine this function with HDR bracketing and silent pictures Recommended focus step settings same as rack focus 33 The following items are display only Focus Dist The distance to the focal point Value is returned by most newer Canon lenses If the lens does not report any distance information 0 will be displayed and the DOF calculations will not be correct See also Focu
12. ported from 4 plus Trap Focus ON OFF Takes a picture when the subject comes into focus You need to set the to Manual focus MF and hold the shutter pressed halfway e Outside LiveView it only works with lenses with chip e In LiveView it only works for photos and it will take a picture when the focus indicator has almost maximum value on the focus graph Notes for LiveView trap focus You may have to turn the lens back and forth a few times in order to let ML compute the correct focus scaling factor for the current scene If you move from a high contrast scene to a low contrast one you will also have to wait a bit until the high contrast data disappears from the focus graph Focus Patterns ON OFF Custom focus patterns which can be used either with autofocus or trap focus B B B B B o o o o o o D o o o o o o o o o o o o D o o o o o o o o o o o B B B B B a B a a a o o o o o o o a o o o D o o D o o o o o o D o o o o o o o o o o o o a a a a a a a a B H a o o o o o o o o o D o o D o o o o o o D o o o o o o o o o o o a o D a a To change the focus pattern e Set your camera in photo mode non LiveView s Look through the viewfinder and make sure the LCD display is off 31 e Change the focus pattern with the arrow keys and SET you may or may not receive visual feedback e Press the Zoom In button twice to see the current selection You can use the custom focus patterns in LiveView Quick Focus mode
13. resolution 1720x974 choose Ful1HD to record a dummy movie Details here e Silent Pic Hi Res emulates high resolution by taking a matrix of small silent pics in zoom x5 mode You need to have the camera on a tripod and the subject should be static a picture is taken in a few seconds Could be useful for focus stacking or for timelapse without increasing shutter count 27 e Slit scan Pic this takes distorted images like these This mode is basically an extreme jello effect which can be used in creative ways Keys e SET toggle modes normal slit scan PLAY Q toggle between Single Burst Ful1HD in normal mode available matrix sizes which give the image resolutions in Hi Res mode timing number of clocks to skip after each line in Slit scan mode Silent picture setting is applied to intervalometer and remote triggers It will also go to LiveView when you press the shutter half way Therefore you should only enable this setting when you actually use it Images are saved in DCIM 1xxCANON after the following rules s Ifintervalometer is OFF silent pics are named after last picture movie taken without this function e g 1234 001 422 You are limited to 1000 silent pictures for each noisy picture e If intervalometer is ON silent pics have names like 12345678 422 Tip use File Numbering gt Manual Reset from Canon menu to in crease folder number to sort them easier To convert a 422 image to
14. te EERE ae ee eee eee Od SOAS Config AutosaverON OPP e soie eg e a he o ee ees PAVE COMME TOM EI Delete coils HE one epar ehh eh ERA REAM PR eR hee EAS MOUSE LBS ies Me cdo eect Chae Soh Ra eh eRe oo es PENS Re Extra info displays Main shooting screen outside LiveView 0 0 2 eee E dpp eek pi eh p he sd ted enw ee a Se e Mie wee Se Wd Me Power saving Hidden settings 42 42 43 44 44 FAQ Does Magic Lantern completely replace Canon firmware No Magic Lantern runs from the card as an add on over standard firmware You will still be able to access all Canon functionality To go back to Canon firmware you may e Hold the shutter button half pressed at startup to bypass ML only once for the current session e Format your card in the camera and choose to remove Magic Lantern press Q e Disable the bootflag this will uninstall ML from the camera to do this run Firmware Upgrade and follow the instructions How do I erase all of the images without removing ML Canon menu gt Format gt Format card keep Magic Lantern How do I record for more than 12 minutes e Lower the bitrate CBR 0 4 will let you record continuously for 30 minutes e Use Movie restart but you will lose a few seconds when a new file is created e To record continuously for more than 30 minutes you need to use a HDMI recorder Select ClearScreen Whenldle to hide all graphical overlays and enable Half press shutter Every seco
15. the Technicolor CineStyle picture style luma will have values between 16 and 255 therefore you will have to set the underexposure threshold to 16 or greater False color This is a tool for evaluating the exposure It shows different luma Y levels using a color map You can press Q to select one of the following color maps aad adi bf x 1 ell Tips 14 you may configure a display preset with False Color and toggle it with a single button press you may use the transparent false color presets to highlight areas exposed at 50 IRE or 70 IRE you may use the last preset to reveal color banding especially with low contrast picture styles Cropmks x n Video Cropmarks_Tutorial Select cropmarks cycle between them There are 6 predefined cropmarks in ML zip archive HD with Title and Action Safe Cinemascope for videos Cross meter for photos Passport ISO IEC 19794 5 compliant Golden Mean Phi a version for photos and another for videos 16 9 black bars for 550D in video mode H Ta N o an P OY Notes By default cropmarks are displayed only in Movie mode You can enable cropmarks in photo modes from the Tweaks menu see Show cropmarks in Movie mode All modes If you use custom cropmarks place them in CROPMKS folder on your SD card and give them short 8 3 names The number in paranthesis Cropmks x n shows the selected cropmark number and the number of detected cropmarks Y
16. wear twice as fast than outside LiveView e If the intervalometer can t be stopped it may happen in crazy mode turn the camera off or open the card door Power Saving e When not in LiveView press DISP or INFO to turn the display off e In LiveView ML will turn the display and the sensor off during idle times if you enable this option from Poversave menu e While the intervalometer is running the card led will blink once per second to let you know it s alive and kicking Bulb Ramping ON OFF Video Bulb_ramping_example Bulb Ramping allows the capture of a timelapse that gradually changes exposure compensating for the transition from day to night This option will adjust shutter and ISO automatically using the 180 degree rule Quick start 1 Take a picture of your scene You will use it to say I want my timelapse to be exposed like this picture 2 Enable Bulb Ramping and Intervalometer 3 Leave the camera still while ML runs a calibration step e Make sure you have a static and well lit scene any static scene which does not require long exposure should be fine e After calibration you should get a nice S curve on the screen 4 Now you will have to say what tone range to meter for i e highlights mid tones Follow the wizard 24 Use arrow keys to select your reference picture which you just took e Use the main dial to select the tone range to meter for You can t per fectly match two ima
17. 6 ea chee cb bea RRR ecb been eed eases 20 Movie Restart ON OPF 2 0 aR ee ee es 20 MATO IE oore Z Re Sarde Pak a amp Paki R teal ekg Piece 20 MovieModeRemap ADEP CAS 24 46 2066 0 84 cate Re eee ea as 20 Movie REC key Default HalfShutier 26 00 2645 04 ee ee ee arans 21 Shutter Locke CTN PORE 2 6 000 id eM eee de RSs eee ESS 21 REC STEY OOE 0 eb a a e ek Be A eS 21 Digital Zoom Shortcut xox 7 IX l X oo cc R ee eee eee R ras 21 Force LiveView OFF Start amp CPU lenses Always o o o ooo 21 Force HOMEY ON SORE ir se Ee wale ee e rea T ee 21 Movie Recond ONZOFF 50D only ep ue ee ee 22 Exposure Lock ON SUPP QOD ONY so h Gen aie R aa a A Ew 22 Shutter Button Leave unchanged Block during REC Hold during REC IS SUD Only i reat bead E 22 T RRA 22 HOR Brit o os ar e a A Sb oe 23 Take a pic every X seconds Record Y seconds pause X seconds 23 bera Greens ON7OFF sa se eee a Re we R R R a a N 24 Bulb Ramping ON ORP oo 6 ek e eee Dae wa le L 24 Bulb Timer 1 080 ocer ba ea eee RA ee aw EEE EA EN eS 26 LCD Remote Shot OFF Near Away Wave lt e RR 26 Audio RemoteShot ON OFF 2 6 26 0 066 ce eee eee eee ees 27 Moton Detect OFF EXP DIF 2 282 Sae nee R hu kern usann N RR 27 Silent Picture Silent Pic HiRes Slit scan PiC 27 Mirror Lockup OFF 7 ON 7 TimerRemote occa 69 S S R 9 9 RR daras N 28 Le BES o e e 29 a AI 29 WhiteBalance F500 1200 ui Oe a al ey 29 WBS
18. JPEG on the PC use 422 jpg exe Windows and Wine or 422 jpg py all platforms you need to install Python PIL and numpy Double click it then select a single 422 file or click Cancel and select a folder with 422 files You can also use this program in command line Known bugs e FullHD option will cause errors during playback they are caused by dummy videos which were removed by ML but camera thinks they are still there After restart the errors will disappear e Burst mode may cause a horizontal cut in the images this happens because LiveView buffers are updated faster than card writing speed and ML can t slow them down Mirror Lockup OFF ON Timer Remote Mirror Lockup Timer Remote will auto enable MLU under one of the following conditions and disable it otherwise e self timer mode is on either 2 second or 10 second but not continu ous s LCD Remote Shot is in Away mode 28 Expo 1314 A 4 I fluto dWhiteBalance 6500K n WBShift G M Magenta 5 4Shutter 1 48 AfAperture 2 8 Light Adjust OFF PictureStyle Landscape REC PicStyle Faithful dContrast Ba dSaturation a Flash AEco B B EV Flash exposure compensation from 18EV to 3EV Adjusting the exposure parameters Most of these settings only work in Manual photo and video and some of them work in P Av and Tv too ISO 100 25600 Fine tuning for ISO in 1 8 EV steps Not all values are accepted by all cameras or in al
19. accord ing to 180 degree rule For example let s say you set Take pics every 40 seconds ML will try to set the shutter speed between 90 and 270 degrees In our example it will be chosen between 10 and 30 seconds if the light condi tions allow it If the scene is too bright or too dark shutter will be chosen between 1 1000 at ISO 100 and d 2 seconds at max auto ISO up to 6400 where d is the delay between two shots Techincal notes Exposure is adjusted using a condition like this for example 70 of pixels should be below 50 brightness 25 e Exposure for every shot is computed from previous shot only camera will go to Play mode for one second to compute the exposure from the histogram e ISO is chosen using the 180 degree rule so the resulting shutter speed stays between 90 and 270 degrees that is between 1 4 and 3 4 of the delay be tween two shots e Only native ISOs 100 200 400 etc are used for best dynamic range e Shutter speed can be adjusted with a resolution of 10ms e Frames with fast shutter speeds less than 1 second in Rebel cameras less 0 1 seconds in 60D are taken in Manual mode You will get flicker e It can go from 1 1000s ISO 100 daylight to several minutes of exposure time Q ISO 6400 complete darkness s Exposure algorithm is a P feedback controller with gain equal to 0 8 at each step it performs 80 of the correction Process model is a nonlinear gain with
20. age Spy prop evt mem e prop display property changes in real time See Properties e evt Display GUI events in real time See GUI_Events 550D e mem Display memory addresses which change but not those which change like mad Useful for detecting interesting Memory Addresses inside the cam era RAM like sensor amp button locations To enable this feature compile Magic Lantern with CONFIG_DEBUGMSG 1 Stability tests This option runs various tests to make sure Magic Lantern is stable and will not crash You can use it to test your particular configuration If it crashes report an issue Half press shutter OFF sticky every second every 200 ms every 20 ms 39 With this option you can get all sorts of cool tricks Disable powersaving in LiveView Set this option to every second Enable manual focus or back button focus to avoid side effects Keep the meter reading always on Same as above Trap focus without having to hold the shutter Assign AF to half shutter button enable trap focus and set this option to sticky Use front LED as AF assist light 550D Enable red eye reduction disable AF assist beam firing enable back button focus pop up the flash and make this option sticky Focus with the back button If you don t want to take the picture with flash close it after focusing Highlight current AF points In photo mode set this option to every 20 ms and assign AF to half shut
21. d as a simple remote see LCD Remote Shot as a simple wireless follow focus or as shift key see also SensorShortcuts option LCD sensor UP DOWN adjust LCD backlight level LCD sensor LEFT RIGHT in LiveView adjust audio gain volume for recording LCD sensor Arrows see Follow Focus LCD sensor Zoom In activates Magic Zoom Flash button shortcuts This feature is only available on 550D and 500D On 600D the DISP button is used instead Flash in Movie mode short press change current display preset Flash UP DOWN in Movie mode adjust Kelvin white balance Flash LEFT RIGHT in Movie mode adjust ISO Misc shortcuts Half shutter press at startup loads vanilla firmware does not load Magic Lantern You may have to be in one of these modes P Tv Av or M ISO gt LV switch to Movie mode from photo mode To switch back to photo mode you need to turn the mode dial back and forth one notch ISO gt DISP 550D ISO gt INFO 600D Metering 60D change current display preset Zoom In while recording it does just that Magic Zoom Half shutter see Display Trap Focus Silent Picture Bulb timer Movie REC key MENU while recording will clear the screen and force a redraw of ML elements SET in LiveView center AF area the little rectangle Q followed by SET while ISO speed dialog is active go to ISO item in ML menu Q while AF mode dialog is active go to Trap Focus item in ML menu
22. dis played by ML as 1 48 This is not a bug Assumming 1 4000 is native you can use the EV definition to compute all avail able shutter speeds between 30s and 1 8000 1 4000 2 8 k 135 1 8 Not all shutter values are accepted by all cameras in all modes In manual exposure modes photo and video press Q for one time auto shutter speed e When LiveView is active ML uses binary search similar to ISO e When LiveView is off the shutter value is computed with the help of Auto ISO feature from Canon firmware in 1EV steps Aperture 1 2 f 45 0 Adjust aperture Light Adjust OFF ALO HTP Select the light adjustment algorithm e OFF e Auto Lighting Optimizer low standard strong s Highlight Tone Priority PictureStyle Change picture style You can see the effect on LiveView instantly REC PicStyle You can use a different picture style when recording toggled automagically Contrast Saturation Sharpness Adjusts the contrast the saturation and the sharpness in the current picture style Flash AEcomp up to 10 3 EV Flash exposure compensation Warning values lower than 5 may not work Tip you may use 10EV to trigger an external flash without putting light on the scene coming from the onboard flash 30 Focus Trap Focus i Focus Patterns Follow Focus Focus speed Focus delay Focus dir Focus A Rack focus Stack focus i 5x180 SET Adjust Custom AF patterns photo mode only
23. e exposure with the button or from ML menu e The camera will not record sound You can use an external recorder for ex ample Zoom H1 H2 or H4n and sync the sound in post with a clapperboard e You can t play back movies in the camera This setting remains active even if you start the camera with standard firmware until you clear your settings Exposure Lock ON OFF 50D only Locks the exposure in movie mode You can also use the button you don t have to hold it pressed Shutter Button Leave unchanged Block during REC Hold during REC IS 50D only e Leave unchanged obvious e Block during REC blocks the shutter and related AF buttons while record ing In 50D taking pictures while recording would result in ERR99 with this option you can avoid taking pictures while recording by mistake Side effect this will disable image stabilization during recording s Hold during REC IS ML will keep the shutter button pressed half way during recording which will enable image stabilization IS Side effect you need to press the shutter button half way to turn IS off before the camera will let you stop recording Shoot Shoot HDR Bracketing Take a pic every Intervalometer AutoExpodTmLapse LCD Remote Shot Audio RemoteShot level 18 Motion Detect level 8 Silent Slit Pic Bulb Timer N A Mirror Lockup i Clap your hands or Functions for stills shooting some of them work for mo
24. e two images with a diagonal split view The current image will always end up in the top half TimelapsePlay scroll through all your pictures quickly LV button PLAY Default Protect image Customize the Live View button in PLAY mode s Default enter LiveView e Protect image Quick Erase Shortcut for erasing images without confirmation hold SET and press ERASE Be careful 38 Debug Draw palette Screenshot 18 s Spy prop evt mem s p q Don t click me Dim display OFF Turn off display OFF Turn off GlobalDraw OFF n into a 1D Mark Y or it may explode Functions for troubleshooting development and possibly unstable features Some items from this menu may not be available in release builds you can uncomment them from debug c and create a custom autoexec bin Draw palette Tests the 8 bit bitmap palette which is used for video overlays See VRAM Screenshot 10 s Print screen after 10 seconds It it saves a BMP file for the overlays and a 422 file silent picture for the LiveView image The BMP does not contain transparency data You can combine the two files in GIMP or other image editing programs The card LED will blink every second until the screenshot is taken Debug logging ON OFF When enabled the camera stores a log which contains DebugMsg output Press Q to dump the log to a file on the SD card Disabling this setting might save a few CPU cycles See Debugging Magic Lantern p
25. een OFF ClearScreen HalfShutter eview rectilinear image from Samyang Bam fisheye gray LiveView overlays histogram zebras cropmarks spotmeter focus peaking false color Global Draw ON OFF Enable disable drawing extra graphics elements zebra cropmarks histogram waveform false color spotmeter audio meters ML shooting info Tip use this setting to quickly turn them off 13 Histo Wavefm ON Luma RGB for histogram OFF Small Large Fullscreen for waveform Video Canon_T2i_550D_Magic_Lantern_Meters_Tutorial Shows the distribution of image brightness levels with e a histogram plot Luma or RGB toggle with SET e a waveform plot toggle with Q Zebras OFF Luma RGB lo_level hi_level Enable disable zebra stripes which indicate overexposed or underexposed areas Modes s Luma zebras are computed from Y channel only overexposure is red under exposure is blue RGB overexposure zebras are computed from RGB channels underexposure zebras are computed from Y Clipped channels are displayed in the opposite color i e clipped red displayed as cyan underexposed displayed as white Keys s SET toggle between OFF Luma RGB s PLAY change threshold for underexposure blacks s Q change threshold for overexposure whites Brightness values are between 0 and 255 A threshold equal to 0 will disable zebras for underexposure and 255 will disable zebras for overexposure Note when using
26. er level Best audio is obtained by use of a preamp system fed to the camera As a general rule the use of a quiet preamp to send the signal to the camera will result in better the sound recorded in camera Use of a preamped XLR adapter like the JuicedLink CX231 or a field mixer will give superior results You may also use a recorder like Zoom H1 H2 or H4n but since the line out level is much higher than the mic level you will have to turn the output down from your recorder or use a pad cable If you don t use an external preamp the Rode VideoMic PRO has a built in 20dB amp de signed for use with dSLR cameras The Rode VideoMic non pro is known to have low output levels when used with Canon dSLRs without any preamps For more info check out the Canon DSLR Audio thread on dvxuser and AGC Disable Magic Lantern vs Juicedlink on dvinfo Why does the camera take pictures when pressing the shutter half way Trap focus may be active My camera freezes I get ERR70 80 99 I get corrupted files Why e Format your card Some of these problems are caused by filesystem corruption or cheap card readers Always use the safe removal feature before you unplug your card from your computer e Run the stability test from the Debug menu If it fails upgrade Magic Lantern and run the test again e If you still have problems report an issue What about ERR20 when taking pictures This problem is not related to or caused by Magic Lan
27. ervalometer for photos and movies silent pictures without shutter actu ation integration with bracketing Astro and night photography bulb timer for very long exposures up to 8h Info displays focus and DOF info CMOS temperature shutter count clock For strobists flash exposure compensation range up to 5 to 3 EV depends on the camera Power management Turn off display in LiveView mode quickly adjust LCD backlight level Fun stuff slit scan pictures Important notes If you have a bootable SD card and have the BOOTDISK flag set in the camera which the installer does and you do not have an AUTOEXEC BIN file on the card the camera WILL NOT BOOT It will hang and not wake up until the battery is removed If you encounter a locked up camera quickly remove the battery When in doubt remove the battery and reboot And remember that this software can damage or destroy your camera Contents Features Important notes FAQ How do I record for more than 12 minutes o o o ooooooooo oo How do I get exposure times longer than 30 seconds o o ooooooo oo How do I see shutter counter CMOS temperature o o oooooooooo o My camera freezes I get ERR70 80 99 I get corrupted files Why What about ERR20 when taking pictures 2 eee Why feature X doesn t work properly e K e S brna E eee Known issues Key shortcuts PLAY mode shortcuts e ae R bh R ms e e
28. ges just by varying one parameter exposure so you have to choose what s important for you in this picture For lowest flicker meter for midtones choose the 50th percentile i e median Leave some headroom for highlights underexpose a bit If highlights are important meter for them choose 80th percentile for example You will get more flicker shoot RAW to remove it easier in post s The algorithm works best when brightness is close to 50 try not to choose extreme values for it e When you are ready to start press SET 5 Sit back and relax Limits Tips s ISO is chosen between 100 and maximum auto ISO value from Canon menu e Shutter speed is chosen between 1 1000 lower limit and the de lay between two shots minus two seconds upper limit Example for 10 second intervals shutter speed will be between 1 1000 and 8 seconds e Aperture is fixed you can change it manually Don t adjust ISO and shutter before the timelapse they are fully automatic You can use this option with a HDR timelapse In this case when configuring the exposure parameters choose the brightest picture in the HDR sequence the last one Use a ND filter to reduce flicker during daylight Reduce flicker in post You may try VirtualDub with MSU Deflicker plugin free works with Windows and Wine See also Timelapse workflow using free software tutorial The delay between two shots affects how ISO and shutter are chosen
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30. ie mode Movie Photo nnna naaa 36 TENSA CON e aara Se PAGES a Ai ie ee 36 Crop Pactor Display oo ob aaua eed ed ea ra aa 36 eve MENU ERASE ee bk ae ee a e Yee 36 TASPOBE in PhotoMode s gt dR T do d R E hee ae Eee NE RE T Liveview a E II LY Auto ISO M medet cosido ras dara aa RKR N ned After taking a photo QuickReview Hold gt Play onnan aaa LOTO PLATE T 0 oia a eins a Sh a e Rs e Cropmarks PLAY ONOFF 2 cn eb aed eke ee aa eee awd SETSMaig ali LAY o osc oe ke Pa a eae Me ae eee es LY button PLAY Default 7 Protectimage sedo su cas ee ee vs Duck Erase 254045 4h eh eee koe ES OM EEE DE ow ew BE oe oe ME CAMA ERA ROWER a Oe RPE YEAS ERO eae S48 Dra Palate oe ee ete eee ee ee eda eee ga eee ee RRR debe ee aes Carces hO IUS ok soe eek he ERE ESR N R we ew eS N EA O O ONI e Pan ue Pe a Pak e dl el op koe Mies AFD CCE EI oils we See oat eee a ee wal aA ET Ee Grins A alte a ten Se haa ees Pa a a a a a Re eS Half press shutter OFF sticky every second every 200 ms every 20 ms Fee Memory hs pe mema a Ae oe ee ee ee RRR e ERIC 1 o eer ad eaaa aa ana areas ava Seeded bees a Rar Shuker CONN 2 ack tae be a OR PR ee Ete BESS TO fc pr fees ear EER oi atte TE oS eh Be hk oe RN Dim display OFF after X seconds R E R E e R RR R E e Turn off LCD and LV OFF 7 after X seconds ee g aR ee ees Turn off GlobalDraw OFF after X seconds 000002 seus Dave power when REC ONOFF ooe 05 5 oe se he PERS Re ee Pe A
31. ing takes effect only in movie mode Audio level scale is from 40dB to OdB Analog Gain dB Gain applied to both inputs in the analog domain intended as mic type preamp but always preferable to digital gain unless you want different gain or run out of analog L DigitalGain and R DigitalGain dB Digital gain applied separately to the L and R channel 11 AGC ON OFF Enable disable Automatic Gain Control AGC is applied only in digital domain i e it overrides digital gains but you can still adjust analog gain Disable this setting to prevent hiss noise when recording silence Input source Audio input source for recording e internal mic e L int R ext e external stereo s L int R balanced internal mic on Left external mic on Right from both exter nal pins as balanced audio e Auto int ext camera detects if a mic is plugged in Int is dual mono ext is stereo Canon Balanced Mic to Female XLR Cable Pinouts K T E R S I l L P N G E x FEMALE XLR Tip Positive Hot 1 Ground Ring Negative Cold 2 Positive Hot Sleeve Ground 3 Negative Cold Balanced audio allows for very long cable runs without interference Usually balanced mics have three pin XLR connectors and it is very easy to out together an XLR to Canon mic input cable Balanced allows us to use such pro mics with our little Canons and this is a very welcome surprise for audio guys source Mic Po
32. l be available disables x5 zoom e x5x10 both settings available Canon default e Enable zoom in Face Detection mode 36 LV Auto ISO M mode Play Experimental Auto ISO for still photos in LiveView This feature only works in M mode and it will only alter the ISO in 1 EV steps OFF disable this feature Spotmeter meter the image so that spotmeter shows around 50 CenteredHist center the histogram In high contrast scenes the amounts of underexposed and overexposed pixels will be equal HighlightPri highlight priority In low contrast scenes it will expose to the right without overexposing In high contrast scenes it will allow 5x more underexposed pixels than overexposed If this is not possible it will overexpose the highlights NoOverexpose this will avoid overexposure but will underexpose a lot in high contrast scenes For low contrast scenes this is ETTR Expose To The Right Notes This feature is highly experimental and may be counter intuitive at first sight You can fine tune the exposure by adjusting contrast if you shoot RAW For ETTR methods more contrast smaller ISO Both HighlightPri and NoOverexpose can be used for ETTR Expose To The Right The difference is in how they handle the shadows NoOverexpose sim ply ignores them completely You set shutter and aperture ML suggests two ISO values You can choose any of them by holding the shutter pressed halfway ISO is limi
33. l modes See your camera manual for details To get only round ISO values ie 100 160 200 320 400 640 800 1250 1600 2500 3200 6400 12800 and 25600 see ISO selection In manual exposure modes photo and video press Q for one time auto ISO e When LiveView is active ML performs a binary search trying to achieve a good balance between overexposure and underexposure e When LiveView is off ISO is set using the Auto ISO feature from Canon firmware in 1EV steps To compute exact ISO values from 100 to 6400 assumming 1 8 EV steps use this formula 100 2 8_ k 0 48 WhiteBalance 1500 12000 Kelvin white balance On 60D extended range is only available in Movie mode and LiveView For still pictures Kelvin WB will be clamped to the native range i e 2500 10000 In LiveView press Q to auto tune Kelvin WB for the current scene ML will use the center 200x200 pixels rectangle as reference gray WBShift G M Green 0 9 Magenta 0 9 Green Magenta white balance shift Useful for fluorescent lighting Can be auto tuned with Q button WBShift B A Blue 0 9 Amber 0 9 Blue Amber white balance shift 1 unit 5 mireks on Kelvin axis according to this post 29 Shutter 1 24 1 4000 Custom steps for shutter speed in 1 8 EV steps Magic Lantern displays shutter values rounded to 2 significant digits which may be slightly different than values displayed by Canon firmware e g 1 50 is
34. menu item After pressing SET ML will display Focus End Point 0 steps from here This means the end point is now assigned to current focus position At this point you will see the LiveView image and set the start point using the main dial wheel or ZoomIn AF buttons The start point will be always the current focus point which you are changing the end point will remain fixed 32 Rack Focus Triggers the rack focus operation that moves between the start and end focus points After the move is complete pressing again reverses the move e SET rack focus will start after 2 seconds e Q rack focus will start immediately e PLAY ML will automatically record a short clip with the rack focus operation Step by step 1 Pick the end point of rack focus by focusing on it manually or with AF 2 Configure focus parameters step size and delay Different lenses may require different parameters 3 Open the Focus menu go to Focus End Point and press Set to zero it out 4 Pick the start point by focusing on it with the Zoom In Out buttons while the Focus menu is active Make sure the number from Focus End Point is changing as you focus You can fine tune the start focus point with the main dial wheel while LiveView display is active 5 Go to Rack Focus and press SET Q or PLAY to start rack focus 6 To return to the beginning point run rack focus again Tip when LCD Remote Shot is set on Near or Away you can trigger rack
35. nd to prevent the camera from shutting down Technically there s no 12 minute limit There s a 30 minute limit and a 4 GB limit whichever comes first With default bitrate settings the 4 GB limit is reached after around 12 minutes more or less How do I get exposure times longer than 30 seconds You may use s Bulb timer for a single photo s HDR bracketing in manual mode s Bulb ramping for timelapse How do 1 see shutter counter CMOS temperature Look in Debug menu Do I have to adjust ISO shutter aperture WB from ML menu only No you can adjust them both from ML menu or Canon user interface Note custom settings which are not available in standard firmware like Kelvin white balance on Rebel cameras may not be displayed properly by Canon GUL Does ML eat batteries faster or cause overheating Yes and no depending on what features you have enabled For example focus peaking false colors waveform zebras and maybe others are CPU hungry It can even reduce power con sumption by turning off the LCD screen or by letting you change the backlight level quickly See Power saving for details Don t forget that time flies when you re having fun Tip batteries are not expensive however third party models may last less than original Canon batteries See this topic Why the audio is so quiet noisy after disabling AGC You will have to adjust the volume manually use the audio meters to determine the prop
36. o provided feedback reported bugs and supported the Magic Lantern project by donations Also thanks to CHDK team and all the contributors and donors for the 5D2 Magic Lantern Magic Lantern is being developed by independent film makers in our spare time and at risk to our beloved cameras We hope that it saves you time and aggravation on set and we d appreciate your support You can help by donating via PayPal or through equipment donations You can also contact me Alex via email Thanks Donate Features Audio disable AGC and digital filters audio meters manual audio controls selectable input source internal internal external external stereo balanced audio monitoring via USB Exposure helpers zebras false color histogram waveform spotmeter Focus tools focus peaking zoom while recording trap focus rack focus follow focus focus stacking focus graph zoom in Face Detect mode Movie helpers Bitrate control QScale or CBR movie logging Exif like metadata auto restart after buffer overflow or 4 GB limit time remaining display clean LiveView dis play without any overlays change movie position on the mode dial Cropmark images user editable overlays to assist framing and composition Fine control for ISO Shutter Kelvin white balance and other image settings Remote release with LCD face sensor and audio trigger without extra hardware Bracketing exposure bracketing focus stacking Timelapse int
37. o recorded without sound with an external audio track see this topic In photo mode you can combine this option with the self timer may be useful for group or self pictures Be careful this may trigger the shutter from the sounds made by camera like focus beep or liveview switch Motion Detect OFF EXP DIF Experimental motion detection e EXP it only reacts to brightness EXPosure change in the middle of the Live View image Useful for large moving subjects which cause significant change in exposure s DIF it computes the DIFference between last two frames A and B luma chan nel only it is useful for detecting smaller movements which do not change exposure Trigger condition is E Aj Bij gt level Lj Detection time is somewhere between 200 and 300 ms according to DataGhost s speed test it s faster with silent pictures Silent Picture Silent Pic HiRes Slit scan Pic Video 550D T2i Magic Lantern Silent Shooting Mode Tutorial This can take pictures in LiveView mode without moving the mirror When en abled it saves uncompressed YUV422 frames from the LiveView buffer when you press the shutter halfway e Make sure you don t have autofocus assigned to half shutter press put it on or turn it off Modes e Silent Picture simple low resolution Image resolution is usually around 1 or 2 MPix and depends on the current mode zoom or not recording or not and movie resolution For almost FullHD
38. ou can place at most 9 cropmarks on the card An exclamation mark displayed in the menu means there was an error loading the cropmark image Get more cropmarks created by Magic Lantern users from the ML cropmark repository See Cropmarks for how to create custom cropmarks Tip use Debug gt Screenshot to get a bitmap with the correct palette 15 Ghost image ON OFF Shows a transparent overlay which can be created from any image in Play mode Usage e To select the image go to Play mode and press the LiveView button e Move the ghost image in LiveView with arrow keys center or hide it with SET Defishing ON OFF Preview the rectified defished image from Samyang 8mm fisheye lens using rec tilinear projection Tip in PLAY mode it s colored Defishing is computed with a LUT from LiveView image buffer It is possible to create LUT files for any other lens or projection by defishing vram xy png with your favorite defishing software and then running vram defish 1ut m to get the LUT file All the required files are found in the ML source tree Project files PTO for nona hugin are provided for both rectilinear and Panini projections Spotmeter OFF Percent IRE Measure brightness in the center of the frame and display it as a percentage or IRE value Keys e SET enable disable spotmeter e Q change measurement unit Percent 0 100 IRE 1 101 formula used by AJ which maps 0 255 brightnes
39. ound the recording dot Movie Restart ON OFF While this setting is on movie recording will restart automatically unless stopped by you There will be a few seconds skipped during restarting Movie logging ON OFF If this setting is ON Magic Lantern will write out a metadata file for the each movie to MVI_1234 L0G numbered after the movie The log file contains lens and ex posure info as well as a timestamp every time any of the parameters is changed during recording Log files are placed in the same folder as the movies DCIM 100CANON 101CANON etc Tip you can rename LOG files to CSV and import them in MS Excel MovieModeRemap A DEP CA C Changes movie position on the mode dial You can swap movie mode with either A DEP CA or C Alternative press ISO and then press LV 20 Movie REC key Default HalfShutter This option enables you to start stop movie recording by half pressing the shutter button Shutter Lock ON OFF This option locks the shutter value in movie mode you will be able to change it only from ML menu REC STBY notify Custom notifications for recording or standby Red Crossout highly recommended if you forget to press record e Message it shows STBY or REC e Beeps it will beep when recording starts or stops DigitalZoom Shortcut 1x 3x 3x 10x On 600D T3i this lets you customize the behavior of DISP Zoom In Zoom Out shortcut key in movie mode e 1x 3x toggle bet
40. ow these settings are saved Config AutoSave ON OFF If enabled settings are saved automatically to magic cfg whenever you change a setting in ML menu Config saving process will take place as soon as you close the menu Save config now Saves ML settings to magic cfg Delete config file Deletes magic cfg which will restore ML default settings at next boot Note This item will disable Config AutoSave for the current session in order to make sure the config file won t be re created when you close the menu 41 DISP presets 1 4 This feature lets you use up to 4 display presets for the settings in the LiveV menu On the top bar you will see DISP 0 1 2 or 3 Each of those is a preset for the settings in LiveV menu So you can for example configure DISP 1 with false colors DISP 2 with zebras and focus peaking and DISP 3 with clear display This menu item sets the maximum number of available DISP presets To disable this feature set the number of presets to 1 To change the presets press e on 550D 500D Flash button in Movie mode or ISO followed by DISP in all modes e on 60D the Metering button e on 600D the DISP button or ISO followed by INFO Extra info displays Main shooting screen outside Live View Clock bottom of screen ISO value in finer increments above Canon s ISO display Trap Focus status near MF icon Kelvin temperature in the white balance box WB shift values for BA
41. rn the setting off HDIF looks at difference between adjacent pixels Detects horizontal edges only It is fooled by high contrast out of focus edges MORF looks for fine detail lost by morphological opening and closing which is a kind of blurring It handles high contrast OOF edges well but is very sensitive to ISO noise Q adjust percentile threshold between 0 1 and 5 PLAY select color mode one of R G B C M Y a single color cci color coding 1 show edge detection threshold as color a single color for the entire frame warmer higher cc2 color coding 2 show edge strength as color for every pixel Magic Zoom OFF Zrec Zr F ALW Small Med Large AFF NW NE SE SW Video Magic_Lantern_Tip_1_Magic_Zoom This function displays a zoom box for focus assist It is similar to Magic Circles from AJ builds but here it s square When ML believes you have achieved perfect focus Magic Zoom borders will be come green Modes change with SET OFF Zrec triggered by Zoom In button pressed either while recording or while the LCD sensor is covered Zr F triggered by Zoom In button while recording and also by rotating the focus ring only on lenses which report focus distance or if you use follow focus rack focus triggered by Zoom In button overrides Canon s default zoom modes To bypass magic zoom cover the LCD sensor or press both zoom buttons at the same time ALW always on unless
42. s distance Hyperfocal The hyperfocal distance is the point of focus where everything from half that dis tance to infinity falls within the depth of field This is the largest depth of field possible for the current f number DOF Near The nearest distance in which objects appear in focus DOF Far The farthest distance in which objects appear in focus Tweaks 20 49 DISP B RAH L Land T 158 1314 Miscellanous settings Tw Exposure Simulation AF frame display LCD Sensor Shortcuts Auto BurstPicQuality After taking a photo Fast All modes Zoom in PLAY mode Show cropmarks in ISO selection Crop Factor Display r x5x1B i LiveView Zoom Display the 35mm equiv focal length in LVGain NightVision up to 6EV eak Auto ON AutoHide ON OFF QuickReview 188x 168x ON 35mm eq cluding crop factor This feature lets you frame the image in extremely dark places or with strong ND or infrared filters It works by increasing the digital gain applied to LiveView image The gain is not applied to pictures but it is applied to videos You can also use this feature to record at ISO higher than 6400 up to ISO 409600 e To use night vision in movie mode first you need to enable Auto ISO e Since the scene is very dark camera should select ISO 6400 34 e To get the equivalent of ISO 25600 for example you need to increase display gain by 2EV DOF Preview Normal Sticky
43. s levels to approx 1 101 IRE IRE 0 108 formula proposed by Piers which maps 16 235 brightness lev els to 7 5 100 IRE Note when using low contrast picture styles like Marvels Cine or Superflat the brightness might not reach the extreme values even under strong under over exposure This is OK ClearScreen OFF HalfShutter WhenlIdle Clear bitmap overlays from LiveView display s HalfShutter Hold the shutter half pressed or the button or DOF preview for around 1 second and this will clear all the overlays from the Live View display audio zebra crops shutter speeds It allows you to compose the picture without any extra distractions This works best when autofocus is assigned to the button from Custom Functions set Shutter AE lock button AE lock AF 16 Whenldle In this mode all the overlays are erased from the screen 100 clean display when the camera is idle The overlays zebras amp various status displays will be back when you press the Q button or when you press the shutter half way they will disappear again the the camera returns to idle Tip this feature may be useful with External Recorders since it removes the focus box and other graphics from the display Focus Peak OFF HDIF MOREF threshold color_mode Video Magic_Lantern_Focus_Assist_Feature_on_550D Experimental focus peaking see Focus Assist and discussion thread SET toggle beteween available algorithms or tu
44. t a local maxima on the focus graph 43 Power saving Magic Lantern can help you maximize battery life while shooting which also results in re duced overheat If you enable many CPU intensive functions for LiveV menu the battery will drain a bit faster To save power you may e Turn off display in LiveView mode s Dim the display when idle e Turn off Global Draw when idle e Quickly adjust LCD backlight level Power consumption in movie mode for Canon 550D idle 24p approximate figures derived from this test Item Current approx Camera body without lens LCD off 360 mA Lens Tamron 17 50 2 8 20 mA LCD backlight at level 1 40 mA LCD backlight at level 7 100 mA Magic Lantern with GlobalDraw off around 10 mA Zebras around 15 mA Focus peaking maybe 25 mA not tested NTSC PAL Mode Current Mode Current 1080 30p 480 mA 1080 25p 450 mA 1080 24p 440 mA 1080 24p 440 mA 720 60p 520 mA 720 50p 490 mA 480 60p 520 mA 480 50p 490 mA crop 60p 430 mA crop 50p 420 mA Power consumption varies with the frame rate The table above shows the difference between video modes The test was done on a 550d with ML body cap only movie standby lcd bright ness 4 default settings i e no magic cfg at startup Hidden settings The configuration file MAGIC CFG lets you tweak various hidden settings using a simple text editor Notepad gedit vi and is also used to save Magic Lantern configuration from the GUI menu
45. ted to full stops 1 EV This you the best possible dynamic range but causes flicker Flickering between two ISO values is a feature It allows you to fine tune the result on the fly Learn to use it Only the luma Y channel is checked for overexposure Individual channels R G or B may still be overexposed without any warning Adjust your white balance properly to avoid this It s too slow for action scenes it should work for landscapes To override this method temporarily just change the ISO and hold the shutter pressed halfway Features for Playback mode After taking a photo QuickReview Hold gt Play 37 Image review behavior e QuickReview just like in standard firmware e Hold gt Play if you set Image Review Hold in Canon menu it will go to PLAY mode instead This allows you to zoom in as soon as you take the picture without having to press PLAY Zoom in PLAY mode Increase the speed of zoom function in PLAY mode e Normal just like in standard firmware e Fast zoom on steroids e Fast 100 first ZoomIn press will zoom to 100 Cropmarks PLAY ON OFF Enables cropmarks in Playback mode SET MainDial PLAY 1 40 4 5 SG 100 1235 100 1236 When you hold SET and turn MainDial the camera may e Play 422 display silent pictures from DCIM 100CANON low res only S ExposureFusion combine two or more images useful for previewing HDR images or multiple exposures e CompareImages compar
46. ter but ton Continuous autofocus photo mode Set AF to servo mode and this option to sticky Exposure lock in movie mode Set focus to manual or back button and make half shutter sticky Free Memory Displays the amount of available RAM EFIC temperature Displays the internal EFIC temperature in raw units Shutter Count Displays the number of shutter actuations Powersave Dim display OFF after X seconds In LiveView if the camera is idle Magic Lantern will reduce the LCD backlight level to minimum in order to save power 40 Turn off LCD and LV OFF after X seconds In LiveView if the camera is idle Magic Lantern will turn off the built in LCD display and pause LiveView turn off the sensor in order to save power If the camera is recording or motion detection is active only display will be turned off Note you cannot wake up the camera by pressing the shutter half way You have to press some other button for example SET Turn off GlobalDraw OFF after X seconds In LiveView if the camera is idle Magic Lantern will turn off Global Draw in order to save power Save power when REC ON OFF If enabled camera will save power during recording Config Config AutoSave ON Save config now Delete config file DISP profiles E 2 re ML default settings Restart needed Magic Lantern saves its settings in a configuration file named magic cfg This menu lets you customize h
47. tern You will get this error when your shutter mechanism no longer works properly Contact your Canon service center Consider entering your shutter count in the Camera Shutter Life Database Why feature X doesn t work properly e Read the manual In many cases you will find the solution s Try upgrading to the latest build In some cases downgrading to an earlier build will also help e Search the Vimeo ML user group the issue tracker and the mailing list e If you still have problems report an issue if you ve found a bug or ask on the forums Known issues First second of recorded audio may be very loud e Sometimes rack amp stack focus simply refuse to work and you need to restart your cam era s SD monitors are NOT supported Image format is not YUV422 unlike with built in LCD display and HDMI Not all ML features are available on all compatible cameras go to Unified Features to see what works on each camera Key shortcuts PLAY mode shortcuts e Q 550D UNLOCK 60D DISP 600D or FUNC 50D show exposure tools zebra false color histogram waveform spotmeter and cropmarks as configured from LiveV menu e LV create a transparent overlay from current image when Ghost Image is active You can use it for panoramas or for repeating shots e SET Main Dial Wheel in PLAY mode see SET MainDial LCD sensor shortcuts This feature is only available on 550D and 500D LCD sensor can be use
48. too but the pattern won t be displayed on the screen This feature was ported from 400plus Follow Focus OFF Arrows LCD sensor Very simple follow focus like a rack focus controlled manually e Arrows you will be able to focus with the arrow keys You can reverse the focus direction with Q and PLAY s LCD Sensor on 550D focus by placing your hand near the LCD sensor avoid ing shake To use this you also need to disable LCD Remote Shot and enable SensorShortcuts Recommended focus step settings e Focus StepSize 1 or 2 e Focus StepDelay small values without Wait flag e If the motion is not smooth try larger delays 100ms Focus StepSize Small Medium Large Step size for one focus command as used by EOS Utility Focus StepDelay Wait 10 640 ms Delay between two successive focus commands e If Wait is not active ML will only wait a for fixed delay before sending next focus command This will reduce stutter but may affect rack focus accuracy This setting is recommended if you only use follow focus e If Wait is active ML will wait until each focus command is completed and then it will wait for a fixed delay as configured here This will increase rack focus accuracy but may cause stutter with certain lenses Focus End Point This is end point of rack focus X focus steps from the start point 1 6 from current focus point First you have to set the end point Focus the lens then press SET on this
49. ut a lot of details OScale will not go further than 16 and bitrate will be lower than requested As soon as frame com plexity increases the bitrate will increase too and video may stop recording In this case bitrate meter will be displayed in red You can t change this setting during recording A red X means Magic Lantern did not make any changes to bitrate settings See Bit rate page for details BuffWarnLevel 30 100 If buffer usage gets higher than this value ML will display the buffer indicator in red and will pause all CPU intensive graphics almost everything from LiveV menu which will allow movie recording tasks to use all available CPU power in order to avoid a possible buffer overflow 19 Time Indicator OFF Elapsed Remain Card Remain 4GB When recording a movie ML will display a small time counter in the upper right corner which can be Elapsed duration of the current clip S Remain Card estimated amount of recording time remaining on the card e Remain 4GB estimated amount of recording time until reaching 4GB or until filling the card whichever comes first Unlike Canon s timer which assumes constant bitrate ML timer assumes variable bitrate and works even if OScale is enabled However due to variations in bitrate the estimated value will fluctuate a lot and this is normal Bitrate Info ON OFF Display bitrate info instant bitrate average bitrate and instant QScale factor ar
50. vies too HDR Bracket AE Bracketing for HDR images and timelapses Select number of images with SET and step size with PLAY To turn this off quickly press Q In M mode this function does shutter bracketing In the other modes it does expo sure compensation bracketing HDR images can be taken with e ML remote triggers LCD face sensor amp audio trigger e MLintervalometer for HDR timelapse e Press the shutter In this case the first image will have the middle exposure without EV compensation and the 2 second self timer will be used Also this mode only works with 3 images or more For best results either use manual focus or assign autofocus to button To preview HDR images in camera set SET MainDial ExposureFusion from Tweaks menu then go to playback mode hold SET and turn the main dial wheel Magic Lantern computes a naive weighted sum in YUV colorspace which is fast but im age quality is low The algorithm used by Enfuse will yield much better results For each HDR picture set Magic Lantern also writes a bash script for stacking the exposures with enfuse version 4 x The scripts are stored in DCIM CANON and are named after the first picture in set e g if the HDR sequence is created from IMG_1001 JPG IMG_1005 JPG the HDR script will be named HDR_1001 SH and the resulting HDR image will be saved as HDR_1001 JPG For more info on enfuse and exposure fusion check this article Exposure Fusion
51. ween 1x and 3x digital zoom modes FullHD e 3x 10x default Canon setting change digital zoom value between 3x and 10x Note by default Magic Lantern disables digital zoom values greater than 3x in order to avoid image quality degradation Force Live View OFF Start amp CPU lenses Always Force LiveView in Movie mode bypass the dialog saying Press LV button to activate movie shooting e Always force LiveView even if you use an unchipped lens or no lens at all Be careful you may get dust on the sensor while changing lenses e Start amp CPU lenses it will force LiveView at startup regardless of the lens used After this it will only bypass the dialog when a chipped lens is attached i e it will enter LiveView as soon as you attach a chipped lens Force HDMI VGA ON OFF This option will force a low resolution mode on HDMI displays 720x480 which avoids black screen when you start stop recording Movie Record ON OFF 50D only 21 Enable movie recording on 50D 1920x1080 30fps without sound To start record ing go to LiveView P Tv Av M and press SET WARNING Canon 50D was NOT designed to record movies Keep in mind e This feature was not thoroughly tested and may be unstable e Always disable movie recording when you don t use it e Battery will drain quickly when recording movies also the camera may over heat Limitations e There are no manual exposure controls but you can lock th
52. wer ON OFF This is required for internal mic and certain types of external mics but it reduces input impedance See AK4646 datasheet p 31 and the Mic power control thread s ON input impedance is 2 kQ e OFF input impedance is 30 kO This setting is always ON when input source is either internal micorL int R ext 12 Monitoring USB ON OFF Video Monitor_Realtime_T2i_550D_Audio_While_You_Record Audio monitoring with headphones via USB port This feature is not available on 600D T3i To use audio monitoring you need a special cable e your Canon USB RCA cable with a RCA 3 5mm jack adapter e a dedicated cable from Sescom e or you may solder it yourself you will have to cut the USB RCA cable Warning mobile phone cables will not work even if the connector looks similar it s not identical You must use the original cable which came with your camera For details see Audio monitoring HOWTO on Vimeo group Output volume dB Volume for audio monitoring It does not have effect on the internal camera speaker For best results you should a pair of low impedance headphones for example Audio Technica ATH M50 38 ohms With high impedance headphones you may have to use a headphone amplifier like FiiO E5 LiveV Global Draw Histo Wavefm RGB Large zebras RGB 1 245 False Color OFF Cropmks 6 6 OFF Ghost Image OFF Live Defish OFF Spotmeter Percent Focus Peak OFF Magic Zoom OFF Split Scr
53. you use the 5x 10x zoom from Canon 17 Size magnification change with PLAY e Small 150x150 e Medium 250x200 e Large 500x300 s Small X2 small with x2 magnification e Med X2 medium with x2 magnification Positions change with Q e AFF moves with the AF frame the little rectangle e NW NE SE SW the zoom overlay is placed in one of the 4 corners The zoomed area is still linked to the AF frame Magnification linear e while recording FullHD around 2 4x e while not recording around 1 5x e x2 setting doubles the magnification but it does not add any extra detail just doubles the pixels It may be easier to see though Notes e Magic Zoom does not work in video modes other than 1080p Full HD e On HDMI displays it only works well in VGA mode It does not work on SD RCA displays e Zebras focus peaking and false color are disabled automatically when the zoom overlay is active e Half pressing the shutter will hide the zoom overlay Split Screen ON OFF zerocross When the image is out of focus Magic Zoom window looks similar to a split focus ing screen commonly used in old film cameras This is just an alternate display for focus graph It can t detect whether you are focusing too far or too close and the display is only accurate a few seconds after you turn the focus ring and cross the perfect focus point Zerocross option will reverse the split direction whenever you achieve perfect fo cus
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