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Thanks everyone! I'm amazed by how fast those answer came considering how old the camera is.  I guess I'll need to have a better look and decide if it's worth keeping the two 7Ds. From what I get here I'm thinking a more modern tool might be better for our current project. That said I'd love to experiment a bit, though now that I think of it the price of a new memory card is perhaps more than I'm willing to spend.

I loved using the 7Ds for wildlife photography. Even though it was a heavy toy I it up many mountains and on many multi day hikes in the Pacific NW. I even took one and 5 lenses around Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, New Zealand and Australia on a 6 months trip in 2012. Bullet proof cameras! I probably should have sold at least one of them in 2012... 

Hi all, haven't been on the ML forums in years but I've got two 7D Mark I and I'm thinking Magic Latern might be useful for a new project. I've just spent many hours trying to figure out what is possible with ML these days and there is so much info on here... I'm not sure if I'm wasting my time in 2020 or of I'm on the right track with trying to give a new life to the gear we already own...


Question 1: I can't seem to find a clear answer for is what memory card we need.  We have old Sandisk extreme 32GB at 60 MB/s. I understand these would limit what we can do with magic lantern.  If I want to upgrade, what would you recommend? Do I need the 160mb/s Sandisk or would the 120 MB/s do just fine? I would rather get the cheapest cards that would work and be reliable. Also, Would you recommend 128GB over 64GB?

Question 2: I'm assuming it's somewhere in the forum.... but if someone has time and wants to help I'm wondering if ML would also allow us to use our 7D cameras and get a clean HDMI feed? And if so, what can be expected and for how long it might work? My spouse would like to setup a home studio to add a live classes to her online course business and wondering if we should get new cameras or if we can manage with what we already have. I came across a few posts that makes me believe it works but wondering if it's a good solution for our need. Anyone has experience with this? We would need to also purchase an HDMI capture card and after this post I'm going to have a look at the new Elgato products.

Question 3: What firmware version would you recommend for A) Quality recording of dialogues/interviews B) Quality recording for city/wildlife C) Webcam use with HDMI feed. I'm assuming different firmwares might be needed?

In the mean time I'll keep reading the forums and watching YouTube examples.... I was just about to see if I could sell the 7Ds but perhaps there is still life in them... haven't filmed videos since 2014 but just upgraded my PC and reactivated my Adobe Creative Cloud... so much catching up to do.

Thanks for your time