#magiclantern — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #magiclantern, aggregated by home.social.
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Very happy to have been able to catch a(nother) speculative documentary magic lantern performance by the one and only Melissa Ferrari , at the Art and Media Archeology Summer School at the University of Antwerp.
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Lioness Walking and Lion Laying Down (1887) Eadweard Muybridge
A lioness walking. Animal Locomotion.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #EadweardMuybridge #AnimalLocomotion #StudyOfMotion #MagicLantern #chronophotography #phenakistiscope #phénakisticope #collotype #lion #lioness
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Lioness Walking (1887) Eadweard Muybridge
A lioness walking. Animal Locomotion.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #EadweardMuybridge #AnimalLocomotion #StudyOfMotion #MagicLantern #chronophotography #phenakistiscope #phénakisticope #collotype #biomechanics #1880s #lion #lioness
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Lion Walking 2 (1887) Eadweard Muybridge
A lion walking. Animal Locomotion.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #EadweardMuybridge #AnimalLocomotion #StudyOfMotion #MagicLantern #chronophotography #phenakistiscope #phénakisticope #collotype #biomechanics #1880s #VintageCinema #lion
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Lion Walking (1887) Eadweard Muybridge
A lion walking. Animal Locomotion.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #EadweardMuybridge #AnimalLocomotion #StudyOfMotion #MagicLantern #chronophotography #phenakistiscope #phénakisticope #collotype #biomechanics #1880s #VintageCinema #lion
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Lion Walking and Turning Around 3 (1887) Eadweard Muybridge
A lion walking and turning around. Animal Locomotion.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #EadweardMuybridge #AnimalLocomotion #StudyOfMotion #MagicLantern #chronophotography #phenakistiscope #phénakisticope #collotype #lion
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Lion Walking and Turning Around 2 (1887) Eadweard Muybridge
A lion walking and turning around. Animal Locomotion.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #EadweardMuybridge #AnimalLocomotion #StudyOfMotion #MagicLantern #chronophotography #phenakistiscope #phénakisticope #lion
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Lion Walking and Turning Around (1887) Eadweard Muybridge
A lion walking and turning around. Animal Locomotion.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #EadweardMuybridge #AnimalLocomotion #StudyOfMotion #MagicLantern #chronophotography #phenakistiscope #phénakisticope #1887 #lion
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Light Gray Horse Walking with a Bucket in Mouth (1884) Eadweard Muybridge
A light gray horse walking with a bucket in its mouth. Animal Locomotion.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #EadweardMuybridge #AnimalLocomotion #StudyOfMotion #MagicLantern #chronophotography #1884 #Horse
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L'Hercule (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of Hercules showing off his strength.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #Hercules
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Les Scieurs de Long (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of pit sawyers working.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #PitSawyer #saw
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Les Petits Valseurs (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of couples waltzing.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #waltz
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Les Papillons (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of butterflies circling a flower.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #butterfly #flower
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Les Deux Espiègles (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of two mischievous girls tossing a cat into the air.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #girl #cat
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Les Clowns (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of trained dogs jumping through hoops.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud
#1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #dog #rings #hoops -
Les Chiens Savants (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of trained dogs jumping through hoops.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #dog #rings #hoops
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Les Bulles de Savon (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of a girl blowing soap bubbles.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #SoapBubbles
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L'Équilibriste (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of a Balancing Act.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #BalancingAct
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Le Trapèze (1878) Charles Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of a flipping trapeze artist.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #trapeze
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Une Poule Introduite Dans un Concert (1900) Maguerite Vrignault
A chicken introduced into a concert. Jules Moy is a talented pianist; sadly, his piece was lost to time. A part of the Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #MagicLantern #MargueriteVrignault #JulesMoy
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Le Steeple-Chase (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of riders racing their horses in a steeplechase.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #steeplechase
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Le Singe Musicien (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of a monkey playing a violin.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #monkey #Musician #violin
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Le Rôtisseur (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of a chef cooking on his rotisserie.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #chef #rotisserie
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Le Repas des Poulets (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of a girl feeding the chickens.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #chicken
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Le Moulin à Eau (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of a boy pumping the watermill.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #watermill
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Le Jongleur (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of a juggler.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #juggler
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Le Jeu du Volant (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of a girl playing with a battledore and shuttlecock.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #Cine #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #game #battledore #shuttlecock
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Le Jeu de Grâces (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
The Game of Graces. Praxinoscope animation of two girls tossing and catching rings.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #catch
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Le Jeu de Corde (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of a girl playing jumprope.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #skip #jumprope
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Le Fumeur (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope animation of a smoker and his dog.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud #1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #smoker #dog
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A Victorian Lady in Her Boudoir (1896) Esmé Collings
A woman gets undressed in her private sitting room.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #MagicLantern #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #1890s #1896 #EsméCollings #boudoir #victorian
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https://youtu.be/8kb16XhSxK8?si=NGGjOf4Ot8LCL37n
Fleur de L'Âme (1900) Maguerite Vrignault
Mily-Meyer and her amazing voice. A part of the Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #MagicLantern #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #1900s #1900 #PhonoCinémaThéâtre #MagueriteVrignault #opera #MillyMeyer
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https://youtu.be/hAZOQIYvdSY?si=ZW0NauBqQ__mXfa3
Eland Trotting (1887) Eadweard Muybridge
An eland trotting. Animal Locomotion.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #EadweardMuybridge #AnimalLocomotion #StudyOfMotion #MagicLantern #chronophotography #phenakistiscope #phénakisticope #collotype #biomechanics #1880s #VintageCinema
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https://youtu.be/CUVb2OhEomc?si=uYbbDjk1-ZeZbzMh
Chez Le Photographe (1900) Alice Guy-Blaché
At the Photographer's. A photographer tries to settle an uncooperative model.
#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #MagicLantern #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #photographer #1900s #1900 #AliceGuyBlaché
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Photographers are unable to fully exploit the capabilities of their camera hardware because of the closed source and restrictive nature of proprietary camera firmware.
#cameras #photographers #photography #opensource #camerafirmware #proprietarysoftware #magiclantern -
Waiting for a major consumer camera manufacturer to implement a Lua API to allow photographers to fully customize and automate their own cameras.
#photography #cameras #cameraapis #lua #cameraprogramming #programmablecameras #photographers #scriptablecameras #magiclantern #camerafirmware -
Funny the things you find cleaning out cupboards at work. #magiclantern
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“Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.”*…
Most historians of science fiction begin their stories with the likes of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, and lean on the extraordinary impact of Hugo Gernsback. Art and culture historian Fleur Hopkins-Loféron reminds us that there was an early 20th-century movement in France that prefigured much of what we now celebrate in speculative fiction…
When Nicolas Vermont entered the greenhouse, he would make a gruesome discovery. It was the early 20th century in rural France, and Nicolas was visiting his uncle – a scientist and surgeon called Dr Frédéric Lerne – after 15 years apart. However, he had soon grown suspicious about his uncle’s odd behaviour, so for answers had decided to explore the grounds of his relative’s estate late at night.
Inside a greenhouse in the garden, Nicolas discovered that Dr Lerne had been conducting disturbing scientific experiments. At first, he saw plants grafted onto one another: a cactus growing a geranium flower, and an oak tree sprouting cherries and walnuts. His uneasy curiosity, though, soon turned to dread. ‘It was then that I touched the hairy plant. Having felt the two treated leaves, so like ears, I felt them warm and quivering,’ he recalled. Grafted onto the stem were the parts of an animal: the ears of a dead rabbit. ‘My hand, clenched with repugnance, shook off the memory of the contact as it would have shaken off some hideous spider.’ [Quotations from published English-language editions translated by Brian Stapleford; the rest are the author’s own.]
Dr Lerne was in fact an impostor. His assistant Otto Klotz had stolen the true uncle’s body through a brain swap, and would not hesitate to punish Nicolas for his ill-placed curiosity… by transplanting his consciousness into the body of a bull.
Le docteur Lerne, sous-dieu (1908), or ‘Dr Lerne, Demi-God’, was a celebrated novel by Maurice Renard, hailed by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire as a ‘subdivine novel of metamorphoses’.Published in English as New Bodies for Old, it heralded the dawn of a new French literary genre – one that ventured boldly into the uncertain and the unknown. Renard called it ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ (‘scientific-marvellous’) and its ambition was to help the reader speculate on what could be, and on what exists beyond the reach of our senses, rather than what will be. In other words, allowing a better understanding of what Renard poetically called ‘the imminent threats of the possible’. As he wrote in 1914, the goal was to ‘patrol the margins of certainty, not to acquire knowledge of the future, but to gain a greater understanding of the present’.
Rejecting the ‘scientific adventure’ storytelling of the celebrated French sci-fi writer Jules Verne – who had died only three years before the publication of Le docteur Lerne, sous-dieu – the merveilleux-scientifique genre was grounded in plausibility and the scientific method. According to Renard, only one physical, chemical or biological law may be altered when telling a story. This strict discipline, he argued, is what lent the genre its power to sharpen the reader’s mind, by offering a wholly original kind of thought experiment. For example, Renard modelled Dr Lerne on the very real surgeon and biologist Alexis Carrel, who had experimented with surgical grafts, transplants and animal tissues… to the point that he even grafted a dog’s severed head on another living animal (the attempt failed). Following in his footsteps, Renard imagines an exchange of brains – and personalities.
Leafing through the merveilleux-scientifique novels today allows for a dual rediscovery: firstly, it uncovers the previously unrecognised richness of Belle Époque scientific fiction, which did not perish with the works of Verne. The stories take in journeys to Mars, solar cataclysms, reading of auras, psychic control, weighing of souls, death rays, alien invasions, even strolls among the infinitesimally small. But exploring the genre also offers insights into the cultural history of the era, marked by a significant permeability between science and pseudo-science. Reading this work, we can learn a lot about the aspirations, fears and beliefs of early 20th-century Europe.
Perhaps more importantly, the lesser-known stories of merveilleux-scientifique allow us to question the official history of science fiction – a term that did not even exist in France at the time as it as it would be popularised in English by Hugo Gernsback only in the 1920s. Whereas today it is sci-fi writers like Jules Verne or H G Wells who are most remembered from this period, the merveilleux-scientifique novels were just as imaginative and visionary, but often far more provocative, daring and strange…
Much more– with wonderful reproductions of the works’ covers: “Merveilleux-scientifique” from @aeon.co.
* J. G. Ballard (in a 1971 essay, “Fictions Of Every Kind“)
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As we speculate, we might recall that it was on this date in 1850 that the first U.S. patent for magic lantern slides made of glass plate was issued to their inventor Frederick Langenheim of Philadelphia, Pa. (No. 7,784) as an “improvement in photographic pictures on glass.” Magic lantern shows were largely informational, but (especially in Europe in the 19th century) magic lanterns were used to stage “Phantasmagoria,” a form of horror theater that (among other techniques) used one or more magic lanterns to project frightening images – such as skeletons, demons, and ghosts – typically using rear projection onto a semi-transparent screen to keep the lantern out of sight.
Interpretation of Robertson’s Fantasmagorie from F. Marion’s L’Optique, 1867 (source)#art #culture #history #literature #magicLantern #merveilleuxScientifique #phantasmagoria #science #scienceFiction #speculativeFiction
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🎉🤡 Breaking news: Magic Lantern is back! Because apparently, your 10-year-old camera deserves a second chance at becoming a glorified toaster with a firmware update. 📷🔥
https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=27315.0 #MagicLantern #CameraUpdate #FirmwareToaster #TechNews #Photography #HackerNews #ngated -
Just found out the #opensource firmware for Canon cameras have returned! I used to have it on my 400D. I might give it a try on my aged 6D when I get the chance.
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Magic Lantern is back!
https://www.magiclantern.fm/Magic Lantern is free, open source software that adds extra features to Canon cameras. After a five year hiatus, the project has resumed and brought in more Developers, and they're adding more camera models and features.
(Magic Lantern is for Canon cameras. I use Nikon and Blackmagic Design, but figure this news will be of great interest to Canon fans.) -
Magic Lantern Software for Canon Cameras Is Back https://petapixel.com/2025/06/22/magic-lantern-software-for-canon-cameras-is-back/ #magiclantern #Software #firmware #hacking #Canon #video #News #dslr
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After 5 years of being dormant, #MagicLantern the #OpenSource Alternative to #Canon Firmware just dropped a major update!
Newly supported cameras:
- #200D
- #6DMarkII
- #750D
- #7DMarkIINew builds for the old supported models such as #CanonM.
Great news!
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Best social media comment, about a former camera hacking YouTuber who went on to become a televangelist: "He moved on to something less complicated: the Bible."
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Acabo de descubrir que #MagicLantern tiene función de Dual ISO bastante funcional y se me ha abierto un mundo nuevo.
Tocará sacar la #Canon para hacer algunas fotos y probar.
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Clearing out the store cupboard at work and found these gems! #calculator #addingmachine #magiclantern #retrotech
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Is there something like #MagicLantern (custom Firmware for Canon cameras) for #Nikon cameras (specifically, the D5600)?
There are a few issues I have with the default firmware (unnecessary recording time limit, touchscreen controls unusable when watching through viewfinder as a left-eye dominant person, no custom modes, …).
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I'm also pleased to see that there's some support for #MagicLantern for my camera now. If I can just use it as an intervalometer I would be very happy as trying to get #TriggerTrap running would be a fools errand.
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This is to remind you that #magiclantern is a piece of OSS that teaches your old #CanonEOS new tricks. Maybe for to tonight‘s #Aurora, so we can annoy even more people by posting pictures of the light made by particles crashing into each other at high energy.
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HDR$ gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download --set-config /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=-3 --capture-image-and-download --set-config /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=3 --capture-image-and-download
I feel like a kid with a new toy. I mean of course I could have done this with #MagicLantern and interval + advanced bracketed capture, but I *no longer have to manually change the SD card* every few hours!!!
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I have a #CanonEosM (from 2013) with #MagicLantern. It takes good photographs with the 22mm lense but does not work with the Ef-M 55-200mm.
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Is there a Camera hacking / #ReverseEngineering community (or hashtag) hiding somewhere on Mastodon? For "real" cameras (DSLR / mirrorless)?
The #CHDK and #MagicLantern communities are rather dormant and seem to lack support for devices younger than a decade.
I'm apparently the last survivor of the #SamsungNX community (abandoned by Samsung in 2015), and interested in reversing their ARM firmwares, but my #ARM skills are rather modest.
:BoostOK:
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Continuing the #magiclantern experiment. The first image is the default HD output of the camera (with the frame cropped and blown up to match the ML output), and the second is the raw video shot at 960x540(!) and upscaled to HD.
What do you think?
I feel like one looks like a film still and the other looks like a photo. 🤔
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My little canon eos m with this manual 35mm cctv lens paints the most lovely blur. I use Magic Lantern on it, mainly for the 10x zoom that helps with setting the focus. Together, it makes my photowalks so meditative. It forces me to slow down, to frame the shot, set the focus and hold still… ✨😌✨ #canoneosm #magiclantern #canon #photography #spring
