Release 0.1.5 Notes
New features
New menus
- Config file (magiclantern.cfg) support
- Lens zoom and focus distance readouts
- No more audio clicks! Only re-writes the AK4646 registers when necessary.
- Power save can be disabled to leave the camera on full-time
- Preliminary HDMI support (overlays are not all in the right places)
- Auto-liveview can be disable to support problematic cards
- Larger menu font
- Preliminary Sobel edge detection for "video peaking" (check config file to enable)
- CMOS temperature readout (maybe; not certain of units)
- Transparent zebra stripes
Known issues
- First two seconds of audio in first movie recorded will be wrong gain
- Lock-ups can occur if "SET" is pressed while Magic Lantern menu is up
- Magic Lantern menu is not cleared if zebras are not drawn
- Lock-ups will occur if the card slot is opened with the Magic Lantern menu is up
- Record indicator is covered by lens information
- Non-chipped ("chinese") batteries won't boot cleanly
- HDMI overlay is not in correct location (left audio level is not visible)
- HMDI cable must be plugged in at boot
- Composite video is never enabled
- USB mode is disabled
- Playback of movie audio on headset is disabled (always in loopback mode)
Internal features
- Better build system
- DryOS properties supported
- Silenced many verbose messages in debug log
- Preliminary lens info parsing
- Dynamic menu creation
- bmp_printf now takes a fontspec with color and size
- X11 to bitmap font converter
Downloads
THIS IS A PRE-RELEASE VERSION. Do not use it for production. There will be problems with it. It might destroy your camera. Please don't complain widely on the forums if something doesn't work -- we want to fix it.