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Controlled Focus?

I know how great this can control focus because of the rack focus feature. Redrock just came out with something great but it's going to cost a few grand and it's a motorized follow focus with a thumb controller, so you can control focus with your thumb while using both hands to operate a steadicam. What would be great is if there was someway to connect a thumb controller like this directly into the camera's USB and have it talk to the firmware which would move the focus in and out using the lens' built in motor ... then we don't need to install a follow focus but still have excellent focus control - and quiet too if you're using the USM lenses
-dab

I just got my usb controller from okii (http://www.okii.net/). It does focus pulling and allows remote control of other things like live mode, start/stop etc. Might be what you are looking for.


- Chris

Time Lapse feature?

Was just wondering if we could get a time lapse feature built into the firmware the same way some of the Nikon camera's do. I don't have an intervalometer, and I've been using my laptop tethered to my 5D MKII in order to take time lapse stills. This limits me to the battery life of my laptop (roughly 3.5 hours). I could get a cheap intervalometer from ebay or something, but having it built into my camera would be much better.

- Brian


Why bother? You can buy a nifty intervalometer cable release for less than $50. I have one, runs for weeks on two AAA cells. The camera switches off between shots - that couldn't be done with ML hack.

- Janke


Magic Lantern for 550D has a simple intervalometer.

- Alex

Progress Update

It's been a little while so I thought I would ask. Any idea when we mght see Magic Lantern for the 7D? A beta? How about focus control through the lens motor with the ViewFactor bluetooth remote? Both of these updates are very exciting. It would be great to hear how things are coming along.

Changes made to main page

I had to correct some errors made in the assertions on the main page.

1) The Panasonic GH1 has the widest range of available lenses. For example, the 5D cannot use rangefinder lenses or lenses designed for APS-C DSLRs. Both the full-frame format and the flange focal distance limit the lens choices somewhat.

2) The sensor is not larger than VistaVision. VistaVision is, in fact, slightly taller.

3) The statement about "cinematic depth-of-field" was meaningless. What exactly qualifies as "cinematic depth-of-field"? Remember that movies shot on 16mm film, standard 35mm, and Super 35 are certainly considered "cinematic." Shallower depth-of-field does not mean "more cinematic."

3) The low-light performance is more than just "astounding": It's unprecedented!

New exposure mode?

I've always wanted to see a better way to autoexpose. Since you've already shown that you can detect over-exposed pixels, how about enabling a custom exposure mode that would automatically set ISO,Aperture, or shutter speed so that nothing is clipped? It could just be a custom function that still uses the camera's existing modes (aperture priority, time, P, etc) but instead of relying on the light meter it would set it so the maximum exposure such that the full range is captured.

Just my 2 cents.

5D Mark II to get firmware upgrade early next year to shoot 24/25fps

According to a number of sources, and purportedly from Canon Press Releases: http://blog.planet5d.com/2009/10/canon-eos-5d-mark-ii-to-get-24-and-25fps-in-a-firmware-update/ . This is great news for film makers.

uncompressed video

I rented the 5d mark II and was pretty disappointed with the quality compared to my Sony EX-1 XDCAM; I think it is because the video codec is too lossy especially in the color space. Is there anyway of outputting uncompressed video so that I could capture it uncompressed or with a higher quality compression such as http://www.aja.com/products/io/ Your comments would be appreciated.

Rob

Codec is fine

Rob, you must have done something wrong while using the camera. The codec couldn't be at fault because it should be theoretically better than XDCAM EX.

The 5D Mark II encodes video via H.264 at roughly 40 Mbps in HD mode. The color space sub-sampling is 4:2:0. XDCAM EX is MPEG-2 at 35 Mbps with 4:2:0 sub-sampling. H.264 is more than two times as efficient as MPEG-2. The only technical flaw of the 5D's video encoder is that it doesn't output B-frames, which improve encoding efficiency. But the bitrate and H.264 algorithm should more than make up for it.

The camera does not output full-resolution video over HDMI while recording. It only does 480p.

Codec is Pretty Good, but...

H.264 at 40Mbps is indeed better than XDCAM EX at 35Mbps. Having said that, it's not as good as XDCAM HD422 at 50Mbps, which operates in the 4:2:2 colour space. Although this is long-GOP rather than all I-Frame, so I guess it can be debated.

Anyway, perhaps the key question here is whether Magic Lantern could be used to change the codec the 5D II uses. It'd be nice to have some options. The previous poster mentioned uncompressed, and even though the file size hit would be huge, having something like Lagarith as an option would be useful.

Phill

How about Magic Lantern for the Panasonic GH1

It would be great to have all the features of the Magic Lantern for Canon 5D for the upcoming Panasonic Lumix GH1 as well. Visual Audio Meters, Manual Audio Level Control and Zebra patterns. What do you guys think? I suppose someone has to get a hold of a GH1 and test it...yikes!...and risk messing up their camera.

Did you read the FAQ? -- Autopilot 22:16, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Codec is fine but...

The codec is nice but not fine. When you play a video on a projector or HD display, you can see compression problems, many blocks and artefacts. For internet and SD projects, it's fine but for HD TV and Features, it's my First problem with the 5D. My wish is to use a better H264 rate to improve this quality. It will make the 5D fantastic.

Lionel

Pipeline > Progress > Plan

Dear Sir,

i wish to know about the progress on the 5D mark ii updates, what is the plan now after the release of the new 7D ...

Thanks, Amr


The 7D is not so competitive. It adds 25 and 24, but the sensor is smaller than the 5D. I tried it at IBC. But new things are coming soon from Sony and Canon.Video DLSR war has just began.

Lionel

AV Output / Headphone jack

Something I would appreciate is allowing the user to be able to user to pick between headphone out or AV output. Right now the AV output is changed to headphone and there's nothing I can do about it.

Thanks


It Would also be nice if you could output AV and use the cameras screen, this way you can shoot of the main screen and others can view remotely via AV output.

cheers


LOOP record delay.

This would be an ideal feature for event videographers using the 5D2. If the camera was on a constant 5 second pre-record loop, we could capture beautiful candids without consuming numerous CF cards. Alternatively, after stopping the recording function, an option to keep, delete, tag good shot or tag not good shot - to aid in an edit decision list.

Vaz

does canon pay not to publish, given the advances made by CHDK with canon pointandshoot cams. not suggesting collusion, just such interesting stuff happening at that level yet such seemingly limited progress with more advanced equipment. this is not a put-down as the work you do is so needed and you do seem to have good day job i couldn't do. please don't take offense. just wondering.--71.15.27.222 02:21, September 28, 2009 (UTC)

7D firmware update pending.

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=DownloadDetailTabAct&fcategoryid=314&modelid=19356#DownloadDetailAct doesn't have it posted yet, but there is a rumor on the dpreview forums that 1.09 is coming (1.07 shipped, and some have 1.09 already, so logically 1.09 is coming soon)

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=33288419

It might help with the getting a dump / port?

More than 3 frames AEB for HDR with 5D MKII

I am interested in doing serious HDR with the 5D MKII. To get a proper HDR you need multiple exposures across the full spectrum of exposure and tonality. A lot of HDR shooters will do 7 to 9 exposures locked down on a tripod to ensure maximum detail through the highlights and shadows. I know that I can do this manually or tethered to a computer but that can be bulky and take up a lot of time. I also risk camera movement. I would like to be able to set the camera for a 7 to 9 frame burst and expose as fast as the camera will shoot. The reason for this is that I would like to minimize subject movement in clouds or foliage in the finished composited HDR image. The cameras in the 1D series do this, but the 5D MKII will not. So my question is, Does anyone out there know of a hack/mod to the firmware to make this possible? If not is there any one out there who I can find to work on this?

Thank you,

--SoCalShooter 09:55, October 19, 2009 (UTC)

MAGICLANTER EOS 1D MK IV POSSIBLE ?

I'm looking the NOCTURNE video of eos 1d mk iv and is whitout jello shutter move! is for x2 digic IV processor or what? even the codec seems better why ? please 4:2:2 fullhd from hdmi for nanoflash.

magiclanter for 1d ? please!

sorry for english.

ciao

magiclnater "N" sorry key is dead :)

Fxxink bastard key "N" is dead:)

Canon SDK

Hello Magic Lanterners. I am using the 5D Mk2 for some research that needs me to capture 0.5 secs og HD video under remote control via the SDK. It seems difficult with rge current firmware. Question. Does anybody know if it can be done. If not, would it be difficult to write a FM enhancement to do it? Many thanks. --202.124.89.196 10:01, November 12, 2009 (UTC) Rob

We at the cinema5d.com forum LOVE what you have done with the 5d2... It truely has made that camera fantastic. However there is alot of questions flying about to do with the 7D port of the ML hack...

We wondered if there was anything we could do to help??

Many thanks,

Rumple of the cinema5d forum.

split video function

Hi Magic Lanterners Please can you add this feature Add: a split video function to continue recording once the 4GB limit is reached in another video file without stopping the recording process? Very important for many people !

uncompressed hd video out via hdmi

hi all,

i would love to have uncompressed 4:2:2 video out via hdmi or firewire. It would be like a dream come true if the 5d is able to output 4:4:4. then someone could use the aja kipro or even better a hdcam sr by sony (e.g. swr-1, srpc-1).

keep up the good work.

regards akira

Canon 500D Magic Lantern

Hello,



As you have said the 500D or T1i Is possible for a "hack".



On the cinema 5D forums i have got a group of people together would would be willing to donate, for your troubles if you do, make the firmware. As Canon well they are a bit lazy and out petitions have done nothing.



So if you wanna look at the article here is is, and let us know the amount you want and we will be happy to raise it !

http://www.cinema5d.com/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=9332

HDMI full HD without data overlay

Hi I just got 5D2 and nanoflash... i just find out that there is no true HDMI output on this camera!


that sux... can magic lantern solve that... I did seen 1080i res output... however that is not clean output... can magic lantern output clean feed through HDMI


FOR YOUR SMART PEOPLE OUT THERE PLEASE WORK ON THAT :)

thanks


Jin

Slit scan photography feature request!

I know that the main focus of development is in making advances for video capture, but while we're already here I have a suggestion that if actually done would BLOW EVERYONE'S MIND because as far as I know, it has yet to have a standard implementation AT ALL in digital photography; I'm refering to something called "Slit scan" photography..

In the past, how this has been accomplished in classic photography is that the shutter is just a very thin slit that moves very slowly from one side of the film to the other, thereby exposing all parts of the film equally, but progressively. This allows for the moving objects in the scene to become very visually distorted, in a predictable and oftentimes very visually impressive way. Take these examples I found with a simple google search for "slit scan photography"..


(Warning, the first one is a tasteful nude, but likely NSFW nevertheless)

http://ansenseale.com/photo.cfm?ID=1223

(these next two are safe for work)

http://people.rit.edu/andpph/photofile-b/doisneau-1.jpg

http://people.rit.edu/andpph/photofile-b/slitscan-1.jpg


How this could very easily work in digital photography would simply be that instead of all pixels in the sensor being sampled simultaneously as they are now, they would be sampled in rows or columns sequentially, each row or column for an equal amount of time and with an equal delay from the last. (It's not necessary that one row be done exposing before the next one starts, only that there is a specific time offset between their start times) Because it is being done digitally, there is no reason every aspect of this process couldn't be controlled and customized on the fly for the specific desired effect; E.G. whether the scannning went top to bottom, bottom to top, left to right, right to left, or EVEN if you wanted to get crazy and run diagonal lines progressively from one corner to another. The other main customizable aspect would be the total amount of time the "scan" duration took.


I hope I've explained this idea clearly and that I'm not the only one who sees the incredible value a feature like this would add to a digital camera. If there is anything I personally can do to advance this idea being implemented, I'd love to hear it, so please, someone follow up!

Thanks guys!

Matrixbandit 05:10, February 2, 2010 (UTC)

Help I've upgraded the firmware, can I install Magic Lantern????

Help! I've upgraded the firmware on my brand new 5D MarkII, can I install Magic Lantern????

Bracketing ISO vs Shutter Speed.

I Like the fact that the 1.6 version supports a larger bracketing feature. But I see that it alters the ISO to change the exposure.


Is there a way to modify it to change the shutter speer instead? GR 67.141.10.193 13:45, February 28, 2010 (UTC)

Language files for EOS 7D

Hi, does anybody know how to change language files for the EOS 7D? I've purchased an imported camera (Thai+English) and would like to use international language files in order to avoid discussions with customs when travelling abroad.

Magic Lantern for T2i/ 550D.

Any news when the ML firmware for the 550D will be ready?

Cheers,

J


Please make a donation section for ML T2i/550D.

50p and time lapse function on 5dmk2

1. what do you think, is it possible to make 50p on 5d mk2 like on 7d?


2. is it possible to make time lapse function?

Firmware 7D

Hallo,

is ther any news about the firmware for the EOS 7D

Thanks Robi

T2i / 550D

Can you let us know the progress of any T2i / 550D firmware hacks you may be working on.

Mainly the audio AGC is the issue, as probably already know. Also, if you need help with testing, could you let one of us know if you need any users for Beta tests.


Thank you so much.

t2i please

if you could get to work on the t2i issues such as the agc there would be a lot of happy people in the dslr world.

Any update on 7D?

It's been a while after the 7D release. It would be very helpful if any progress is reported.

Also want a T2i firmware update....PLEASE!!?

5D UNCOMPRESSED HDMI OUT

Hey Trammel, just wanted to let you know if you succeed with this feature in the next release im willing to donate $1000 ..... :) let me know any update/ progress....


ravirajah@gmail.com


I am with you on that, this feature would be huge to many users! Worthy of a firmware update on its own if you have it working and have the time to compile it.


aderi

Crop - Record 5x / 10x

Hi,


would it be possible to implement a function that allows me to record movie, while zooming to 5x or 10x in Live View Mode? (5DMkII)

Thanks, greetings from Germany



Michael

Canon 550d?

Is Magic Lantern Firmware coming to the Canon 550d? I'm about to buy one and wondering.


Thanks for your hard work,


Ken

Recording movies directly to HDD ??

Hi !


Maybe I'm out of order but it would be very nice if the 5D could record movies directly to attached usb drive (maybe SSD) formated in NTFS and extend the 4gb and 29 minutes limit.


Could this be done ?

5DMKII could slow motion be possible?

Dear Magic Lantern,


my question to the development team is could it be possible to have an extra framerate/ resolution for the canon as an extra to the rates already there.

My preferred resolution would be 1280-720 24 fps1280-720 60 fps.

Thus being able to capture some pictures in 1280-720 HD in slow motion.

The data rate isn't that far of 1920-1080 in 24 fps.

This would be superduper, Spencer Vos, creative director

15:16, July 11, 2010 (UTC)15:15, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

the ability to choose frame rate would be an awesome feature

from 1fps and onwards, 240fps like the sony HDR series camera, even though its for 3 seconds, it would be a very exciting feature.

7D Remapping sensor

It would be great if you add a Remapping option, by this way we can solve Hotpixels problems and get the sensor Remapped as we need to without taking to Cannon and pay for somthing that we sould do.

When will the Magic Lantern Firmware come for the 7D?

Your firmware is really great. I especially love the feature to turn off the AGC of the camera.

But i have got a Canon 7D and cant use all theese great features.


When will you release the firmware for the 7D?



Thanks for your answer,

Max Schiffrer

SKProductions

office.skp@gmail.com

For Nikons...

I speak for many Nikon uers when I state...I wish this was for Nikons too. Any chance of porting this over or developing for Nikons?


Nikons already have some features from ML... for example trap focus :)

Short answer: no. Long answer: if anyone has a test camera & skills & free time to understand how to run custom code on Nikon... maybe.

Magic Lantern for Nikon D7000?

There was recently a firmware update for the D7000.

Does this open the door to altering the camera's firmware further?

Are there any plans to do so?

--David

Newbie question: Iso not showing up

Hello everybody,


i installed ML on my 550D and it works like a charm for me.

The only thing i am wondering about it that the new (ML) iso settings are not showing up in Video mode.

Are they only available in Stills Mode ??

any Help welcome ;-)

Cheers Sascha

78.94.35.172 15:09, December 29, 2010 (UTC)


I am Consius,


Having same problems as Sascha. No ISO setting showing up in video mode. I have the 550d and a sd 16 gig card from Kinston , class 4. I have the other options but I lack ISO and aperture manual setting in videomode.


What could be wrong?

Instead of 4k video lets look towards cinemascope

Found this comment in response to the Philip Bloom post about 4k video on the t2i. I'd like your opinion on it.


"Now, I would much rather see people working on custom crop-marks, custom frame-sizes, boosting frame-rates by using a narrower crop-framesizes? Who would say no to 1920×800 cinemascope 100Mbps? Or 1920×800 48fps at 50Mbps? Even 1280×534 120fps? Or full sensor-height at 1296×1080 for a 2:1 anamorphic lens. With some clever work on the line-skipping I believe we could make the sensor anamorphic, if my mind isn’t tricking me out. Or a classic 1440×1080 for 4:3 usage. All of these seem to me more desirable than wishing for 4K-vaporware. Even if we don’t boost the bitrate it still equates to more bits per pixel at initial encoding.

Maybe even 1920×800 boosted to 170Mbps capped to 5minutes because of heat-issues? That would be gorgeous to say the least."


I think some of these developments would be better than searching for a couple seconds of 4k footage.


Regards, Pierre



I would like to add some suggestions to this topic.

A slow motion feature I think would be much more interesting then 4k. 60fps as today on the 550d that I have is nice but 120fps would be good for catching jumps in extreme sports and such things.


/ Henrik

Hardware durability

does anyone know the consequences to hardware, CMOS/shutter wear/lifespan. I notice monitoring CMOS temp is a feature, anyidea of sensible thermal boundaries, etc, to maintain lifespan 79.66.219.52 10:49, January 11, 2011 (UTC)

Magic Lantern on 50D?

Was wondering if Magic Lantern will come the the 50D as it would really be a great feature to have on that camera. Also, cant afford another camera xD

175.145.96.54 05:58, January 29, 2011 (UTC)Adrian

Installing ML on 500D. please help!

Hi. just heard about ML. seems like you guys have out performed by making something that no one ever thought would be possible.. so cheers to that!


I have a canon 500D and ur main page says ML will work on my camera. Last night i did a few things to try and download the software to my camera but as i expected, i knew i am doing it wrong.


So my request is, if you could write in detail on how to install ML on 500D the same way you have for 550D and 5D mark II


Its kinda frustrating to see such an awesome software in front of you but just unable to use it, but gonna be patient!! = )


ps: only if the language on the 500D page was no so techy.. it would be easier to download for ppl like me...


thanks.. really thank you for coming up with something like this!!! = )



720 at 60p function on 5D mkii?

Is it possible to make 60p on 5D mkii like that of the 7D? Thanks and excellent work! Tommy tommyshullmusic@gmail.com

eliminate jelly vision possible by shooting across the sensor...

Is it possible in the firmware to control what part of the sensor is actually used to capture the image?

It occurred to me that if you capture the frames of a video across instead of down the sensor you could eliminate the effects of jelly vision on fast panning shots.

if you go here you can see a quick test I did just by turning the camera 90 degrees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hddazl8zfVA

Ideally if the image could actually be captured sideways on the chip then the same thing could be at full resolution since the sensors on these cameras have more than enough resolution both vertically and horizontally to capture full 1080p.

173.15.8.173 14:32, February 22, 2011 (UTC)Drew

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