UpsideDown Mode - Are recorded movies inverted?

[StunningShot]

Hi forum members,

The Magic Lantern userguide explains UpsideDown mode with "This mode is useful if you want to mount your camera upside-down." From a video I found on YouTube, it seems like this is useful for flipping the back camera display to be read easily the right way up if the camera is mounted upside-down. Does the mode also invert recorded video automatically?

If not, for an upside-down camera, is there a setting in Magic Lantern where I can get the camera to record the videos the right way up (rather than having to do it afterwards on my computer)?

Thanks for your assistance.

[Frank7D]

The only reason (that I know of) to mount your camera upside down is if you want the video to be recorded upside down.

[StunningShot]

There are many reasons to mount the camera upside down, including:

1. A potentially less complicated structure required to hold the camera (e.g. mounting underneath a quad-copter)
2. Easier access to buttons on the top of the camera (e.g. as above, if mounting underneath a structure)
3. Custom optics which produce an inverted image (compared to normal) on the camera sensor

[Frank7D]

As far as 3, if your optics are flipping the image, then inverting the recorded video would get you back where you started, thus making it pointless.

[StunningShot]

I'm still trying to invert the movies "in-camera" (rather than having to do it after recording, on my computer). I think I will try a feature request.

Frank7D, you are correct. No. 3 is actually a separate reason for wanting to flip the videos while recording.

In other words, a rotate-180-degrees setting for recorded videos would be useful for applications where:

• the camera is mounted upside-down, or
• where custom optics produce an inverted video.