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Re: M3 etc focus move
« Reply #20 on: 28 / June / 2022, 17:05:26 »
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I can't remember what focal length I did it at... too many tries and I'm tired... but you can try the code on different focal lengths on your M3.
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« Reply #21 on: Yesterday at 13:51:35 »
@c_joerg

Had a play with things this evening and the counter seems to behave well when I'm manually focusing.

I need to think about things a bit more, however. That is how to exploit the counter to provide additional positional feedback between the Canon cm based steps (upper or lower).

Cheers

Garry

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« Reply #22 on: Yesterday at 14:12:58 »
Maybe you can interpolate the distances with it.
When i find time, i would log this values together with upper/lower on my M3M10M100_Focus.lua script.
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« Reply #23 on: Yesterday at 14:25:36 »
Quote from: c_joerg on Yesterday at 14:12:58
Maybe you can interpolate the distances with it.
When i find time, i would log this values together with upper/lower on my M3M10M100_Focus.lua script.

I interpolate between Canon distances already, by counting myself, ie moving 1 step at a time.

I’ll carry on thinking about it ;-)
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« Reply #24 on: Yesterday at 14:32:02 »
Quote from: Caefix on 28 / June / 2022, 12:10:52
... 0 after a shoot_half.  :-[
With AF : EFLens FocusPosition  : always 0, from near to infinity...

Edit: Btw, the [cm] unit of _upper | _lower is probably canonmeter, not centimeter.
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« Reply #25 on: Yesterday at 14:52:21 »
Quote from: Caefix on Yesterday at 14:32:02
Quote from: Caefix on 28 / June / 2022, 12:10:52
... 0 after a shoot_half.  :-[
With AF : EFLens FocusPosition  : always 0, from near to infinity...

Edit: Btw, the [cm] unit of _upper | _lower is probably canonmeter, not centimeter.

Thankfully I don’t use AF  :) ;)
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« Reply #26 on: Today at 01:09:21 »
Quote from: pigeonhill on Yesterday at 14:25:36
Quote from: c_joerg on Yesterday at 14:12:58
Maybe you can interpolate the distances with it.
When i find time, i would log this values together with upper/lower on my M3M10M100_Focus.lua script.

I interpolate between Canon distances already, by counting myself, ie moving 1 step at a time.

I’ll carry on thinking about it ;-)

@c_joerg

I seem to have got the EFLens FocusPosition feedback stably working, the 'secret' is to set the lens to the maco end before calling FA.create, ie on script start up:

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call_event_proc("EFLensCom.FocusSearchNear")
call_event_proc('FA.Create')
call_event_proc('InitializeAdjustmentSystem')

Once this is done, changing focal length keeps 0 at the macro end.

As to where to go next, my thought is to then create two look up tables, once again at the start of the script, or when the focal length changes. One table will hold where the Canon distances change, the other the step counter values at those distances.

Once the LUTs are set up, I can use EFLens FocusPosition to get where the lens is, then interpolate using the LUTs, albeit initially in a linear manner or using a simple Lagrange approach.

I be trying that next ;-)
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« Reply #27 on: Today at 01:37:00 »
Quote from: pigeonhill on Today at 01:09:21
I seem to have got the EFLens FocusPosition feedback stably working, the 'secret' is to set the lens to the maco end before calling FA.create, ie on script start up:

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call_event_proc("EFLensCom.FocusSearchNear")
call_event_proc('FA.Create')
call_event_proc('InitializeAdjustmentSystem')

Once this is done, changing focal length keeps 0 at the macro end.

Interesting. That also explains why I kept getting different results.
Nice finding  :)
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Re: M3 etc focus move
« Reply #28 on: Today at 01:58:35 »
Quote from: c_joerg on Today at 01:37:00
Quote from: pigeonhill on Today at 01:09:21
I seem to have got the EFLens FocusPosition feedback stably working, the 'secret' is to set the lens to the maco end before calling FA.create, ie on script start up:

Code: [Select]
call_event_proc("EFLensCom.FocusSearchNear")
call_event_proc('FA.Create')
call_event_proc('InitializeAdjustmentSystem')

Once this is done, changing focal length keeps 0 at the macro end.

Interesting. That also explains why I kept getting different results.
Nice finding  :)

 Caveat is, I only tested it a few times ;-)
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