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Magic Lantern menus: Part 2

Magic Lantern menus: Part 2

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Magic Lantern menus: Part 2

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- So Rich we talked about sort of the fun half of the menus. There's still a lot more menus to go here. - We're getting into the geeky area though now. - Totally, so the next menu over is the focus menu, and we have some ability here to do focusing in ways that we could never really do toward the built-in stuff. So for example, trap focusing. You're thinking, "What's trap focusing?" Well think about trap focusing as a trap for your subject. Once they step into focus, the camera will automatically take a picture of that person. It requires that you have a manual focus lens, but that's still kind of cool too. Now we also have follow focus. Hey, you know, instead of having to actually have a follow focus unit, you can turn follow focus on, and you can use sort of the joystick on the camera itself-- - [Rich] Which is really cool, I mean. - [Rob] To adjust focus, yep. - It's giving you the ability to use the controller to basically take advantage of that lens and use the autofocus controls…

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