You can keep adjusting your starting focus point- that’s not set in memory. Now you can use your arrows or scroll wheel to change your STARTING focus. Find your mark on where you want the lens to END, then press SET. This lets you set the end point of a rack focus. You can trigger the rack focus either using the arrows. I can see you this could be useful in a dialogue two-shot where you are going back and forth, but you should familiarize yourself with this setup very well. Press PLAY again and you return to your FIRST position. When you want to rack focus- press PLAY and focus will shift to the SECOND position. Then rack focus manually to your FIRST POSITION. To rack focus while recording- yes, you must be recording- focus on what you want your SECOND POSITION to be and press MENU. ML recommends focus step sizes of 1 or 2 with a small value for the step delay, increasing step delays if the motion is not as smooth as you like. Yes, the stepper motors have gotten better, but even with magic lantern, the process of setting and timing out your rack focus points takes more time than it is worth. Unless you have a very expensive motion control system, you should be focusing manually, with your hands on a follow focus. In reality, it is more tedious and not as effective.
This is one of those features that I am sure sounded like the future of filmmaking in the drawing room. If you want to see what you have as your Focus Selection, press ZOOM IN twice. As you look through the viewfinder, change the selected arrangement using your arrow keys and press “SET” when you are done. You have to have your camera in any photo mode with the live view turned off. If you are using autofocus, or if you have enabled trap focus, you can customize the focus patterns in your camera. HOLD AF BUTTON- In this mode, you hold whatever you have designated as your AF button (Either half-shutter, or your back-focus button) to activate this setting.ĬONTINUOUS- This digitally “presses” the AF button for you all the time so that the camera automatically takes a picture as soon as it gets missile lock. It’s rarely more than a few bucks more, and its better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. My suggestion: Get the Focus Confirmation models of adapters. You need to have an adapter with a Focus Confirmation chip for it to work, or else you need to be in Live View mode.
#Trap focus magic lantern manual
If you are using an older vintage lens- or a lens that is manual focus only- this can help speed up your shooting. I prefer to leave the autofocus features alone, but if you practice with the workflow, you could use it to speed things up on your shoot.
There are a lot of very cool tricks you can do in the focus panel.