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Title: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 22, 2014, 08:00:28 AM
I shot in RAW resolution 1344x538, 1/50, 24p (FPS Override set to 24.000) w 22mm STM, Dual ISO (100/1600) and closed the iris down to f12 for ETTR effect.

Workflow:
originally I convert the RAW files with MLVMytic (Beta 0.5) with the Dual-ISO settings on. Worked well but couldn't figure out why ACR couldn't read the DNG files from the MLVMystic (Beta 0.5) version? (probably because they are technically CinemaDNG which should work fine with DaVinci Resolve but my old macbook pro doesn't hold up with the real time playback very well.

So I went back to the good old fashion way of exporting the CDNG through Adobe LightRoom5 to fine-tune & color grade them and then export as TIFF files.

THEN Open IMAGE SEQUENCE in Quicktime 7 and exported as quicktime format in 1920x720 422 HQ.. (I'm starting to think I could have not stretched it out as much) but oh well its just a test!

p.s. I tried to use RAWTHERAPEE to try and get rid of the hot/dead pixels that the EOS-M usually produces... SO FRUSTRATING! I can only open one file at a time to get the effect to work and Im not sure how to batch them all together to make it quicker. Probably will get this task done on the next test!

I am still seeing a bunch of aliasing going on...  :-\

http://vimeo.com/106783237
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: a1ex on September 22, 2014, 08:22:21 AM
Please don't use MLVMystic.

www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=12796.msg126515#msg126515
www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=13335
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: Danne on September 22, 2014, 01:17:16 PM
Nice to see some dual iso movie action :)
Here are som good conversion apps. There is also the neccesity to implement Alex --same-level command to avoid flickery dng:s in movie sequences. You can get more info here:

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=12796.25

Lightroom (Mac, windows)
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=11056.0

MLVFS (use it with binary to convert dual isofiles)
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=13152.0

Barracuda (windows)
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=9102.0
Title: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 22, 2014, 07:27:57 PM
@A1ex -- thanks for referring NOT to use MLVmystic as I've just noticed that it is technically out of date and won't be maintained! My fault on that...

@Danne -- I do have the Cr2hdr plugin to use in LR5 but maybe I keep telling myself that I'm not quite sure if it compresses after the converts? I'll check and see if the plug in is up to date since I installed it sometime late last year after the holidays? It may need to be updated and I'll give it another test with the same exact RAW file that was used in this video.

I'll see if I can get this to work again while at work today. Thanks all for your feedbacks!
Title: My SECOND DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 23, 2014, 10:25:18 AM
Take two...

http://vimeo.com/106903984

cr2hdr: a post processing tool for Dual ISO images

Last update: 0eabcb0 on 2014-08-29 12:42:54 UTC by a1ex:
cr2hdr exposure matching: when all else fails, brute force prevails...

Active options:
--amaze-edge    : use a temporary demosaic step (AMaZE) followed by edge-directed interpolation (default)
--cs2x2         : apply 2x2 chroma smoothing in noisy and aliased areas (default)
--wb=graymax    : set AsShotNeutral by maximizing the number of gray pixels (default)

Input file      : /Volumes/LaCie/EOS-M first TEST/M20-1628_C0000/M20-1628_C0000_00348.dng
Camera          : Canon EOS M
Camera model    : Canon EOS M
Full size       : 1344 x 538
Active area     : 1344 x 538
Black borders   : N/A
ISO pattern     : BddB RGGB
White levels    : 14045 14882
Noise levels    : 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 (14-bit)
ISO difference  : 4.06 EV (1663)
Black delta     : 21.37
Dynamic range   : 10.55 (+) 10.65 => 14.70 EV (in theory)
Looking for hot/cold pixels...
Hot pixels      : 502
Cold pixels     : 129
AMaZE interpolation ...
Amaze took 0.22 s
Edge-directed interpolation...
Semi-overexposed: 37.09%
Deep shadows    : 35.24%
Horizontal stripe fix...
Full-res reconstruction...
ISO overlap     : 3.5 EV (approx)
Half-res blending...
Chroma smoothing...
Building alias map...
Filtering alias map...
Smoothing alias map...
Final blending...
Noise level     : 8.00 (20-bit), ideally 8.00
Dynamic range   : 16.55 EV (cooked)
AsShotNeutral   : 0.51 1 0.62, 5107K/g=1.04 (gray max)
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: a1ex on September 23, 2014, 10:38:49 AM
Use --same-levels to get rid of the flicker ;)
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 23, 2014, 07:49:37 PM
@a1ex - That's right I read that somewhere in the forums recently, unfortunately I went ahead and shot this video in RAW without the Post Deflicker enabled. So I don't have the sidecar file (XMP) to use in post. My fault on that!

Will shoot another test with a new RAW/MLV file in order to add the XMP file to match the black levels.

Unless it is possible for me to adjust the black levels solely in ACR and perhaps just sync them up? Thoughts?
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: a1ex on September 23, 2014, 07:57:43 PM
Post deflicker? That's for still photos (timelapse).
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 23, 2014, 08:14:27 PM
Now that's even more embarrassing. Yes, again you are right. However, per Danne's suggestion that I tried to use the command in terminal to set the black levels... This is the errors that I am getting in Terminal. Thoughts?

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3875/15147066809_c53a198380_o.png) (https://flic.kr/p/p5uFfi)
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: Danne on September 23, 2014, 11:05:20 PM
Here are to ways to get a1ex --same-levels command to apply on your files.

This link apply same levels to already converted dng files
http://youtu.be/HzVSAU9v7r8

This link will convert dual iso dng to regular dng and apply same levels to them
http://youtu.be/mrOUD2hskVU?list=UUomeOeghS6wanMOCQ8BtH_A
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 24, 2014, 04:49:26 AM
@Danne -- Thanks for the follow up regarding these instructional videos. I could swear I followed these instructions precisely and yet I'm still getting these odd errors.

Will definitely try them again as soon as I get home from work. Thanks again for your kind support as always!  :D
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 24, 2014, 10:03:00 AM
Just got home. Terminal went well -- Thanks again Danne and now I am facing this pop up window again after attempting to export DNG's into ACR (same applies for LR5) and Last time it was due to MLVMystic but this isn't the case.

Any thoughts?

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2943/15339353055_6d312b93b8_o.png) (https://flic.kr/p/pnucfp)
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: Danne on September 24, 2014, 12:13:39 PM
Try again to run both commands. One after the other. Both black and white level command has to be applied.
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 24, 2014, 08:00:12 PM
@Danne -- good enough for you to know (obviously this has happened to you before) in which I find it odd and after going through the commands again it just somehow made it readable to both ACR & LR5. So strange but thanks again.

So for this workflow I used the same original RAW file from the first video in this post.

Workflow as it follows:

MLVFS>Adjusted the Black levels in Terminal commands (Thanks Danne!)>LR5 (color grade) & then export as 16-bit TIFF's> Open as Image Sequence in QT7 to export as Quicktime 422 HQ.

Ideally I would rather use Davinci Resolve for the shorter and easier workflow but my old 2006 Macbook Pro (even with the new upgrade memory ram and SSD drive) and yet it's not able to playback smoothly. *grunts*

Here's Take 3-
http://vimeo.com/107067504

***Even after getting the Blacks level adjusted somehow made the HOT/DEAD pink/green pixels slightly more visible (which is a known issue for EOS-M owners and I am aware of the fix can be made with RawTheraPee -- but I'm currently still searching on the net for a way how to apply the fix for all files rather than doing them one by one. Perhaps anyone know a shortcut key regarding the software to make that possible?
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: Danne on September 24, 2014, 08:19:39 PM
Have you tried mlrawviewer?
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 24, 2014, 09:32:46 PM
Speaking of MLRawViewer... I'm currently exporting the converted DNG's them as DNG's (not Quicktime .MOV) with the Quality enabled as well as the Status of Stripes correction.

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2943/15343923702_a34398fdae_o.png) (https://flic.kr/p/pnTBWE)

Let me know if this is the correct set up?

Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: Danne on September 24, 2014, 09:44:24 PM
Probably right but don, t know if double exporting dngs works?
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 24, 2014, 10:09:27 PM
These hot/dead pixels basically show up whenever my lens is facing the sun and somehow it goes away (kind of) when it doesn't have the flare coming in...

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3873/15344182532_b7f398c8a5_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pnUWTf)

and you're right it won't let me export as DNG's... nor as .MOV either.

So should I start with the Original RAW DNG's through with MLRawViewer and export them as DNG's prior to doing the MLVFS?

or afterwards?

ugh sorry for all the questions but I would like to get the proper workflow done first before I go ahead and shoot some 2.5k DUAL ISO videos...  ;)
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 26, 2014, 06:47:53 AM
so I started the whole process again with the original RAW file -- my question now is... is it possible for the RAW files to become useless after being used with MLVFS? Because after the MLVFS conversion which produced all of the DNG's into a strange pinkish look in every frame. I was hoping that it would go away once I use LR5 to export the DNG's with cr2hd2 20-bit plugin but I keep getting the pop up window with nothing stated that the DNG's have been converted. Nothing happens!

So does that mean the RAW file is somehow useless or am I missing something?
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 26, 2014, 09:19:45 AM
 ::) Although this worked fine just the other day after following Danne's suggestions and here I am about to give up on with this particular RAW file and probably going to end up shooting another DUAL-ISO test some time tomorrow. perhaps outside of my work area or nearby the beach.

This is what I am dealing with so far...
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3860/15170888620_2084b90d8f_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p7ALDb)
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2942/15334570166_4ddfb8ab6a_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pn4FsN)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3851/15170888680_b31090be30.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p7ALEd)

Anyone notice anything odd or familiar from this kind of behavior? I wonder if it's an MLVFS issue... PROBABLY NOT!

Shame on me...
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: dmilligan on September 26, 2014, 01:28:16 PM
make sure you have the latest version of mlvfs (read/write support was only implemented recently),
you can also try copying the files out of mlvfs into the real file system and see if you get the same error (that would indicate whether or not its an issue with mlvfs)
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: Danne on September 26, 2014, 03:37:08 PM
What are your settings in lightroom? Last I experimented I had to have "same levels" option ticked to get conversion going. Otherwise it stopped at after the first file was converted. Of course I had to set "same levels" again after the conversion for exiftool to work outside mlvfs. 
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 27, 2014, 05:41:16 AM
The pinkish occurs before I even go into LR5 so I wouldn't say it is an issue with LR5 nor MLVFS because I did try to copy the files out of MLVFS folder into another folder on my desktop and yet it did still produce the exact same pinkish effect.

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3885/15178932587_f4de2fbe7f_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p8iZQg)

Is this normal for this to occur even after converting more than once on a single DUAL-ISO RAW file?
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 27, 2014, 06:00:43 AM
@dmilligan -- I just did an update right now with your latest MLVFS from your bitbucket site. Still comes up Pink. I think I may have somehow corrupted the RAW file itself?

So what can I do to prevent this from happening again?
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: mjneubrander on September 27, 2014, 08:48:07 AM
So I did some stuff with rawtherapee batching a while back. At that point you needed to create a saved profile via the GUI and then run it via command line. These were the cmd line options rawtherapee -t -Y -p profilepath/profile.pp3 -o outputdir -c inputdir

-t = 16 bit tiff
-Y = overwrite
-p = profile
-o = output dir
-c = input dir to convert

The rawpedia entry (not sure how long the IP is valid for, but it sure is interesting to see a website run on an IP these days.)
http://50.87.144.65/~rt/w/index.php?title=Command-Line_Options

My archaic batch file VBS and BAT combined, including multiple command line batch commands for different raw programs and compiling into movies with ffmpg based on the old raw format (before mlv)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2sc-xLyUSKqQWdPdlFHZjlPaU0/edit?usp=sharing
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: Danne on September 27, 2014, 08:54:49 AM
@deafyeyejedi
Did you also try converting your mlv file with mlrawviewer to see if the original file is like you suggests "corrupted"?
Could you upload a copied corrupted file for download?
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 27, 2014, 11:16:46 AM
Thanks for the inputs @mjneubrander but I think I'll just stick with the MLVFS along with the 20-bit cr2hdr plug-in. Much quicker I think? Also I'm more of a Mac Guru but thanks though!

@Danne -- Thanks again for your responds. Yes I did try to export it through MLRawViewer (which did not produce the pinkish effect) and sure here are the links to each DNG (all the same file) from all four different exports...

MLVFS: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24998329/Dual%20ISO/MLVFS_DNG/M20-1628_000000.dng

MLRawViewer (w/ AmAze enabled): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24998329/Dual%20ISO/MLVRAWVIEWER_AMAZEon/M20-1628_000000.DNG

MLRawViwer (straight): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24998329/Dual%20ISO/MLVRAWVIEWER_DNG/M20-1628_000000.DNG

RAWMagic: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24998329/Dual%20ISO/RAWMAGIC_DNG/M20-1628_C0000_00000.dng

According to my eyes... It seems that MLRawViewer is producing really bad aliasing for some reason and not with either MLFVS nor RAWMagic. Thoughts? (Although I love the idea of being able to add LUT's along with 3D LUT's combined as well prior to exporting as DNG's from MLRawViewer -- I wouldn't want to export as a .MOV because of the 10-bit limitation unless the producers want the footage right off the bat!)
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: Danne on September 27, 2014, 11:30:39 AM
Your "tint" setting is of the chart on the mlvfs file. Still looks fine after cr2hdr conversion though when I tried in terminal.
Don,t know were the problem lies though. Gonna try dmilligans latest version soon to see how it works on my computer.
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: dmilligan on September 27, 2014, 05:08:18 PM
Looks like an issue with the white balance calculation (AsShotNeutral is way off: 0.0005, 1, 0.0005). There's also some other strange data in there, I think the WB is wrong because the camera model is wrong (white balance matrices are taken from dcraw and found by camera model). @DeafEyeJedi, could you upload the first 20 MB or so of the original MLV file?
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 27, 2014, 07:07:55 PM
@Danne -- was the 'tint' being off the chart due to conversion being done with different programs or due to using a color profile in EOS-M (which was Technicolor CineStyle and I've never really had any issue with it) or could it be affected after adjusting the black/white levels in Terminal?

@dmilligan -- how could WB be wrong if we shoot it in RAW? Unless you're referring a different WB issue that I don't know about?

Sure I am currently uploading the original MLV file but not sure how to cut it into 20mb or so? Ive tried copying and paste and wait until it reaches 20-30mb and cancel it -- it won't save parts of it and the original size is about 930 mb which would be too big for you, correct?

any suggestions on how to gets part of the MLV file without compressing it? Otherwise I can just post a link from the original MLV file...

Perhaps you can cancel the download once you get to about 20-30mb (or would that not work?  ::))

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24998329/Dual%20ISO/M20-1628.MLV
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: ayshih on September 27, 2014, 07:23:11 PM
chmee's mlvdiag 1.0.0 (https://secure.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5618.msg119737#msg119737) lets you save a minimal version of the MLV ("all metadata, one videoframe and one audiochunk").  (I don't know if there's a direct link to version 1.0.1, which has another option for saving just the first 55 MB of MLV file, but it's included in the raw2cdng download.)
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 27, 2014, 07:38:36 PM
Thanks for the inputs @ayshih and unfortunately there's no windows in here, I was hoping there would be a mac version of this because I did run into this link from @chmee awhile ago (great idea but I don't have windows nor Wine BUT I have VMware Fusion installed -- although it runs awfully slow on this old macbook pro of mine) so hopefully I'll take my time today to research online for a way to make this possible on a MAC...

Good thing I am off work today.

Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: dmilligan on September 27, 2014, 08:04:08 PM
What I meant was that the WB metadata generated by mlvfs was wrong (this is why the tint is off the charts), because the camera model is invalid (to compute the WB metadata to put in the dng, we need to know the camera model). mlvfs should have caught the error and simply put a standard daylight WB in the metadata.
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: dmilligan on September 27, 2014, 08:18:03 PM
thanks for the link, I got it
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 27, 2014, 08:58:19 PM
Gotcha now that makes sense. Let me know if there's anything that I can do to help contribute in efforts to make your software more effective?

Perhaps would you like for me to choose the WB settings manually in MLVFS if possible?

Thanks again!
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: dmilligan on September 27, 2014, 10:48:30 PM
Okay I fixed the issue with mlvfs, it now falls back to using the 5D3 matrix if the camera model name is invalid. The question is, why is the model name wrong in the MLV file? Looks to be a problem with ML. The model name recorded in the MLV file is: "ERR:1ERR:1 md:0x       0 ml:0". What build are you using? Are all your MLV files like this?
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 28, 2014, 05:13:57 AM
Not all MLV files show that error. It was an EOS-M with the 9/11 nightly build and now I've just updated to the latest firmware from last night.  Currently on the 9/27 build for both 5D3 & EOS-M. My only assumption for this issue to arise would be because the MLV files are directly from EOS-M that may not yet be integrated in with MLVFS if I'm not wrong but could that be causing the error?? I'll shoot some more quick DUAL ISO in my room at night just to see how much it can pick up without getting much noise for the heck of it! (it's 8:30pm in here my time)

but the funny thing is that the first time I used MLFVS with MLV files from EOS-M turned out just fine I thought? If you could tell from the 2nd video in this post from earlier. Maybe I ruined it from dragging out from my external drive into my macbook's SSD just to get quicker rendering??? Although I placed them back into the original location and all still seem work as normal.

Also I thought of another possibility to may have cause this issue would be because I used MLFVS with a folder that contained the DNG's which are saved in an external HD connected via firewire 800 to my macbook. Does the process from MLVFS require the folder/files to be performed directly on the system's drive as opposed to an external drive?

Maybe I'm just crazy...
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 28, 2014, 06:24:17 AM
So here I did the update to the latest MLVFS, adjust Black/White levels in Terminal and then re-export the DNG's. Then I tried to apply the cr2hdr 20-bit convert and again ran into this error where it says 'no image'... feels like a never ending climb on this one giant wall of ERRORS after one another.

@Danne -- do you think this could be related to the current settings in LR5 w the plugin that I am using for these particular DUAL-ISO files?

Here's what it looks like...
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3848/15189189839_be532862c1_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p9dyXr)

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3919/15375632922_ef04ddc07b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pqG8Zm)

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3849/15189245580_2061644987_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p9dRwu)

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2944/15375928055_06038aa8e3_o.png) (https://flic.kr/p/pqHDHR)

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2948/15352924236_0270725533_o.png) (https://flic.kr/p/poFKuh)

Ugh...
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 28, 2014, 07:33:48 AM
***UPDATE***

Actually I went into some troubleshooting and decided to take the DNG's (exported from MLVFS and not yet used black/white command in Terminal -- because I figured I could get this taken care of while converting through cr2hdr 20-bit plugin in LR5...

It's currently processing... apparently it cannot be done if the folder containing the DNG is in an external drive (must be on system's drive) is this normal???
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: Danne on September 28, 2014, 07:38:24 AM
There is some issues with the lightroom plugin at the moment. Follow the lightroom thread.
For now I suggest you use mlvfs and the drag to terminal method as in one of the videos. If you hit cmd+t you could even do multiple bash actions (repeat terminal command). Or simply export to dng with mlrawviewer and use terminal from there if the exif temp issue is too much hassle with mlvfs.
Apply exiftool same level after conversion.


Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: Danne on September 28, 2014, 09:42:56 AM
This is how I would do it at the moment.

http://youtu.be/tCszO1nGrwc
Title: Re: My first DUAL-ISO RAW Video Test with EOS-M
Post by: DeafEyeJedi on September 28, 2014, 09:56:08 AM
I guess that makes sense and we are better off to do it in this way until these issues has been resolved regarding the plugin for LR5, correct?

Also not sure how I could add the cr2hdr 20-bit UEF file on my desktop per your suggestion in the video you just sent me?

Thanks again for the follow-up and can't wait to hunt down some serious 2.5k dual-iso with the 5D3 and give this EOS-M a break. (can't stand the hot/dead pixels EOS-M produces!)

Perhaps I'm in sort of a 'hybrid' mode between the 5D3 & EOS-M... Preserving the shutter counts along!