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

Run Fido Script

Run PowerShell as Admin Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope Process iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadStri...