Magic Lantern Firmware Canon
Discussion
Just wandered if anyone on here has installed this firmware? I have a Canon 60D and was thinking of installing this. There are a few little extras. The one that I'd be more interested in is the HDR/bracketing function. I believe the 5D3 has a similar function. Wanted to get opinions before i risked it.
I use it on my 5D mk2 pretty much just for the extended functionality you get with bracketing.
It sits on memory card and doesnt really mess with the original canon firmware and if you put
a standard memory card in it goes back to normal.
You have to watch out you dont insert a bootable CF/SD card in without the magic lantern software
on it as apparantly that can mess it up a bit.
Has a bunch of live view enhancements and stuff for video, being able to force framerates down
to 1fps is pretty fun. There is also a built in focus stacking function which i havent got around
to trying yet.
It sits on memory card and doesnt really mess with the original canon firmware and if you put
a standard memory card in it goes back to normal.
You have to watch out you dont insert a bootable CF/SD card in without the magic lantern software
on it as apparantly that can mess it up a bit.
Has a bunch of live view enhancements and stuff for video, being able to force framerates down
to 1fps is pretty fun. There is also a built in focus stacking function which i havent got around
to trying yet.
I used it on my 550d for a while, I quite liked some of the functionality, but it did lock up the camera on more than one occasion and the only way to get out of that is to take the battery out. Thats all well and good but if you have it mounted on bars you might find you have to take it off before you can open the battery compartment, and according to the Magic Lantern info, you want to be whipping out the battery pretty fast in those situations.
No harm done to mine, it still works like a trooper so thats good but ive stopped using ML just in case. Shame as I did like having the 235 markings, but thats hardly the end of the world. I never had time to test if there was any real world increase in quality with the imcreased bitrates before i stopped using it.
Heres to hoping the Manual audio controls for the 7d work properly onthe next firmware release!
No harm done to mine, it still works like a trooper so thats good but ive stopped using ML just in case. Shame as I did like having the 235 markings, but thats hardly the end of the world. I never had time to test if there was any real world increase in quality with the imcreased bitrates before i stopped using it.
Heres to hoping the Manual audio controls for the 7d work properly onthe next firmware release!
neilr said:
Heres to hoping the Manual audio controls for the 7d work properly onthe next firmware release!
I didn't think it worked on the 7d at all......Yep, just checked and the site still says they can't get round the issue of the dual chipset.
Does it work in some limited fashion? never dared try it on my 7d
kieranbennett said:
I didn't think it worked on the 7d at all......
Yep, just checked and the site still says they can't get round the issue of the dual chipset.
Does it work in some limited fashion? never dared try it on my 7d
He's talking about the rumoured 7D v2 firmware release which is alleged to have manual audio control plus some other vid related stuff.Yep, just checked and the site still says they can't get round the issue of the dual chipset.
Does it work in some limited fashion? never dared try it on my 7d
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