Just for fun i made a personal adaptation of a
fudgey's script (2008): the
Zoomin&out lua script (attached).
Tested on Ixus 125 HS
What it does:
- Zooming during long exposures
You can set:
- zoom in or out
- continuous or step by step zooming
- zoom steps at once
- exposure time (sec)
- ISO (80 100 200 400 800 1250 1600)
- ND Filter (auto, yes, no)
WARNINGS- normally cameras don't zoom during exposure, so, theoretically, this script could cause an hardware damage.
- you could get a crash (Lens Error). In case just remove the battery. I've got it some times with no conseguences.
DON'T TRY THIS SCRIPT IF YOU FEAR THESE EVENTS!- for cameras with => 64 zoom steps (S-series), Ixus 125, etc. it's safe a "zoom steps at once" => 4
To know how many zoom steps has your camera run the
zoom steps.lua attached (it's safe
)
TIPS- this script requires a long exposure time (=> 1 sec). So, use it in dim lights scenes with low ISO. With bright scenes you need an external ND filter in front of the lens.
TO DO (... any help very appreciated):
- the zooming out step by step still doesn't work works fine now (thanks waterwingz !)- correct script errors (due to my poor knowledge)
- correct the bad English in this post :-)
Sample
