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#2
Yes please, post a video of the adapter working in the CF reader.
#3
Good luck. Hope you'll succeed, this is an important step to make raw video workable.
#4
General Chat / Re: Kickstarter Campaign
June 13, 2013, 10:52:06 PM
Sharks are cruising around
#5
Quote from: PeteTomov on June 13, 2013, 01:22:33 PM
6000mAh ~2 hours at max SDD speed. At ~90MB/s the battery should last a lot longer, probably at least twice that. Also the SSD will be powered on and off by the camera so it shouldn't draw any power when not recording.

A bit strange.
@ 5v, a 6000mAh batterie gives you 30w during one hour.
As the writing consumption of most of the  SSD is around 3w, it's not 2 but 10 hours that this battery will last.
The converter borad might consume a little bit I guess but it's not significant and in the other hand the SSD won't write continuously.
Your manufacturer didn't advised you that you can save load and space at the battery level ?

Need to see serious proofs before investing money here.

#6
Transcend 128Gb 1000x is very slow. I've got 2 of them and none is faster than 68-70Mb/s write. Impossible to record decent raw files. I'm very disappointed, it's a waste of money, no more than 5% faster than 70% cheaper cards.
#7
@g3gg0
As I'm in France I can send you mine if it can help - (this one : http://store.calexium.com/fr/316-prolongateur-compact-flash-29-cm.html)
I give up trying I'm not enough skilled.
#8
As I touched the limits of my (small) competences (I'm just a documentary filmmaker) I talked to an electronic company able to make prototypes. They say that what we are trying to do is possible but they need the exact electrical specs of the cf host in 5D3. Do someone know where to find that ?
#9
Is a video could help you?
#10
@g3gg0
As english is not my native language, I'm not sure to understand all what you means. Sorry I the answer is not what you was expecting.

Yes the camera boots but like if there was no card instead.

The adapter is not working in the camera, but works in the computer with Lexar CF usb3 reader. I'm wondering why.
I can't test/check the card outside with ML because the module is impossible to load, err 70, and without module, no card test line in the menu.
#11
@g3gg0
I can't have the external CF card recognized by the camera with CF extender. For me finding a workable solution just to get out of the camera is the first inescapable step to solve before thinking to convert to sata and power up.
I've told the problem to two electronic companies in France with no answers at that time.
As it works with a computer, but half the speed of direct plugging, I don't really believe in ZIF solutions any more.
For me the route now is soldering a 50 pin ribbon to an opened CF and temporarily to a regular CF socket at the other side just to check if it works when the camera finds what it's supposed to find. For the moment I don't have time to stars this job. Hope next week.
#12
I just have the CF ZIF extender connected to a 32 CF outside. I would like to have this simple thing working before going to more complicated.
Is it a problem that ZIF has only 40 pins to link the 50 pins inside female CF to the outside 50 pins male CF socket ?
#13
Amazing ! When I turned the camera on, Canon CEO's face appeared on the screen and he told me : "You're on the wrong way Son. Repent and go to buy a C500. Now !". I was trembling but the courage came to me and I was about to answer him that I don't have this huge amount of K€ and that he is the one who stole when he cripple his products but, unfortunately, the camera crashed.



Otherwise, it seems to behave normally except that it's not possible to load the modules.
First time it crashed.
Second time this appeared in the left bottom of the screen

props at : 0x000000000
cbr    at : 0x000000000

and stays there.
When getting out of ML the left part of the scree stays as you can see whatever I do..




An other time it says : please send crash LOG 14 then 15 then up to 21 to ML devs, before turning off by itself.
#14
I was thinking to do the same thing, going directly from CF to IDE.
You have special equipment to solder such small pins ?
#15
Hi Samuel, Can I ask you which CF extender did you choose ?
On mine, the link between the card and the exterior socket is a 40 pins ribbon. Some connectors are merged (surely the grounds ones). It works in a Lexar usb 3 card reader on my computer (with slow transfer rate) I don't understand why it doesn't on the camera.
I would like to try something with all the pins directly connected to the external socket but it seems to do not exists.
#16
1 ML may22 on a small SD card running
2 CF extender inserted with 32 Go Sandisk previously formatted by the camera
3 "Read CF details" launched
=>
1 ML menu close within 1 seconds
2 Screen turns black (working but showing nothing) in two other seconds and all buttons and wheels are frozen
3 Turn off the camera but screen remains black
4 Have to remove the battery to shut it down

But... now when I insert the extender without the SD card, the camera turns on after 5 seconds and ask to format the card. When doing it, it says it's impossible.
#17
I tried but nothing happened it still says no card in camera
It's possible with the 1DC but unfortunately the 1DC is out of the game :)
#18
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Quote from: g3gg0 on May 30, 2013, 02:07:00 PM
can you run this plugin with your disk attached?
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5471.msg36699#msg36699

I can load it with the card in the camera but I can't do it using the CF extender, the camera do not turn on
#19
Sorry, yes the link is working but it's a page of signs and a lot of �. I don't know what to do with that...
#20
Thanks g3gg0

I use a 5D3.

I also have a 1DC.
With this one the camera can be started with the door opened but it says it can't read the card and ask to format it but when doing so it says it can't do it.

I don't understand where your link is pointing to.

#21
No, with a regular CF I can start the camera with the door opened pushing the contact with a small piece of plastic. With the extender it doesn't works. The camera recognize it's not a normal CF.
#22
I tried the extender in a Lexar USB 3 CF card reader and it works, the card at the other side of the ribbon mount on the computer. That let me think that Canon could have prevented this kind of things. If that's not the case, how to solve it ? Did someone tried another CF adapter ?
Otherwise, with a 32Gb Sandisk Extreme 60MB/s it is as fast as the card can write, about 60 Mo/s but with a Transcend 128Gb 1000x it drops to 40 Mo/s.
A lot of mysteries...
#23
Bad news, when the CF extender is inserted, with the door open, nothing happens when I push the small contact. In the same situation, with a regular CF or with nothing, it starts up ! Someone has an idea ?
#24
I dont know if it achieve the the 150 Mo we are targeting, it's not specified on the website and I did not received all the parts to make a test (one won't be here before june 8th!).
I just can see that he bus is really thin...
#25
It's not the good CF gender :(