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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 front 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 with 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 what, 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. - Which is really cool, it's giving you the ability to use the controller to basically take advantage of that lens and use the auto-focus controls as a Follow Focus so you could tweak while…

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