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Tag: Canon

  • Catching a lightning made easy

    Motion detection is one of the features most cameras lack. There is some kind of trigger for taking group pictures by waving. But that’s it. If you own a Canon point and shoot and have already installed the CHDK, you will easily find a script on the CHDK page. I wanted to give it a…

  • HDR features in Magic Lantern

    I took the camera for a walk with friends. As it is when you have a nice walk, you meet somewhere. In our case we met on a bridge. I was not the last person to show up (actually I was the first), so I had some time to take some shots. Going through the…

  • Time lapse with magic lantern and Canon EOS 60D – first fails

    I finally made it: I managed to get the magic lantern run on my Canon EOS 60D.  Magic Lantern is a firmware extension for Canon EOS cameras which adds extended video functionalities to the camera. And it adds an intervalometer to the camera. So I learned something. Again. Obviously there is the possibility to create…

  • The first steps with timelapse and CHDK

    I was always fond of time lapses so I thought: Why not make my own? I wanted to install the CHDK – an extension for Canon point and shoot cameras which makes them learn new tricks – on my Canon Powershot S95 anyway and had the opportunity to play around one evening. After the initial installation…