Prepared to enter ML World....Pls help!!

[yanki]

hi everybody,

i am all prepared to enter the world of magic lantern. i have few basic questions to ask and will be glad if you could answer them.

1. From where can i get the information of how to do things in magic lantern?

2. I have 24-105mm lens with my 5d mark iii, i was planning to buy a tele lens 70-200mm, but will using the crop mode
    in   ML  with 24-105, increase the reach (tele end) of my 24-105mm lens? e.g if i use 3x crop will it mean
    my 105mm x 3x crop mode = 315mm? (which  means i now don't need 70-200 lens).

please do help me with my query.

thanks in advance,

regards,

[hyalinejim]

Yes, your 24-105 will have its focal length tripled. However, deoth of field will be increased and shadow noise will be greater compared to the equivalent focal length using a telephoto in non-crop mode.

Note that the 24-105 is relatively slow at f4 and is, apparently, not a constant aperture at any aperture other than f4. If you set it to f5.6, for example, the image darkens as you zoom in. For those reasons I prefer the tamron 24-70 2.8, which is a bright and sharp lens that offers 24-210 using crop mode

[yanki]

thanks for the reply....can you pls tell me if i can shoot with 3x crop mode in h.264 (not raw)?

[walter_schulz]

http://magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=17965.msg172806#msg172806

[yanki]

i saw that post but could not find the answer.

[DeafEyeJedi]

Maybe if you had clicked on the link in @dfort's post then you'll get your answer?