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Showcasing Magic Lantern => Share Your Videos => Topic started by: v1rt on July 19, 2015, 05:19:16 PM

Title: My Canon 50D captured this stunning lightning show
Post by: v1rt on July 19, 2015, 05:19:16 PM
My Canon 50D is also hacked with ML though I didn't use it this time because the battery only lasts for less than an hour. I used a device which I built. It also controls the motorized dolly where my 50D was mounted. Anyways, here are the pictures in timelapse format. I hope you'll enjoy it! :)

This was shot evening of July 17 here in McHenry County, IL. It took close to 2.5 hours and 742 pictures. I would love to find an open field here and do the same. Looks like my device is ready!

Title: Re: My Canon 50D captured this stunning lightning show
Post by: mitch_p2 on July 20, 2015, 05:59:05 AM
Awesome!!
Title: Re: My Canon 50D captured this stunning lightning show
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on July 20, 2015, 07:22:56 AM
Great stuff for such a small lovely workhorse and Thanks for sharing @v1rt!
Title: Re: My Canon 50D captured this stunning lightning show
Post by: v1rt on July 21, 2015, 09:06:17 AM
Thank you mitch_p2 and DeafEyeJedi! :)

I actually posted another one and it's longer. I cropped the pictures so we can see the lightning more closer. Check it out

Title: My Canon 50D captured this stunning lightning show
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on July 21, 2015, 09:18:30 AM
Sweet stuff -- care to share your settings within ML as well as Post workflow?
Title: Re: My Canon 50D captured this stunning lightning show
Post by: v1rt on July 21, 2015, 09:24:03 AM
I wrote above that I didn't use ML due to the battery capacity limitation when using ML. Here are my settings though

ISO 400
10-12 seconds shutter time
number of seconds before it takes another shot - 1 sec
Tamron 11mm @ f2.8 lens
Manual
Raw
Cloudy for white balance since AWB will affect the color change. However, I changed the white balance in post processing

That's all I did
Title: Re: My Canon 50D captured this stunning lightning show
Post by: v1rt on July 21, 2015, 09:26:56 AM
For the post processing, I created a video on how I post process mine. It's brutal since I don't have those expensive video editors. I only use command line specifically ffmpeg tool.

Here is the video. I did my best to explain how I did it.