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Am I right in thinking that development has now switched to the Raw Video Build?

No doubt they're working on it but don't pester them it'll just bug them and to be honest I for one don't mind waiting as when it does come out then I'll have to be hassled by Canon about using a third party battery

Confirmed here too - downgrade is possible.

1.2.1 does advise about third party batteries but allows them anyway (or at least mine did) - I do wonder if this could be overridden though.

Hi,

Has anyone played around with splash\water drop art using ML to trigger?

If so could you offer a little advice.

Ta.

Just dropped back to 1.1.3 and for the first time it worked

Thanks guys I'll have to have a play around - its the first time I've seen it since I had it on the 60D and it looks to have changed a fair bit.

Just read on CanonRumours that the new firmware is very likly to be by the end of this month - http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=14147.0

For once I hope the firmware comes a little later as it will no doubt knock the release of ML back

hehe, loved the TM

Thanks for the guide - I tried it using last nights build - magiclantern-v2.3.NEXT.2013Mar30.60D.550D.600D.50D.500D.5D2.1100D, sadly it didn't work, in fact the only thing it did was disable liveview.

I will confess to not doing the last step to ensure it autoboot, which I'm glad about actually.

It may have been just that build, but I did note the lack of 5D3 in the title.

The card was a previously working boot enabled card and I could load the firmware okay.

I'm not looking for help, I'm just reporting back what happened to me - thanks again for the guide though, no doubt it will be of use.

EDIT - I tried a couple more times and saw a message saying enableboot then a :-) followed by frozen or in one case an error 80.
I would suggest we hold off playing for now, or at the very least try a different build.
Even on the occasions where the firmware loaded and didn't lock it the liveview was disabled and the delete icon did nothing so I never saw a menu to try anything else.

I think people are just excited by the feature and keen to try it out.

Also on the forums I usually frequent there have been a few extra mentions of ML in relation to this and many people don't know where to start at compiling a bin file or have the confidence in case they get it wrong (myself included if I'm honest)

Obviously we all very much appreciate all the effort put into the development (well I damn well hope so!) and are just not so good at expressing this without looking like total suck ups.

Have to say really impressed you're including DotTune too - this is the sort of things applications are great at.

Well, I saw this card in Amazon's Black Lightning deals - Transcend 32 GB 400x Compact Flash  - I seem to recall this one working so have ordered.

Sadly can't load mine since alpha 3 - just down to CF card though - can someone confirm that a "bad" CF card will stop loading as I'm not 100% sure.

Payday approaches and I'd like to get playing with alpha 3, but before I can I have to find a cheap decent sized CF card that passes the test.

I'm based in the UK, any suggestions?

thanks.

Cheers Alex, I only have the 5D3 but I'll upgrade to another card on payday, they're not as expensive as I seem to remember, better that than sometime deep into a project

- Kingston 16 GB 266x CF -> fails

I too have this card (its my only CF) and it fails.

I can't afford to buy another just now and have never had an issue with it having taken hundreds of images and a fair few videos.

Can you tell me what its testing for (sorry if I missed this answer somewhere in the thread), also despite obviously loading as it tells me on every screen that my card failed I cannot access the menu via the erase button as before.

Also is there a definitive list of safe CFs out there somewhere so when I do get a new one there isn't a nasty surprise.

Same here - very well done 

Cheers - would be interesting to see, although obviously as a lower priority.

Focus peaking is based on D2xy, so:
- biased for edges: that's exactly d2xy, and the algorithm is described here: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=56246.0
- biased for fine details: it's second derivative (d2xy) minus first derivative (what was d1xy). Rationale: strong edges (with high contrast) are very likely to be false positives, so this setting will try to filter them out and only look for textures.

So far so good - no issues at all for me

One question about focus peaking - I see there are two methods now as I don't recall edge from when I had it on the 60D, but in the article you pointed to there was this image (below) - do you think this sort of display is possible as it would be a lot easier to see at a distance or in sunny conditions.

I would be happy to have ML working with either card option - whichever works best. It will very difficult to please everyone in this regard so perhaps stability and function should be the overriding factor.

Agreed - given what they're getting (most likely for free) surely they can stump up for a card they can use for images too!

My 5D Mark III arrived today

Excellent - great news indeed - its a good body isn't it?

I just read here that Alex has a 5D3 (here: http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=8807.15) - is this true?

I hope so - btw Alex - great camera isn't it

I have put a little in the pot for this, however a very kind member here (vijaymukhi712) has put $200 into the pot, now not all of us have that kind of money spare but if all of us that are interested put what we can afford in then we'll have this thing licked in no time...

Now where is my speech and soap box...

That is very kind, thank you Vijay - thats us all a step closer and I'm sure Alex and the team don't mind getting a shiny camera either

I know what you mean about camera companies learning, for years now I've said that they should take a long hard look at what they are doing here and integrate the features into their cameras - well apart from audio graphs which they have nicked - imagine if they did what the normal chap(ess) on the street could do and it would put them miles ahead of the competition instead of stagnating it.

Cheers vijaymukhi712 - that will have made a decent dent in the needed funds (or will when you donate) - I wish I had the spare cash to stump up that kind of money but if everyone puts in whatever they can afford I think we can get there pretty quickly.