Mirror Lock-up

Started by garry23, November 16, 2017, 06:02:42 PM

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garry23

Currently we can control Mirror lock-up in two ways.

Always on responds as per Canon, i.e. Two shutter presses, with the first 'just' moving the mirror.

The second being a delay when using the intervalometer.

Some other cameras allow the shooter to select a delay between the mirror going up and the shutter activating; thus reducing mirror vibration issues when not in LV mode. 

So a thought. Can we introduce a user selectable delay in the ML mirror menu, say in 1/10 sec up to 1sec.

And/or bring in mirror control in Lua, unless it's there and I've missed it. My idea being, via the shutter property and/or keypress event, control the mirror and shutter through Lua.

Walter Schulz

Quote from: garry23 on November 16, 2017, 06:02:42 PM
Currently we can control Mirror lock-up in two ways.
Always on responds as per Canon, i.e. Two shutter presses, with the first 'just' moving the mirror.

You forgot Canon's timer action. Then you need only one shutter press, mirror goes up and after 2 or 10 seconds shutter is triggered.

garry23

I was aware of that, but thinking of reducing the delay and controlling the mirror and shutter with one press.

Also see here : https://petapixel.com/2017/11/16/combat-mirror-shock-using-cameras-mirror-delay/

a1ex

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=3236

It's not enabled on recent models; uncomment FEATURE_MLU_HANDHELD in features.h, try and report. I did not find it effective on 5D3 and had better luck with its built-in silent mode (but it's been years since I've tried).

garry23

@a1ex

Great. I'll have retry compiling again ;-)

Cheers

Garry

garry23

@a1ex

Sorry, I'm being thick. I can't find FEATURE_MLU_HANDHELD in features.h