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Interesting test:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h6MPsjL7vc

Like I said, I already have a bunch of SD cards that I use with my NEX7. And at the time being I don´t really care about shooting RAW video. Just to make thins clear, I use my NEX7 for photography and my MarkII is exclusivity for video.

Hi guys,

     I have a bunch of SD cards that I use on my NEX7 and I fell a little reluctang in buying a bunch of CF cards for the MarkII. Does anyone here have ACTUAL PRACTICAL experience using SD cards on the MarkII (or MarkIII for that matter) with an SD to CF adapter?

What a great age we live in! It´s with the help of amazing people like the people we have here that "older" cameras are getting a new life span. Hopefully we´ll see RAW 24p video from the MarkII....or even uncompressed HDMI.

I´ve been trying out cinestyle and I´m very happy with the overall look. I´ll beging shooting a series tomorrow and I will use the MarkII and the NEX7 with a metabones speedbooster....so now I need to find a NEX7 profile to match the Cinestyle. "Neutral" like it says is the most neutral...but "Portrait" has visibly more detail...but at the cost of more grain.

The weird thing is that I´ve tried this before with the NEX7 and the sound was loud and clear. Exactly where does the ML soundmeter bar has to be for the sound to be so that I know the input level is acceptable? I will also do some tests without the comp and low cut.

Hi guys,

     This is a VERY informative thread and I´ve already learned a lot, but I still have some doubts.
      I´ve been doing some sound tests for a project I have coming up and I keep finding the sound too be too  low. I have very little experience with sound but let me explain how I´m setting things up:
      The audio-technica lavalier with the phantom power adapter goes into the Zoom H4N and then the split cable (attenuator + monitor cable) goes into the MarkIIs´ mic input. I´ve set the mic level on the Zoom to 100, I´ve upped the compressor and the and the low cut filters to diminish the possibility of picking up unwanted sounds (it´s an indoors shot but I have sound coming from a kids´ playground), then on the MarkII I´ve upped the gain on ML a little. When I´ve listened to the sound on my computer it was pretty clean but it was very very low. I have to confess that this was the first sound test I did with ML so I was not sure about where the soundmeter bar should be (I was GUESSING that when it changed color it meant it was peaking).
      Anyway, any thoughts and/or suggestions are welcome.

thanks in advance.

Hi guys,

     I have been using the Superflat picture profile and I was wondering if there is any other that has more latitude than this one?

thanks

It turns out the memory card reader was defective. I´ve exchanged it for a new one an all is well

I did it 3 times. I think it might be the card reader that is not working properly.
Is there anyway to copy ML to the root folder using the MarkII as a mass storage?

Hi guys,

     I´m trying to install Magic Lantern on my MarkII and it needs to be done from the Compact Flash memory card via memory card reader. I´ve bought a memory card reader today and when I tried to read from the 32gb CF memory card it said it needed to be formated but it shows only like 20GB. I went to windows´ disk management where I could see the CF card was unallocated. When I´ve tried allocating it without formating it the system told me "Data error (cyclic redundancy error)". Also, when I try to format it it won´t allow me the option to use FAT.
     I´ve put the card back in the MarkII and it reads it perfectly (and finds 29GB memory space).

     Any thoughts?

Share the love, bro. Where can we download this puppy?

Awesome. It would be pretty cool to have 4.2.2 and higher bitrate compression.
I did notice a little jerkiness in one or 2 shots.
Also, when I tried the application I cannot recall if weird resolution adapted the original resolution and if it cropped it...

 I´ve found it in here: http://forums.planet5d.com/threads/88322-Sample-of-5D-Mark-II-recording-via-USB-to-computer-harddisk

The guy said he was getting a 92.56 Mbit/s datarate!

I´ve been playing with it all day and other than the weird resolution, the app stops receiving image each time you go into the camera profiles or use the magnify functions (which a shame because it would be cool using the laptop monitor to focus and do small adjustments). If you guys look at the application you´ll see it´s something pretty simple. I´m guessing a skilled developer wouldn´t have much trouble using this code to come up with somethings a bit more robust with more options. It could be a great tool.

Thanks!

Hi guys,

        I´m new here so I´m not sure if this is the right place to post this, so MODS, please feel free to move it if necessary.
       While I was waiting for my CF Card to arrive I´ve started looking into ways of testing the MarkII by recording via USB. I´ve downloaded a program called "Extra Webcam" (http://extrawebcam.com/) that allows you to record directly from the camera via USB. I was able to select 24p and a couple of other options but the resolution I´ve got was 1024 X 680 (every 30 seconds I was getting more or less a 150mb file) . I was thinking that if such a simple little program allows to do this, then there must be others that allow you much more control. And if there isn´t it doesn´t look like a very hard thing for a programmer to do (bare in mind I´m not a programmer and this is just an assumption). 

Many thanks for the reply...but seriously, there are card restrictions even with stock MarkII??

Many thanks, bro.

Hi,

      I have a project coming up in less than 2 weeks and I won´t have enough time to order a Sescom audio monitor cable for my MarkII. Is this what I need to use the MarkIIs´ A/V cable to monitor the audio?:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-5mm-Female-Jack-Socket-to-2-Female-RCA-Phono-Adapter-/360322158117?pt=UK_Computing_Sound_Vision_Audio_Cables_Adapters&hash=item53e4dfce25

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gold-1-8-3-5mm-female-jack-to-2-RCA-female-jack-adapter-/280726325615?pt=US_Audio_Cables_Adapters&hash=item415c97c96f

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-5-mm-Female-To-2-RCA-Female-Audio-Adapter-Y-Splitter-/280540359129?pt=US_Audio_Cables_Adapters&hash=item41518229d9

Guys, sorry for being insistent but I usually buy everything from abroad (here in Brazil things are sometimes 5 times more expensive) but since my project will start in less than 2 weeks I cannot order from abroad and I need to get a CF Card RIGHT NOW! If I don´t intend to increase the bitrate will EVEN the SLOWEST CF Cards work?

Hi,

     I´ve just gotten my MarkII and I´m about to get some CF Cards. Is there any speed restriction to use it with Magic Lantern? Say, ML only works with memory cards that can write with a speed over a specific number? I didn´t see anything on the FAQ section so I gather it works even with the slowest cards out there.

Hi guys,

I want to install Magic Lantern on my MarkII and while reading the FAQ section their website I´ve that "Magic Lantern runs from the card, as an add-on over standard firmware". So I have 2 doubts:
1 - Whenever I shoot an entire day (which will mean I will have to use different memory cards) I will need to have ML on ALL cards?
2 - I also have a NEX7 as a travel camera and it generates several folders on the memory cards. Can this somehow interfere on running ML if I use the same cards on both cameras?