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Unless I'm mistaken, ML hasn't come to a Canon camera made after 2013. What odds that it will come to one made in 2018? It'd require significant interest from the community (perhaps that exists), a significant time investment from those who have developed ML for other cameras, and a lengthy Beta testing period.

Since the camera market has begun to include affordable small cameras, some of which can shoot RAW (i.e. Sigma FP), I can't see ML on the M50 happening.

I only have an eos m so can't really say but from what i've seen, both cameras can produce terrible and amazing footage

That's true. If you get the exposure wrong in camera or miss a beat on ordinary operator things like composition, Magic Lantern won't save your footage. I have seen terrible and amazing footage from my EOS M, but the "amazing" shots make me want to go out and shoot with it. You can get magic shots like this, for example (courtesy of ZEEK): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5YeZfvpee8

Thus far when I've shot with the 5Diii (even having used the same M31 LUT as in the example above), I've thought my footage has looked "OK," and other 5Diii footage I've seen on Vimeo and YouTube looks just "OK" to me. The best I've seen so far is from Andrew Reid: https://vimeo.com/66033769

The difference that I subjectively perceive, at this point, is that it's easier to find a more "vintage-filmic" look from the EOS M, but then I need to shoot with the 5Diii more and play around with it because it doesn't make sense that it would produce a less cinematic image than a cheap mirrorless camera.

Alright Walter. If asking for others experiences is inappropriate, then I'll remember not to produce another thread like this.

I didn't post this thread to provoke or even to offer a firm opinion. I simply wanted to gauge a few experiences from people here who had used ML on both EOS M and the 5Diii.

I've seen lots of online clips from both. Ive used both cameras with ML for promo videos at work (though I'm not a pro filmmaker or videographer). I have wondered if the 5Diii is a little softer by comparison, even with maximum sharpening in the MLV app. Besides that, the EOS M can have a certain filmic "look" to it. I haven't yet thought that about my 5Diii footage even though I use the same MLV app settings. But no, I haven't recorded a direct comparison which would aid this thread. I moreso again wanted to see what other users had found in their shooting experience.

The YouTuber I mentioned posts on these boards but I didn't want to name him since he may not want to be asked to give an account for his comment to me a while back that he found the EOS M "more cinematic."

Off-topic: If we weight in all arguments ... M is easily adaptable to different mounts because of shorter flange distance.

Yeah, the "M" allows access to more vintage lenses on account of that.

Are we talking H.264 or mlv/raw recording?
And at least a link to said youtuber would reduce guessing a bit ...

RAW recording.

It was in the comments section of a video, and I can't recall which video.

I picked up a 5Diii for a bargain price ($450 AUD) not long ago as a complement to my EOS M, but the image that I can so far get from it has a lacklustre look about it. (I'm using the 1080p mode, not the higher resolution ones.)

One other YouTuber said that, having tried a number of ML cameras, he actually liked the EOS M more than the 5D Mark iii; that the former, he found, had a more cinematic look.

Despite the image issues I had with the EOS M, I have liked the images it can produce.

What are your experiences and thoughts? For anyone who has tried Magic Lantern on the EOS M and the 5Diii, do you prefer the image quality on the M or the 5Diii?

This could be really helpful. I'm going to try it. Thanks Danne.

And thanks for your work and the great EOS M builds.

Hi all,

What are your best-recommended settings for the MV1080 46/48fps mode?

I'm using a recent Danne built and I start with the following base Canon settings:
24fps, 1080p

If I set ML camera to then "Kill Global Draw," let the resolution sit at 1736x976, and set the bitrate to 14-bit lossless, I get about 2.5 seconds on MV1080 46/46 and some corrupted pink frames.

I've tried to lower the resolution to 1600x900 but found that the "pink frames" increased, and when I then set it to 12-bit lossless, the whole image became corrupted.

Should I try changing the aspect ratio from 16:9 to something else to help avoid the pink frames? Or should I lower the bitrate to 10 bit? Or something else?