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Congrats to the ML team on the recent success with raw on the 5D mark 3! I read that you guys will try to port it over to the mark 2 and 6D next. Do you think this feature will be possible on the M eventually, particularly the 1:1 crop? Thanks.

1%, I did a bit of searching but I don't really understand what af prop adjustment is or what to do to fix the shut down bug.

As for timelapse, the intervolameter works flawlessly but fps override has vertical steaks with lowlight like with the example  I previously posted, not sure why that is.

The first post mention audio is not ready and things like trap focus may never work.

I don't think the menu needs to be simplify, there's a lot in ml I don't understand but I just don't mess with those features. After all, ml wasn't design for any one person, so what seems complicated to me might be useful for others. What would be convenient is if I could adjust shutter speed beyond the Canon limit using the dials without going in the ml menu at all.

One thing I noticed with the EOS M is that if I leave the battery in, it sometimes drains it which was not an issue with my 5D. I do pop the battery out after each use. One of my batteries recently stopped working altogether. It won't hold a charge anymore and it was not left in the camera when it stopped working. I don't know if this is an affect of ML at all but I thought I point it out anyway in case there's a bug.

Yes, alex. My footage is worse but I believe it's the same issue. Here's mine:
https://vimeo.com/58083444

I was shooting a timelapse using FPS override and it left these nasty vertical line over the entire frame, particularly noticeable when it got darker. I don't remember my exact setting but I'm pretty sure I was using low ISO like 100 or 200 so it's not just noise. I think I was doing 0.25 FPS and 0.15 FPS. Anyone else experience this or know why this might be happening? I'll upload footage later tonight.

Yep your first firmware flash must be done on a <=32gb card in order to set the flag inside the camera. After that's done you can use any sized card (e.g 64gb) provided you've also prepared that card using the tool (forgot name). But yeh... need to beg/borrow/steal a smaller card for the first flash.

Thanks, it works for me now. Everything looks pretty good. Here's what I think can be improve:

1) halfpress shutter for magic zoom (not Liveview zoom) just like it was with the 5D.

2) The canon display for exposure, record time, and battery appears when making adjustments and it seems redundant with the ML display. I don't supposed we can turn off Canon display but perhaps we can have a simple screen layout without the ML info.

In terms of pulling up the ML menu, I like the idea suggested with hitting menu twice but I also wouldn't mind sacrificing the the exposure lock (*) or shooting mode button for ML menu (or both so we can have a button for shortcuts). The two finger tap is not bad though, I notice I can stick my thumb diagonally across the screen with pretty much my palm acting as a second finger to pull the menu up pretty quickly. Everything else looks pretty solid, can't wait until the audio functions are working. Thanks and keep up the excellent work.

It's not working for me. I'm using a Sandisk Ultra 64GB and I'm prepping the card with MacBoot to make DSLR-bootable but when I try to update the firmware in camera, I ran into the same issue jimijam had earlier. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Really want to test it out. Thanks for all the hard work.

Good to know. Still don't see 3-10x crop, hopefully that can be ported over with ML at some point.

I just got the EOS M. Unfortunately, there's no 3-10x digital zoom even though it was available in dpreview. I also don't see a menu setting for updating firmware, does this mean there's no hope for magic lantern?

User configurable would be awesome if possible. I'm in support of not removing features rather here's what I'd like to see for simple mode and removing clutter:

Audio:
Analog gain
Digital gain (agc can be set to on here to reduce clutter)

Liveview:
Zebra
Peak
Magic zoom

Movie:
Fps override
Hdr video

Shoot (which I think would be more aptly named photo (versus movie)):
Hdr bracketing
Intervalometer
Bulb timer

Help: keep as is.

Essentially, i proposed features you need while shooting be accessible in simple mode, the other feature I imagine would be set once and be kept the same for the entire shoot. In advance mode:
Liveview and display seem like it can be one menu
Headphone on and output can be combined