Topics

Just throwing around ideas, getting an idea of limitations. External recording via CF to SSD is not possible because of the bottleneck in data and processing power of the 5d Mark III.

Just some ideas based on things ive seen.

1st Idea to throw out there
Theres an DSTWO cart which can be used for game emulation on the nintendo 3ds. Now it has its own CPU built into it to help leverage more computing power for running those emulators.

Is the camera already attempting to write to the CF card by the time the data gets there? Would there be a possible way to circumvent writing of the data and instead make it a straight data transfer to a secondary CPU built into a custom CF card that could leverage a separate processor for writing the data to the card or even to an SSD via an interface like SATA.

2nd
Direct modifications to the 5d Mark II or III would be the only way to make this possible.

So basically you would need to engineer a custom firmware via Magic Lantern or whatnot and actually remove the CF card slot and circumvent the data transfer cap in general. So more of a hardware modification.

From what i've gathered SSD writing via CF card slot just is not going to happen.

I had Magic Lantern installed on the 5d mark III and II before RAW came around. I dont recall all these warnings about bootflags at the time. Is that something new, or would that be something that I just did not notice the last time around. If so is that what has changed about the code? So installing cannot be undone.

I dont seem to recall that being a problem in the past, however is there a build that precedes the bootflag requirements? I just want to use magic lantern for the audio control mostly.

Thanks in advance!

Hey posting here since i figured someone might be interested.



Im selling my RedrockMicro Black Ultracage Professional DSLR mount.

RedrockMicro Website

Upgraded to a Blackmagic Camera so i dont have a need for it. Its in excellent condition and im including the HDMI wireLock which is really helpful when using the DSLR with an external monitor.

15% new retail price. Redrock doesn't have much for sales if ever so I thought it was a pretty decent amount off.

Ebay Link

Let me know or message me on ebay thanks!

Since Magic Lantern has access to the cropped sensor ability with RAW recording format. I was wondering if it would be possible to work in a way to shoot photos with a cropped sensor.

Just wondering if this is possible, been doing alot of anamorphic lately and having the ability to to have less vignetting would be nice.

For instance, you could set a low quality recording of jpegs while shooting a movie that could be saved to a separate card like the eyefi card and possibly remote transfer to the ipad or to a server, and technically be able to then view it almost real time.

Very helpful for video, ive seen security cameras use these live thumbnails to make a "like" live web page that works on mobile phones so that you can see what the camera is seeing.

Just a thought. Got a eyefi card and thought this would be the only way to make streaming video work.