Thursday, May 22, 2014

Canon SX50HS Stuff

Crazyfingers settings

C1 C2 Comment
1 AF Frame Flexzone Flexzone This is what Sets the focus to the center focus square by default. User can shift this around but I have not tried. With maz zoom at 2x, knowing how to do this could be helpful 
2 Digital Zoom Off Off
3 AF-Point Zoom – On _ This gives a magnified view of the focus point. It focuses only once.
4 OnServo AF Off on This and below somehow related and camera constantly tries to optimise focus until shutter is pressed. 
5 Continuous AF Off on
6 AF Assist Beam Off Off
7 MF Point Zoom Off Off
8 Safety MF Off Off
9 Flast Control -
10 ISO Austo Settings
11  High ISO NR Standard Standard Standard
12 Spot AE Point – AF Point AF Point AF Point Exposure uses the focus point only instead of the whole scene
13 Movie Ausio -
14 Review – Quick Quick Quick
15 Review Info Blank
16 Blink Detection Off Off
17 Custom Display - -
18 Reverse Display
19 IS Settings Continuous 1 Continuous 1
20 Display area Small Small
21 Date stamp off Off Off
22 Face ID settings
23 Set Shortcut Button T T T

http://pro.myphotopipe.com/index.cfm?d=myphotopipe

Good Youtube tutorial at Fat Dragon 100

I am considering a Nikon D5300 rig and here is a crazy good review thread from Amazon.

Parts:
Canon E67U 67mm Snap On Lens Cap 
Lensmate 58mm adapter
Hoya 58mm Moose Peterson Warming Circular Polarizer Filter considering this?

CHDK
Builds http://mighty-hoernsche.de/ (scroll to bottom)
ACID to check firmware and automate download (download may not work).
Time lapse plugin for LR
Time Lapse remote shutter
Wireless remote shutter

Curl, Wget, Winget & Powershell Install or Download Commands

After the mess I made in previous posts this summary might be useful.     Thanks PatchMyPC, the great and powerful program downloader and up...