I've just purchased a used Canon 7D for little over £200. After seeing various recommendations only mentioning that it is one of the best ASP-C cameras with support for magic lantern.
My understanding is that this is mostly due to the CF interface, supporting up to around 80MB/s RW through a decent UDMA card. I have used a 650D with magic lantern and found that 14-bit compressed footage to be really great. But as with many potential ML users, finding a reasonable up-to-date chart of each camera's capabilities with modern builds from '17-'18 has been difficult.
To 7D users, what can I expect from my 7D in terms of magic lantern performance? I apologise for the long post, I just have a lot of questions and I'd like to update my post with your feedback to help further potential 7D users understand what to expect from a recent ML build in 2018.
Is the 7D regarded as the best ASP-C ML camera because of the CF interface only? Or is there something else I'm not aware of. I'll update this post with my findings too once I have the camera - I'm not afraid to break it so I'll be adventurous.
The 650D, 700D and 100D appear to be better for ML right now it seems as they can make use of compressed raw and are more stable on the latest nightly branches.
My understanding is that this is mostly due to the CF interface, supporting up to around 80MB/s RW through a decent UDMA card. I have used a 650D with magic lantern and found that 14-bit compressed footage to be really great. But as with many potential ML users, finding a reasonable up-to-date chart of each camera's capabilities with modern builds from '17-'18 has been difficult.
To 7D users, what can I expect from my 7D in terms of magic lantern performance? I apologise for the long post, I just have a lot of questions and I'd like to update my post with your feedback to help further potential 7D users understand what to expect from a recent ML build in 2018.
- Is the maximum live-view resolution still 1728 x 972 (at 16:9) without crop_rec? Yes
- Is 14-bit compressed MLV supported? What about 12-bit compressed? Not right now
- What is the maximum resolution with crop_rec?
- Is there any way to do pixel binning instead of line skipping on the 7D?
Is the 7D regarded as the best ASP-C ML camera because of the CF interface only? Or is there something else I'm not aware of. I'll update this post with my findings too once I have the camera - I'm not afraid to break it so I'll be adventurous.
The 650D, 700D and 100D appear to be better for ML right now it seems as they can make use of compressed raw and are more stable on the latest nightly branches.