enable motion detect outside of liveview

[falkor]

 i used the motion detect feature with great success, however, why is it only allowed in liveview ?

[blade]

I presume it uses the liveview data to make the magic happen.... No LV, and the camera is blind..

[Francis]

Exactly, there is no active computation or anything that would be able to detect changes in the scene.

[falkor]

    thanks for the replies.
next request, while in this mode, could there be an option or submenu  to :
-prevent the camera from sleeping (aside from the main menu-  just for this option to be selected)
-auto-dim the live view (for extended sessions)

i know those things are in the canon and ML as a setting, but imo the motion detect feature could bring it all together in one sub menu,

[Francis]

There are already so many submenus and options in ML in general that it would get out of control if menu items started showing up twice.