Magic Lantern wikiFeatures. Cropmark images user editable overlays to assist framing and composition. Astro and night photography bulb timer for very long exposures up to 8h. Power saving Turn off display or reduce backlight in Live. View during idle times. And much more Important notes If you have a bootable SD card and have the BOOTDISK flag set in the camera which the installer does, and you do not have an AUTOEXEC. BIN file on the card the camera WILL NOT BOOTIt will hang and not wake up until the battery is removed. If you encounter a locked up camera, quickly remove the battery. When in doubt, remove the battery and reboot. And, remember that this software can damage or destroy your camera. Known issues First second of recorded audio may be very loud. Sometimes, rack and stack focus simply refuse to work, and you need to restart your camera. SD monitors are not completely supported magic zoom and RGB tools will not work. Magic Lantern has no audio controls for Canon 6. DT3i and newer cameras. You can disable AGC from Canon menus though. Common terms. Movie mode. Most cameras have a dedicated movie mode on the mode dial. In this case, its obvious what movie mode is. However, the following cameras do not have a dedicated movie mode. For these cameras, Magic Lantern considers the following configurations as movie mode. For Canon 5. D Mark II in Live. View, with movie recording enabled AND Live. This step is more about the theory of how stacking works if you dont care about random distributions and would rather get going, feel free to skip it. The Plugin Site Photoshop plugins, Photoshop Elements plugins, Lightroom plugins, free plugins. View display set to Movie. Tip you can change Live. View display type from Expo menu. For Canon 5. 0D in Live. View, with movie recording enabled from ML menu. Best Free Focus Stacking Software For Mac' title='Best Free Focus Stacking Software For Mac' />Free online guide to extreme macro photography, including focus stacking, macro techniques, affordable macro lenses, automated macro rails, lighting, equipment. When movie mode is active, Magic Lantern will show a Mv symbol on the bottom info bar. The Q button. Most cameras have a button labeled as Q. A few cameras dont, so you will have to use some other button. Focus_stacking/Zerenescreeenshot.jpg' alt='Best Free Focus Stacking Software Downloads' title='Best Free Focus Stacking Software Downloads' />D Mark II use the Picture Style button. D use the FUNC button. D use the Live. View button. Liveview screen layout. Magic Lantern uses the available screen space to display operational information in a clear and practical manner. The image shows a screenshot with commonly used ML features enabled. Some items that may need more details. Audio meters this shows the audio record levels, in d. B. The bars become yellow at 1. B and red at 3 d. B. FPS the current FPS value is displayed with 3 decimal places 2. Shutter speed in movie mode, values that maintain a certain amount of filmic motion blur 1. In photo mode, values that may cause blurry pictures are displayed in red. ISO values with low noise negative digital gain are displayed in green. Clipping dots on histogram they appear when the image contains overexposed areas. Greenmagenta white balance shift not all cameras let you adjust these in movie mode fine tune them from White Balance submenu in ML menu. Key shortcuts. PLAY mode shortcuts. Q 5. 50. D, UNLOCK 6. D, DISP 6. 00. D, LV 5. D, FUNC 5. 0D or Picture Style 5. Wa Setup Wa Setup Linksys. D Mark II show exposure tools zebra, false color, histogram, waveform, spotmeter and cropmarks as configured from Overlay menu. SET Main Dial Scrollwheel in PLAY mode customizable function preview HDR images, silent pictures, multiple exposures, timelapse playback, image comparison. See SETMain. Dial. LV create a transparent overlay from current image when Ghost Image is active. You can use it for panoramas or for repeating shots. LV on 6. 0D6. 00. D you can configure it to protect images with a single button press. SETErase you can configure it to erase images without the confirmation dialog. Zoom In quick image magnification a single click can zoom all the way in, on center point, on AF point etc configurable. Arrow key shortcuts. Arrow keys can be used to quickly adjust the following settings. Audio gains and input source ISO in intermediate steps and Kelvin WB push button WB also available Shutter and aperture, in finer steps LCD backlight, saturation and display gain. You can select what functions you need from ArrowSET shortcuts submenu, under Prefs. To enable the shortcut menu, press the following key. D the Av button optional cover the LCD sensor 6. D the Metering button near ISO 6. D the DISP button 5. D cover the LCD sensor 5. D the FUNC button 5. D Mark II the Picture Style button. Besides the shortcuts, arrow keys can also be used for focusing see Follow Focus. See also our Shortcuts article. Misc shortcuts. SET pressed at startup loads vanilla firmware does not load Magic Lantern. INFODISP in Live. View change current display preset, if this feature is enabled. Zoom In while recording it does just that Magic ZoomSET in Live. View center AF area the little rectangle. Activating AF mode dialog when Manual Focus is active will toggle Trap Focus. Press ERASE button to bring up the Magic Lantern menu. Use arrow keys, joystick or scrollwheels to navigate. Use SET and PLAY to toggle values. Use Q to open a submenu with more settings. Press INFO or DISP button to get help. In Live. View, press Zoom In to preview the image behind ML menu. Press MENU to hide items that you dont use to reduce clutter. For cameras without Q. D Mark II press the Picture Style button. D press the FUNC button. D press the Live. View button. One handed menu navigation for 5. D Mark II and 5. 0D optional. Open ML menu and submenus with a long press on joystick center key Navigate ML menu with scrollwheels Close submenus with a short press of joystick center key use Left and Right to adjust values Close ML menu with a short half shutter press. Audio. Manual audio controls. This menu is not available on Canon 6. D T3i. The 6. 00. DT3i already has manual audio control, but right now its not possible to change audio settings from Magic Lantern. You can only use audio meters during recording. Analog Gain d. B. Gain applied to both inputs in the analog domain. If you use an external preamp, set this parameter as low as possible otherwise, set it as high as possible without clipping audio meters should be green. L Digital. Gain and R Digital. Gain d. B. Digital gain applied to left and right channel. Recommended setting 0. Audio input source for recording. L int R extexternal stereo. L int R balanced internal mic on Left, external mic on Right from both external pins as balanced audioAuto intext camera detects if a mic is plugged in. Int is dual mono, ext is stereo. Balanced audio allows for very long cable runs without interference. Usually balanced mics have three pin XLR connectors and it is very easy to out together an XLR to Canon mic input cable. Balanced allows us to use such pro mics with our little Canons and this is a very welcome surprise for audio guys. Wind Filter. Digital high pass filter. See AK4. 64. 6 datasheet p. This is required for internal mic and certain types of external mics, but it reduces input impedance. See AK4. 64. 6 datasheet p. Mic power control thread. ON input impedance is 2 k. Ohm OFF input impedance is 3. Ohm. This setting is always ON when input source is either internal mic or L int R ext. Enabledisable Automatic Gain Control. AGC is applied only in digital domain i. Recommended setting OFF. Headphone Monitoring. Audio monitoring with headphones, using the AV cable. Disable this setting if you are using a SD monitor This feature is not available on 6. DT3i. To use audio monitoring, you need a special cable. Warning mobile phone cables will not work even if the connector looks similar, its not identical. You must use the original cable which came with your camera.