i'm posting a new build that is more feature rich. i migrated a couple of modules from 550d branch and now more menu's are showing up. In this build you can set ISO, aperture, shutter, white balance...all the cool stuff. cropmarks is showing up and zebras kinda works (read further)
in all the menu's you can increase the value with SET and decrease the value with DISP. I'm still working on setting a button for resetting values to default ( i tried the AV button since 500d doesn't have a Q button like 550d but the camera throws the same button event even when the button is not pressed...still working on this one. for now you don't have a button to reset to default).
My testing on this particular build is fairly minimal, so i'm not 100% sure what works and what doesn't work. I'm making this build available in the hope that people will play with it and than publicly disclose what works for them and what doesn't. We are still far away from something stable, i'm hoping more people will start hacking the code for faster progress.
DISCLAIMER:
I hope i don't need to mention that all these builds are at the best pre-alpha. i've thrown all kinds of unstable builds into my camera and so far it's still working. If your camera starts behaving strangely (doesn't start or it starts doings weird stuff) take out the battery, put it back and everything should be back to normal. When you are done playing with your camera AFTER you shut it down do the same thing: take the battery out and put it back. This way you are sure that no ML task is still running in background and uses power or worst send the CPU in a loop causing overheating.
This been said here's a list of ISSUES that i'm aware of:
- first time you call the menu it takes few seconds until it shows. after thiat the menu comes up fairly fast. not sure what's the problem here, still working on it.
- the menu flickers. i looked into it a little bit but i don't have a solution yet. i believe i know what the problem is but i'm not sure how to fix it. i'm gonna look more into this one, it's driving me crazy.
- when i try setting the ISO my camera goes into some kind of loop where it keeps setting the ISO. still working on fixing this one. Just a heads up in case your camera goes into the same loop (take out the battery in that case)
- zebras broken. you will see the red zebra all the time in LV (unless you are focusing)...haven't started looking into this one
- HDR: I understand how the hdr shooting code works but i haven't figure out what triggers it. if i half press the shutter button the feature gets turned off...still working on understanding the trigger part of the code.
_ intervalomenter seems to be working fine. sometimes it takes few seconds until it gets triggered, after which is working just fine.
please let me know what you think about this build and of course what is your own experience with it
alins
