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Dude, read the article linked in OP

I wasn't commenting on the story but on your logic.

...End of story here, let's move on.

Unless you're a mod and a rule has been broken, that isn't really for you to say, is it? In fact, it seems both rude and defensive. Someone has disagreed with you: you can either reply or not. What you can't do - at least with good manners or any hope of getting a positive result - is tell the person who disagrees with you to stop talking.

To me this video looks strange - no contrast, pretty dark, kind of blurry.  Why?

To get a dream-like look. Or at least that was the effect for me.

Also "kind of dark" is an oversimplification: the background was often dark but the figure generally wasn't. This drew attention to the figure.

[when the camera is shooting in 1080]

yup! haven't heard of any monitor issues as long as your using the 1080 / mcm rewire mode.

Just remember to get a good sd card and your set!

Ok... So having researched this, what you are saying is that those monitors only work when the camera is shooting in 1080 - aka Movie Crop Mode. Doesn't this mean

1. Very short shooting times?

2. Aliasing problems? Because the "anamorphic" modes that avoid these problems aren't 1080

...So in fact the value of a monitor with the M shooting raw isn't high? (This is based on

https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=9741.msg224538;topicseen#msg224538)

Your editing is superb.

yup! haven't heard of any monitor issues as long as your using the 1080 / mcm rewire mode.

Just remember to get a good sd card and your set!

Thanks! For sd cards, I'm planning on using Sandisk Extreme Pro 95MB/s.

I *think* - based on reading comments in Zeek's videos - that the current situation is that any monitor with 1080p should be reasonably expected to work?

And that the monitor will show ML's focus peaking and false color, etc?

I think you've become trapped in a bad logic loop:

- You're saying that it you tell the camera what aperture you want to use it isn't running in full auto

- And you're complaining that in full auto it won't want to know what aperture you want to use

No. If you've decided what aperture you want to use for aesthetic reasons, tell the camera and it works out ALL the technical details, that's full automation. It's not "program mode" but it is fully automatic - just like if you set cruise control on a car and let the car decide what gear to use and how much gas to feed the engine. "Auto" does not equal "reads the users mind." It simply means the mechanism takes ALL the responsibility for working out the details required to get the end result that the user has specified. In the case of the camera, the user no longer has to understand even what aperture is: he simply has a dial he adjusts to get the dof he wants.

I think it's preposterous to say that a camera operated by someone who doesn't what the exposure triangle is - or even what aperture really is other than "blur" - isn't setting exposure automatically. Because the alternative is that the user is doing it, and this user potentially doesn't even know that there are good or bad exposures. You could paint over the aperture numbers and just write "Blur dial" on the aperture ring - that's how the users is operating the camera.

Or to given another example, when self-driving cars arrived, no one is going to say that they're not fully automatic because you have to tell them where to go, or whether you want to take the fast route or the scenic route...

[If you're writing a guide shouldn't it be stopping questions being asked? If a guide is created that creates questions wouldn't that be the opposite of a guide, some sort of ediug or something.]

If you're writing a guide shouldn't it be stopping questions being asked? If a guide is created that creates questions wouldn't that be the opposite of a guide, some sort of ediug or something.

In practice, very often not:

- A guide that says "Here are the answers if you're shooting with ML" would tend to reduce questions, yes

But

- A guide that says "Here are the answers if you want to shoot better video and I'm illustrating those answers with ML" might not - because it might attract people who wouldn't use ML otherwise. In fact, that's almost the point of what I want to do. I want people interested in shooting narrative and documentary for the first time to be aware of tools that might help them, and at the moment ML doesn't seem to be something these people know exists.

If there are no objections in a week or so then I'll start and put a link here.

More specifically, I'd like to write a set of notes for new shooters explaining the principles of shooting video, and I'd like to refer to Magic Lantern and especially the M, because it's so cheap, to do that. So it's a guide that would say "Hey, you want to shoot video, you need to get your exposure right. Here's how the spot meter and zebra will let you adjust your camera settings and NDs, here's how false color will let you relight the scene."

I'm very lazy, so as much as possible I'd try to rely on links to existing sources and just provide a structure for people to follow.

What I'm wondering is

1. Do the key people here think this is a good idea? If the guide was popular, it might cause an influx of people, a minority of who would asking irritating questions instead RTFM. These people can be a real drag for any community

2. Is anyone willing to proofread, make suggestions

Don't think this will be the case. At least not for professional photographers, because the settings are changed not just to get good exposure, but also to create the artistic effect you want. How would the camera know that you want shallow DOF even if you're in daylight?

It's not hard: you simply tell the camera. The way it works on a Fuji for example is you select the aperture you want on the lens and set shutter speed and iso to auto. And, yes, a lot of pros do shoot that way. Most famously, *the* fashion photographer of the C20th -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWmCjrTIq9E

..Juergen Teller and Daido Moriyama normally use automated compact cameras in fact.