I do a lot of macro focus stacking using Magic Lantern with my Canon T5i. I use strobes, so I need a way to trigger them. Because of Canon's limitation on 3rd party flashes in Live View, I'm not able to my hot shoe RF trigger or PC sync adapter. Optical triggering from the on-board flash doesn't work well because I don't have line-of-sight with the optical sensors of my strobes. My workaround is to bounce the on-board flash to an optically triggered speedlight which then triggers the strobes.
I previously owned a Canon T2i and was able to use the Magic Lantern 3rd party flash in Live View "hack." I know this option is not part of the T5i Magic Lantern build. Is there any hope in revisiting this in the future? Can anyone provide a build that has this option enabled?
As much as I love my Canon T5i, it's such a big limitation that I'm considering buying a used Canon 60D/70D/7D which has the ability to disable silent shooting in Live View (supposedly fixes this problem.)
UPDATE
I pulled out my old Canon T2i that I'm selling and tried focus stacking using ML with the the 3rd party flash in LV option enabled. It doesn't work with focus stacking.
I ended up downloading a trial version of Helicon Remote for Windows connected to my Canon T5i via USB. It does exactly what I need for focus stacking. It goes into LV between focus steps and gets out of LV at each focus step to take the picture. The flash works the same as when I'm taking pictures outside of LV. In my case, it's a shoe-mounted generic radio trigger connected to studio strobes. No need to use optical triggers.
Maybe this function can be added to the ML focus stacking routine in the future?
I previously owned a Canon T2i and was able to use the Magic Lantern 3rd party flash in Live View "hack." I know this option is not part of the T5i Magic Lantern build. Is there any hope in revisiting this in the future? Can anyone provide a build that has this option enabled?
As much as I love my Canon T5i, it's such a big limitation that I'm considering buying a used Canon 60D/70D/7D which has the ability to disable silent shooting in Live View (supposedly fixes this problem.)
UPDATE
I pulled out my old Canon T2i that I'm selling and tried focus stacking using ML with the the 3rd party flash in LV option enabled. It doesn't work with focus stacking.
I ended up downloading a trial version of Helicon Remote for Windows connected to my Canon T5i via USB. It does exactly what I need for focus stacking. It goes into LV between focus steps and gets out of LV at each focus step to take the picture. The flash works the same as when I'm taking pictures outside of LV. In my case, it's a shoe-mounted generic radio trigger connected to studio strobes. No need to use optical triggers.
Maybe this function can be added to the ML focus stacking routine in the future?