Crop mood - Danne custom tweaks (EOS M)

[iaburn]

Wow that is really nice. Thanks for posting. Does this 16mm lens causes vignetting? I have C-EOSM adapter, but mounting a C-lens does not show up anything. Maybe wrong adapter from Amazon! Which adapter did you use?

Hi, thanks. I think there is a setting on the EOS M to allow recording without lens, which is necessary to mount lenses without electronic contacts. Try that if you hadn't already.
At least you should see light, no matter which adapter you are using.

Most c-mount lenses will not cover the entire sensor, that's why the 1x1 modes are so useful, they only use a small part of the sensor, so the lens protection covers all the area in use.


With this 16mm you will get an image like looking through a tube on 3x3 1080p for example.

There are many different c-mount lenses and it's hard to tell how big the projection circle will be, so I just buy the cheapest ones so I don't feel bad if they don't perform too good

[Walter Schulz]

Manual page 283: C.Fn IV, 7: Release shutter w/o lens

[zenny]

Hi, thanks. I think there is a setting on the EOS M to allow recording without lens, which is necessary to mount lenses without electronic contacts. Try that if you hadn't already.
At least you should see light, no matter which adapter you are using.

Most c-mount lenses will not cover the entire sensor, that's why the 1x1 modes are so useful, they only use a small part of the sensor, so the lens protection covers all the area in use.


With this 16mm you will get an image like looking through a tube on 3x3 1080p for example.

There are many different c-mount lenses and it's hard to tell how big the projection circle will be, so I just buy the cheapest ones so I don't feel bad if they don't perform too good

Thanks for explanation. I have a 35mm f1.6 CCTV lens. When I used 1x1 crop, I get just blur blob like bokeh on the screen. Would you mind shariung your configs while using 16mm C-mount lens to film such a gorgeous 4:3 video? Thanks

[zenny]

Manual page 283: C.Fn IV, 7: Release shutter w/o lens

Thanks for the pointer, your inputs are always as technically-precise as that of Danne and Bilal. Cheers and good night.

[iaburn]

Thanks for explanation. I have a 35mm f1.6 CCTV lens. When I used 1x1 crop, I get just blur blob like bokeh on the screen. Would you mind shariung your configs while using 16mm C-mount lens to film such a gorgeous 4:3 video? Thanks

I'm afraid this is not a settings problem. If your c-mount lens cannot  focus, you can try adding a spacer. It's like a small ring that will move the lens further, hopefully improving focus...

[onlykhaz]

Huge thanks for the Crop Mood updates! 

Danne, and the whole forum community, you're all amazing!, thank you so much for your work on the Crop Mood features for the EOS M. So grateful for your dedication and hard work. These continuous updates are transforming the way I use my little camera

You guys rock! 

[iaburn]

I've noticed that the new 1620p mode doesn't show the image through the HDMI out, is it something fixable or is this mode too special?

Not directly related to this build, but another issue that I have is that the image through the HDMI port is blowing the highlights from a certain brightness, while they still look good on the camera display and the histogram is also not reporting any overexposed area.
I thought that it would be a setting on the monitor, but I cannot fix it.
Is it a known issue? Anyone else did also notice that?

[Danne]

Hdmi for this mode could be working. I did'nr look into it at all but there is a lot of nice code around HDMI from Bilal we could play with.

[Ernani]

Hi Danne! Do you have any info about this implementation called 'Audio RemoteShoot' found on your build? It's a very clever way to remotely snap a photo that I didn't know was possible. It could be very useful if there was a way to trigger other actions from the camera as well. Just wondering...

[names_are_hard]

You're asking in the wrong place

Audio RemoteShot isn't anything to do with Danne, it's a core ML feature.  I checked the code, it doesn't have a way to select an action for the trigger.  In theory that can be changed.  You don't say what you want it to do, so I can't give any further advice.

Please ask your real question - what you want the camera to do - in either Feature Requests, or General Dev.

[Danne]

Hi Danne! Do you have any info about this implementation called 'Audio RemoteShoot' found on your build? It's a very clever way to remotely snap a photo that I didn't know was possible. It could be very useful if there was a way to trigger other actions from the camera as well. Just wondering...

I guess it could trigger any assignable button configuration.

[Ernani]

Thanks for the answers! I'll take the conversation to the proper forum thread to find out more about this feature and see if it can solve my problem.

[ML700D]

hi danne..
Is it possible to add recording 14 bits in H264 format?

[Walter Schulz]

LOL

https://wiki.magiclantern.fm/glossary#hardwired

[ML700D]

thanks walter.. I understand now

[eyeland]

Test build:
https://bitbucket.org/Dannephoto/magiclantern_hg_02/downloads/magiclantern-crop_mood.2024Feb11_Custom.EOSM202.zip



Added @doktorkrek nice fixes for the 1620p preview. As stated preview will have a section to the right which doesn´t do anything. This is TEST1. I we skip YUV_LV_S_H = 0x1E0038; // register 0xC0F11A8C it will fill up the whole screen but have a stretched anamorphic look to it. I lean towards keeping the TEST2 version. Maybe @gabriielangel and @iaburn and others could test and share their opinions?

Is there a version available for download somewhere or do I need to build it myself?
(Thanks for the amazing work!)

[Walter Schulz]

Download: Go to first post of this thread
Installation instructions: https://magiclantern.fm -> Downloads -> Download nightly builds -> EOS M
Detailed instructions https://magiclantern.fm -> Wiki -> Install Guide

[Danne]

Is there a version available for download somewhere or do I need to build it myself?
(Thanks for the amazing work!)

First post.

[2blackbar]

hi danne..
Is it possible to add recording 14 bits in H264 format?

you can have 10bits in h264 technically , but its more common in h.265 hevc .But its not available on old canons.

[Walter Schulz]

If I got specs right H.264 allows 12 bit. But I doubt we can have anything higher than 8 in ML supported cams (Digic 4 and 5) because of hardwired encoder.

[bohus]

Hello!

I'm shooting on the EOS M with a 2X anamorphic lens and a c-mount 50mm as my taking lens. I got the recommendation to try Danne's build of Crop Mood to shoot 2160p in 4:3 format.

I've installed and set it up to stretch the liveview to the correct aspect. All seems okay until I hit record and then I lose the 2x stretched anamorphic preview. After recording it usually reverts (sometimes it takes a couple half shutter presses) I can live with it, but if it's a simple fix... Any suggestions (I've tried a clean reinstall)?

Thank you!

[Danne]

How do you stretch the preview? Could you do a screen recording of your workflow?

[bohus]

How do you stretch the preview? Could you do a screen recording of your workflow?

I'll do so tomorrow. Thanks for the quick reply!

Also... someone told me that the preview for 2160p mode has framing that's a little off, but I couldn't get details. Seems okay to me?

Thank you.

[iaburn]

Also... someone told me that the preview for 2160p mode has framing that's a little off, but I couldn't get details. Seems okay to me?

The screen is  720x480 (3:2), so the image is a bit distorted, and there is a band at the bottom a bit "off". Nothing that really matters for previewing 

[bohus]

Here's my down and dirty recording of my anamorphic setup.

I'm very open to better ideas to get the most out of my little 50mm C mount & B+H Kowa both originally intended for 16mm film. I demo how the stretched anamorphic preview loses its stretch while recording, but then it comes back upon stopping.

Thanks for any advice!