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Hi, I installed the Alpha release on my 70D (w) with serial starting with: #0280, made in JAPAN.

I did all the steps in multiple variations but never got the playback screen displaying the picture (taken before update) with the boot message... no luck!

Will wait until the update...

Thanks

Eduardo

Hi there! I'm considering getting a 5D2 to shoot video, I do short-films and some audio-visual art. I have seen that this camera, with no ML will record video with a bitrate near to 38mbps (correct me if I'm wrong). Can you push this over 100mbps with Magic Lantern? Does this bring any problem like overheating?

Do you think recording continuous raw video with this camera will also bring overheating problems?

And a last one... will I get better low light performance than with a 70D (wich is crop).

Thanks in advance!

That's a good advice Tom... I wish I considered that last year, but it's ok!

By the way, how do you think the 70D compares to the 5D2 in low light?

Thank you very much!

Hi again, thanks for all the information.

The lenses I'm using are all MF (I agree that AF for video is not a must, at lest for me). This are my lenses: Voigtlander Color Ultron 50mm 1.8 / Voigtlander Color Dynarex 135mm 4 / Ricoh RX Rikenon 28mm 2.8 / Tokina RMC 17mm 3.5. They are not "the best" but I really like them...

I think I will get the 5D2 instead of the 7D... I think some of my lenses will hit the mirror of a 5D2 so I will be using the mirror block option of the camera.

I'm still not sure how the 5D2 behaves in low light compared to the 70D, I'm watching some videos but can't find any comparision between 70D and 5D2, they seem to be cameras from very different eras...

Hi, all! I have been watching lots of videos and reasearching and found thethat same conclusion, instead of 50D or 7D I think I should get a 5D2 and a 1000x lexar memory. The thing is that, to do that, I will need to sell my 70D, can't have both... ShootMe, you are very right about the AF, despite I don't actually use AF lenses, I may be tempted in the future to use this fascinating feature.

Do you think a 5D2 with a 32gb lexar will be ok for short movies (raw)? I don't have any idea of how much time I can reccord in 32GB raw video, and if it would be entirely continuous. I can always dump all the memory into a laptop as long as the card gets full... I don't care, I just want to shoot raw

Another thing... what about raw and low light? Videos about 50d & 7d in very low light show more grain than H264. 5D2 is very old, I think 70D would be even better than the 5D2 in low light... maybe I don't know what I'm talking about?

Indeed it's a virtue... I'm about to sell my 70D to geta 5D2 (or maybe 50D)

Hello! Can you tell me (more or less) how much wil weight in memory, for example, 1 minute of raw video at 1856x928?

Just to be sure that I will be ok with a 1000x 32gb lexar card or if I need to get a bigger one.

Thanks !

I can also test stuff on my 70D if needed

Hello! I'm thinking on selling my 70D and getting a 7D and a fast CF card to use Magic Lantern for Raw video recording. I know that the 7D has faster write speed, about 72mb I think, while the 70D has around 40mb, what tells me that the 7D will always be better for raw video than the 70D.

I dont care about auto focus really, I use manual lenses and getting an autofocus lens is not on my plans.

I would like some advice before selling my camera. Is there any reason why I should consider satying with the 70D instead? Like noise levels, ISO response, bitrates... (70D has more bitrate than 7D [91 vs 40] but with ML I can push it and get same or more bitrate than the 70D, right?)

Thanks in advance!!

Its hard to know what is perfect for you as these decisions revolve around budget.  If you like DSLR and not BMCC ($3K)to shoot raw then the champ is the 5D MIII ($3.3k), it has the biggest sensor shoots raw that is motion picture quality, but its glass (3 f/2.8 zooms, and 4 primes) run around $8K.  Then the second question is do want to pull focus? If that's your thing then a 70D is not a help.  The setup that some like is the 5DMIII to shoot raw, and the 70D for its continuous auto focus.  So for a raw shooter the 70D is a B cam, used for certain shots (ETTTL and color graded to match).  So I think there is no decent replacement in video for the 70D, unless you like to pull focus manaully. Now if the 5D is to rich for your blood, then the best aps-c glass raw is the 7D (used about $750) it has some banding issues which limits your ISO (meaning very low light is more challenging, but some claim the post software can fix it?).  Now if that's too steep there is the 50D ($500 used) its a great picture but no audio so that its own issue.  As for VAF you will need that for all canon DSLRs except perhaps the 5DMIII, and the T3i/600d and the 70D (which have 3X zoom mode which removes aliasing).  So look at budget and focus pulling ability before you decide on the 70D.  As for 70D raw, well that may not be for a year (its not for sure).   

Thanks! I understand the point. I'm using manual focus lenses, ver old ones and I'm not really interested in automated focusing. With ML Raw the 7D can do better resolution videos than the 70D would with its around 40Mb/s... so, the last point would be the image qualty, noise and how both cameras work in low light situation, wich I think they do almost the same as I far as I have seen on youtube videos...

I'll must get a 7D from a friend or rent one and just check it out myself I think...

Hey, thanks for posting all this stuff... I have been a while searching and doing my own investigation with cameras. I have been using the 70D for almost half a year, took almost 10K pictures and maybe 40 or 50 hours of video.

Now I'm thinking if it may be or not a good idea to sell the 70D and get the 7D with a hi-speed memory and a VAF filter to film raw... I don't know if it would be a good desicion. What do you think I should consider to stay with the 70D?

Thanks !

Programmer here... I have experience in C/C++ and a lot of other programming languages, but I have never programmed anything for "hardware" (sorry I don't know how to express this idea in english). How do you think I may get started to be of help? I also have a 70D.

Which is a measly 11.375 mB/s

I'm a little bit confussed now, I understand that, for example, the 7D can do continuous RAW video at 1728 x 972 with a data-rate of 70Mb/s. Shouldn't be better with 91 Mb/seg? (or is it that the 7D requires not 70Mb/seg but 70MB/seg to do that continuous raw videos?)

Thanks for pointing that out!

Thanks !!!

Hi everybody. I'm about to but a 5D mark iii and planing to use it with ML to get RAW video (for movie making). I would like you to recommend me a good memory card (mark, model, speed) to get the best from the camera / ML.

Thanks in advance!

Hi everybody, another 70D user here

Is there any clue on what is the max bitrate or transfer speed for the 70D already? As this is the most important spec to consider the RAW capabilities of the camera. I saw this on a website, It's sayin it can do 91mb/seg or am I wrong?

"(...) New ALL-I codec records at: 91 mb/sec bitrate for best video quality."

URL: http://www.smartreview.com/canon-eos-70d-dual-pixel-af-dslr-camera (under features)