What read all replies in full.

What Jeep Daddy has said s pretty much spot on the sort of answer I was looking for. that was the sort of info I needed.

Combined with another bit I found about using the Quick Focus mode ..it allows re focus with the back button, while shooting. yes it brightens the screen a bit while focusing, so you do loose a bit of video, but not as much as stopping magnifying focusing then shooting again.

Thanks all..for the tips and the pointer to the other sub sections,

Thanks for the replies guys. On iPhone now, time 0245, will read again in morning

In the two years I have been on this forum, never before had I seen that grouping of photography subsections. Have only ever seen this Main discussion top level section. Never noticed the sub-cats tucked away down the bottom there.
Even it's sub-title does not really let on it contains such a wide selection.
I did always think it odd that there were not more sub groups.
Always come in, and gone straight to the this Main Discussion group and never gone back up to top level to look further.

Brief history of my abilities (or lack of) first.

Had SLR's for 30 years
never shot video..apart form some DV cam maybe 5 years ago.

Had a 5D3 since they were released.so 18 month or so..never used video.

Well apart form a few 20 second bursts ...
Could never work out if the auto focus worked or not with video mode..three different focus modes but not seem to be able to work any of them out.


This is my first port of call..also google searching..but posting this first.

I have been asked (God only know why) to video a small local stage show put on by local Young Farmers .

Plan is a fixed point at the rear, on scaffold that also has lighting platform on.

I will have external power supply, so battery life not an issue.

Only to be played back on small screen/ TV etc
Show time 2 hr 30.

Quality settings?
frame rates?
focus point
?
Av/Tv/P
how to focus.

resolution settings/ fps and GB card size requirements

No plan for camera panning etc..but I have been told there is "audience interaction" ..so I amy well have to re evaluate that

I know this is a massive amount to ask..and I will be searching around as well

So any tips/ help appreciated.

OK, thanks

sorry for long reply time...this forum keeps losing the "auto e-mail update feature"

Any one have a dead battery for Canon?

Want to build myself an adapter to run from external LiPo.

yes I know I can buy the adapters myself but want to look at building my own to run off the boxes of LiPo I have from another hobby.

UK only otherwise postage will make it not worthwhile

Well...not exactly what I wanted..but it works easier than the skew/warp/distort tools.

i had played with it a bit before but had another go today.

It is the puppet warp feature in Full Photoshop CS6.

It does not auto warp, but once you put a pin in, it locks one layer to another, so unlike the other warp options..once you have aligned one section of the image, furthe movements elsewhere do not change those bits.

Couple of images attached of 1980's and now 2014.
Todays shot was wrong time of day. but I was in the area this morning.
About 50 shots...it is amazing how much differences just an inch or so of camera movement makes to little details like the little black corner of roof, in lower central portion, peeking out from behind the foreground roof.
Add all the potential camera movement, to unknown original focal length..it is a hell of a job.
Shame it was so foggy when the original was taken.

I have just re read it..



Seems clear to me, what I was asking ..but could be an American /real English thing ?






Strange how copying and pasting the original address does not work..but I never changed it before posting Just copied and pasted direct from the address bar

Hi, thanks for the reply, but you may have misunderstood my original question.

When I said


I could have listed all the image manipulation tools in PS, but thought that giving the general gist would suffice.

Yes , Lens correction tools can correct the warp in the building on the RHS, but it is not going to match the lines in that image to the lines int eh other image.

I want to pull all images in to one image , in different layers, pick selected points, and have PS do all the donkey work.

The method you describe is what I am doing now..using the many and various PS tools to manipulate one image to match the other.

I wondeed if there was a way to mark exact point pairs on each image and get PS to do the rest.

For example in the sample images.. I could mark the corners of the square boundary stone, label them, ABC..then mark the same places in the second image or layer..also ABC.
Mark corresponding points like window corners, roof lines, chimney pots etc on each image..then hit a single process button and let PS do the work of skewing and distorting just one image to match the second

Hi all

Just been playing with some old pics of mine in PS.

And was wondering if any one has come across any plugins or standalone software to align images, based on setting key point pairs.
I have been doing a reasonable job 'long hand' in PS using the warp/skew / distort tools, but to find an auto pluggin would be great.

i was thinking of something along the lines of opening the Then and New images, in separate layers, then specifying and labelling key points or lines in each layer.

Yes it can be done with lots of fiddling and opacity sliding, but to be able to set some points..pair them up across the layers and hit the 'Align' button, woudl be great.

I do know of the Auto Align feature in PS...but that is not enough when you may only have certain features the same in the images. And that only aligns images, it does not, from what I have seen, skew and warp a layer to fit the other.

My current project, there is a boundary stone in the fore ground, roof lines and some windows and buildings. Lots to go on and it is still a pain manually.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/images/lignieres_then_and_now/craft.html

yes, of course, totally forgot them

that is what I am hoping for..just wondered if it had already been done

If you can't afford one just now, take a look at reversing rings.

Not perfect but they do the job

http://www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=40

http://www.eos-magazine.com/articles/macro/reversevision.html

You either stick another old lens with a filter to filter adapter to the front of a current lens, or turn the original lens backwards on the body.

OK, you loose auto functions, but it does the job if money an issue

Enfuse..just looked in my pluggin folder
http://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrenfuse.php

Look up Lightroom plugins. I have a plugin... Can't remember the name...encase? Something like that

Nice...

With what software/ pluggins?