What is the use case for intervalometer and back button focus. I don't use BBF so I am curious... or is the issue that you need to turn off BBF before you can use the intervalometer rather than using it at the same time?
For motion trap, can you use Miops or Pluto etc triggers for this? I know you can for stills but not sure about video. If done in-camera then the processing will still be done full time (as if video is being recorded). You might reduce storage but not battery life
I would just like to reassign the Rate button... wouldn't mind scrolling through a long list for this as it would only be done once
30 minute max video.... easy to remove but they won't do it for their own reasons I guess. They want you to use their cinema cameras for long form video
1* I like to use "back focus" (assign "focus" to some back button, and "start exposure only" to the exposure button) in general, instead of the normal "focus & start exposure" when pressing the exposure button. That, in itself, had nothing to do with the intervalometer.
2* (EDITED) I wanted to use an intervalometer (to reduce camera shake) to take a photo every second for say 10 shots, so I could move my panorama head ball-stop position right one step between photos so I could take 10 different photos quickly (to reduce subject motion) for a left-right panorama. It would take the first photo OK and do the timing correctly for the other 9 photos *except* it wouldn't trigger taking those photos!
After a lot of frustration, I find there's a many-users-documented bug in the software where the intervalometer will take the first photo but won't trigger the remaining photos unless you assign the exposure button to "focus and start exposure". Go try it and see for yourself! So I have to make this unwanted change just to get the intervalometer to work, and when I'm done with the panorama I have to remember to undo the unwanted change so I could get back to normal (single photo) use with my desired back button focus! - Gee, who knew a temporary work-around for a firmware bug could be so weird?
3* If I wanted the intervalometer to take 3 photos with different exposures for every timed shot (eg. 3 photos at each of the 10 intervalometer-timed shots) then it wouldn't work right. That's because the firmware doesn't let you take 3 photos for a single press of the exposure button unless you do some weird stuff: which is to set it to continuous shooting mode, and to 3 exposure levels, and then press *and hold* the exposure button until all 3 photos are taken
. What a *goofy* way to do this! That in itself is worthy of an *additional firmware change* to allow a single button press (ignoring the hold time) to start a 3 different exposure photo sequence to be done. Then you'd be able to use the intervalometer and have every timed shot take 3 different exposure photos.
4* After the intervalometer is done, it turns the intervalometer mode off. So if I want to do another intervalometer sequence I have to go to the trouble to turn intervalometer mode back on before taking another one
. There is no way I could find to stop the firmware from always turning off the intervalometer mode at the end of taking its timed sequence. That in itself is worth an option in a firmware update! So if I want to do a multi-row panorama, using the intervalometer for each row, I'd have to re-enable it for every row!
. The work-around for a multi-row panorama (for me) was to give up on using the intervalometer and instead use a wired remote (to avoid camera shake) so I could individually start an exposure for every photo position in the row. That would also let me be able to take 3 different exposure photos per panorama position by pressing *and holding* the remote button until all 3 shots were done. Geez!
What is a Miops or Pluto trigger? I'm guessing some separate motion sensor going to the wired remote trigger input? Yes, that'd work for a single shot, but not for a video sequence. Could the remote trigger stay "active" with motion to trigger continuous shooting of stills? That'd work, but would take a zillion different filenames, but maybe one can't be too choosy! If that's the only way to get it working, maybe that'd be OK.
Yes, it'd be nice to assign anything to the rate button - I forgot about that - thanks!