Steve Crow
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I didn’t understand your post fully but to me it sounds like the CF card was partially corrupted because of the untimely reboot so now the only thing you can look to do is try and recover or rescue the card in question using one of the recovery services that specialize in flash media cards. I’d copy of all the “good” files of that card asap but make sure you don’t write any new data to it.
Other people have reported success using these services on this forum but sorry I can’t remember any service provider names but a search of this forum should turn up a few. The information is most likely still there but the index or “table of contents” to the data was corrupted.
Steve Crow
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Yeah Ann the other problem with your current zoom lens is that it doesn’t maintain the same aperture as you change zoom so when you zoom in your image will darken and you will have to adjust ISO or shutter speed (although I keep my shutter speed as 2x the frame rate pretty religiously which for me means 1/50 of a second most of the time)
A constant aperture zoom lens is not cheap – maybe look for a good used one if budget is an issue. Something in the 24mm-70mm range zoom lens is a very popular choice
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Joe – that’s cool to know, I’m thinking of trying ML again. I have installed it a few times but each time ended up removing it simply because I didn’t like the way it cluttered my LCD screen and changed button functions – I guess there probably is a way to control the screenlayout of ML functions – I assume if you turned them off completely that would work but maybe there’s a middle ground.
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Oh it looks like ML does indeed support focus peaking, here’s a video demonstrating this feature on a Canon T2i
https://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/File:Magic_Lantern_Focus_Assist_Feature_on_550D
ML Version 2.3 apparently also offers the following focus assist capabilities: “focus peaking, zoom while recording, trap focus, rack_focus, follow_focus, stack_focus.”
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The rules are different for a DSLR because most DSLR lens are not guaranteed to hold focus once you zoom out so set your framing, adjust your focus and then, if you want, hit the optical magnification option (usually 5x and 10x) to digitally zoom in so that you can fine tune your focus.
Some people use external monitors specifically to help them focus better – not only is the screen usually larger than the LCD on the back of the DSLR but they often have focus assist features built into them.
Not sure off hand if Magic Lantern firmware for Canon currently supports anything like focus peaking to do this directly on your camera’s LCD screen.
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Interlacing technology actually comes from the old style TV (standard definition) where the bandwidth was very limited (think copper wire) that basically split each frame into 2 data packets (one containing all the odd “fields” and the second all the even fields) – there were other reasons too that you can learn more about here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video
There are still cameras that shoot 1080i (i for interlaced as opposed to 1080p for progressive, get it?) but most now days shoot what are called progressive frames. Your camera shoots progressive like mine so I never check the de-interlace box. Probably won’t hurt anything since the transcoder would be looking for something thats not there but run a quick test and see for yourself if you can tell the difference.
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This BeautyBox tutorial answered many of the questions I had as to how these plugins work, and yes at least this one does track and can handle changes in the angle of view of the face:
https://www.digitalanarchy.com/tutes/video_window.html?id=69060130
Oh and here’s the Red Giant tutorial for Cosmo for you to compare is you so wish
https://www.redgiant.com/videos/getting-started/item/143/
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Thanks for the links Mike, this is the request I most often hear from my female clients – can you do something about my skin. I usually just brush it aside telling them they don’t need it because frankly I don’t care for the look and making beauty adjustments isn’t that important to me but it is to some of these clients so I might have to rethink my position.
These tools are getting more affordable too I see.
I assume that both applications do some some sort of auto tracking and scaling so that the effect moves with the face. How good are they when the face starts out looking right into camera but then turns to the side in profile? Is the software smart enough to make the boundary adjustments now that the shape of the face has changed?
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This is actually an excellent video showing the difference between shutter speed and frame rate and the visual impact of each
https://vimeo.com/videoschool/lesson/56/frame-rate-vs-shutter-speed-setting-the-record-straight
Steve Crow
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