Magic Lantern ---- Not the standard question

[Tintin124]

Right this is not a question whether its worth using.

I have installed it just to test out what it could do and whether I may find it useful for my macro work both video and photography

But something that doesn't seem to be explained in the user guide is what Mode to have the camera set in. For photography side.

For instance ETTR do you set the camera to M mode or P mode? Can you use Av Tv settings?

Also do most functions only work if you use live mode such as the focus one? Not a live view fan really.

 

[dancook]

Only in manual do you have the ability to change aperture, iso and shutter speed.
ETTR needs to have control over shutter speed and ISO when shutter speed reaches the minimum amount, you want control over aperture for DOF.
So I'm pretty sure it'll require manual mode, I have used it before - but a while ago, I suspect I was using it manual.

Depends what functions you mean, all the assists like superzoom, zebras, focus peaking are going to need liveview. Would be nice if our canon's had an EVF to use them with.

 

[Tintin124]

Only in manual do you have the ability to change aperture, iso and shutter speed.
ETTR needs to have control over shutter speed and ISO when shutter speed reaches the minimum amount, you want control over aperture for DOF.
So I'm pretty sure it'll require manual mode, I have used it before - but a while ago, I suspect I was using it manual.

Depends what functions you mean, all the assists like superzoom, zebras, focus peaking are going to need liveview. Would be nice if our canon's had an EVF to use them with.

Cheers Dan... as it doesn't do Av then maybe Av mode would work.

Does ISO need to be set to auto or can you have one set and Magic lantern overrides it... for instance the ISO settings on my camera are pretty basic 100 200 400 etc but with Magic lantern can set ISO 160 camera shows 200 but I'm guessing it is actually using 160 is this correct or just nuts?

 

[dancook]

Magic lantern overrides the settings, with ML you can use settings not normally available using the default camera settings - like ISO 160 instead of 200

 

[Tintin124]

Magic lantern overrides the settings, with ML you can use settings not normally available using the default camera settings - like ISO 160 instead of 200

Ok cool... thanks for your help Dan, some of these things seem to defy my logic on how something should work. I'm looking currently at focus stacking as this is the most likely setting used and maybe follow focus and focus peak.