Hello.
First, thanks for all you work.
I spend last days trying to use silent.mo to make some timelapses.
I have a very few C notions, and I couldn’t really help with coding.
I’m really interested into improving this feature, so I would like to help in any way.
I searched on the forum and I saw that you appreciate complex feedbacks with a lot of info on your code’s behavior.
I have decided to try to do my best here, if I can help more in any way, don’t hesitate to ask for it, I will keep an eye on this topic.
-I used the 7D latest build from the development branch.
-I took DNGs in full raw format. It does not work with S and M format.
-Focus has to be made before shooting
-You can’t do silent pic from EOS utility (it just takes normal pics)
-You can pictures with:
Half shutter
Af On button
Also with AF off button (set on remember exposure button)
And even with aperture button.
-Exposure is always a bit higher than on the preview, even with expo override and exp sim.
-So you can’t focus when silent.mo is activated. It would be great to be able to focus with AF on button.
-I noticed no difference in times for taking the pictures, with only silent.mo or all modules activated.
-Saving the pic takes always about 3500ms.
-Let’s measure times related to shutter speed:
1s = 2100ms
0.5s = 727ms
1/10 = 293ms
1/30 = 227ms
1/60 = 211ms
1/80 = 208ms
1/100 = 206ms
1/3200 = 195ms
It’s strange because at 1/100 I see the same amount of light than at 1/8.
So it seems that the shutter can’t go beyond 1/50.
-If I press receptively the shutter I see blinking black/LV screen (pictures trying to be taken) and the camera ends by crashing, sometimes with ER70. When not, the CF’s led is blinking.
I can shut it down properly without having to remove the battery.
I also can get a crash with error message, here’s the .log file crash00.
-ETTR module works for me and the « bipbip » occurs just after saving the picture, when the picture is being reviewved.
-Review of the pictures is shown until the shutter button is pressed again
-There is no EXIF info on the DNG file so, can't use LRTimelapse holy grail method... But there's info in .MLV format :DDD.
-If pressed while recording video.. it takes a pictures and crashes the camera.
A crash.log I got from pressing too many times:
ASSERT: GetMemoryAddressOfMemoryChunk( GetFirstMemChunk( pMem1AllocateListItem->hMemSuite ) ) == pMessage->pAddress
at SrmActionMemory.c:1154, task RscMgr
lv:0 mode:3
Magic Lantern version : Nightly.2014Sep26.7D203
Mercurial changeset : 81a2fd653497+ (fullres-silent-pics) tip
Built on 2014-09-26 21:55:08 UTC by mathew@mathewubuntu64.
Free Memory : 208K + 2955K
Here's a 10s timelapse I have made:
Also, I have the raw_diag module enabled.. Not sure with what I should do with it.
