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Some of my indie film friends are debating about this - so I thought I'd ask. What is the colorspace of ML RAW on a DLSR camera like the 7D? Is it still the original 4:2:0 that you get with H.264 compression, or does it improve?

I have tried searching the forums with keywords and couldn't find an answer. Would a 7D with ML RAW be suitable for green screen work?

Hey Everyone,

I keep seeing tearing/shearing in the RAW video off my 7D, examples bellow. Using 64GB 100x Komputer Bay Cards, they all test at around 67-69mb/sec with the ML benchmark test on camera.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is for a "no-budget" production. Should I try installing a more recent version of ML, changing settings, or do you think it's the cards being too slow?


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Did this video to stress-test the camera with Magic Lantern RAW in the woods.

Difficult conditions with very bright sun, lots of texture in the leaves and bark, harsh shadows and glare on the water. I wanted to see how much information I could recover in the shadows and highlights in post production... but as you can see there is still a lot of clipping in both color and highlights. Lesson: ML RAW will not solve everything, and DSLR's still have limited dynamic range even if you capture all of it

Also note the stuck/dead pixels when watching full screen.

Hi all,

Looking to purchase a camera for continuous RAW recording on a film, need to be able to do takes at least a few minutes long, reasonably close to 1080HD. My question is 50D vs 7D... pros and cons?

FYI: the 5Dmk2, 5Dmk3, and BMPocketCam are outside of the budget.

Look forward to hearing about your experiences, thanks!

Hi all,

Love the amazing work that ML has been doing. I am in the process of putting together a "no budget" (under 10k) feature film, and looking to use a pair of DSLRs with ML to capture RAW footage. I currently have a pair of 60D cameras, but learned unfortunately too late that the resolution of the RAW files on the 60D is vastly different for a 6 second burst, and continuous 24fps recording.

I may now have to sell of the 60D's and purchase different cameras in order to get HD quality RAW footage in continuous shots... and I don't want to make another big mistake. What would be the best camera to go with? I was thinking about the 7D, but according to the "current capabilities" chart, there is still a question as towhether it can do 1728x972 at 24fps?

And if I had the 7D, or another DSLR, could I shoot long shots - say for 10 minutes straight in RAW with a sufficiently large card, or would there be some other technical obstacle?

Thank-you in advance for your help!

~Ariaelf