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No.

There are plenty of other 70D threads in which you will find discussions about it.

I don't even have the camera in my hands yet

I'll make sure to update everyone when I get going

The blog is something I'm strongly convinced I should do, if nothing to help me keep track of what needs to be done (both for the 70D and for "ML" internals).

Does anyone have suggestions for a small blogging engine? Even something without comments is fine (I''m thinking of using the forum for that)

I think that the best would be just wordpress. You'd have plenty of possibilities if you would like to make it something more than just a place for notes of progress, but it's still quite simple to use from scratch.

And I hope that you won't get tired or annoyed with all these questions about the progress.,,

yes, it should be possible to route audio via the usb/av port.
It's not something that is doable in a short time frame though. We don't even know the maker of the chip

You're a magician, you know?


Btw. I've placed inquiry about the wifi pairing problem with the PC to Polish Canon support yesterday and I've received the answer, that they are aware of the problem, but the only solution is to go through the creator in the camera every time you want to pair the camera to the PC. Pro canon support to $1k body:)

Everything is doable provided enough time and a developer with a camera.

What connectors does the camera have externally? I guess there's no headphone out right?

No, there is no headphone out. We've got HDMI out, USB (with integrated video-out) and mic-in. I assume that mic-in is physically not suitable for that application, so we are left with HDMI or video-out for this. Maybe dev will tell us if thats even theoretically possible with ML:)

can I emphasise to any of the devs that all we really need ML for on the 70D at the moment is to allow the use of headphones
I understand how much work a full port is but that's all we need, wants and dreams can wait(raw vid etc can wait till dev time is an option)

I'd be happy to pay £10 to be able to monitor audio (i'm sure there are at least 100 70d owners who need just this feature, £1000 for a few days work must be tempting, there could be 1000 owners....)

Aprill fools day was yesterday man... How do you imagine this would work?

Can you describe the exact procedure? I also started wtfpairing on my laptop, but could not get the camera to connect :-o

Sure, hope this will help. On camera it's pretty straightforward - go to wifi menu, select wifi function->Remote control (EOS Utility) and follow on screen information to connect to your router until you see the message "start pairing devices". Dont click OK yet!

Then on PC go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Canon\EOS Utility\WFTPairing\ (or different if you installed somewhere else ofc), right click on WFT FirewallSettings, select "run as administrator". Next in the same way run as administrator WFTPairing. Now click OK in the camera to start pairing and in that program you should see after a few seconds your camera.  If you don't keep the WFTPairing window active and on camera press Cancel and OK to start pairing once again.
At least it worked for me just now (I did the procedure writing it down).

Also I first connect to camera with the WFTPairing, and after that I start EOS Utility (I keep EOS Utility not running during pairing).

//EDIT:
Damn, I've found out that I'm unable (yet) to connect to the PC using the saved settings, it seems like I need to go through the whole procedure of creating settings set to connect to the PC, what a disaster from Canon...

If you want to link the camera with the laptop it is possible to link using the EOS Utility but you have to connect both the camera and the laptop through a Wifi router not directly like using the EOS app on the iPhone or iPad.

It works, but you need to manually start program WFTPairing on the PC, in my case I had to run this as administrator and also I had to run WFT FirewallSettings to make it working. I don't think that this thing is in the manual though:P

What about Uncrop feature for not-FF cameras?

I'm grabbing my 70D today, I'm not sure how many things from ML I'll be missing, but if there will be something I could do (I mean something which will not destroy my brand new camera;) ) to help with the development to this dslr, then please tell.