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Has this been abandoned?

Any idea how close we are to a stable build?
I have to say, it feels like the old 1100D has been forgotten 

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Just saw your post this morning now (after I tried below).

At first I thought it might be the battery, because it was getting flat, so I charged it overnight and tried again this morning.
I put the ML card in again but nothing. It didn't appear to be there. I know it was on there because when I put the card in the LED flashes once.

Anyway, I did the firmware update thing again (the ML installation) and it seemed to go OK. The green menu came up telling me ML was installed etc. So I turned the camera off and on, and again - nothing. I pressed the Av key a few times quickly and eventually the menu came up. I turned the camera off and on again, but this time no amount of pressing would bring up the menu.

Have to go to work this morning so will try again later.

(ps, am using build from the 12th)

Had some weirdness trying to use it today.
I had put another blank card in without ML and it worked fine (without ML running of course).
When I switched back to the card with ML on it, it wouldn't run when I pressed the AV button. I knew it was on there because of the little yellow numbers under 'ISO' on the screen, but the ML menu wouldn't come up, like it wasn't installed.

I had to press AV a few times in quick succession to get the ML to come up at all.

When it finally did, I couldn't seem to get the User defined Cinestyle to come up. It was like it had disappeared, but it came back a short time later.

So yeh, a bit weird.

UPDATE: I just put the card with ML on it back in (after having a non-ML card in it) and ML doesn't show up at all.

Windoze, OK, so I installed ML and it seems to have gone alright. All the menus are there etc.
I just want to make sure I understand as to how to set shutter speed, Aperture and ISO for movie mode.

I have Exposure Override *ON* from the main menu and have set my aperture, shutter speed and ISO to what i want them to be.

This means that now when i am in movie mode it is using my settings and not the apparent settings that display on the bottom of the screen while in movie mode/live view.

This appears to be the case, as the brightness does not change whether I am pointing it to the window (very bright) or into shadow.

I like your pic of the moon, too.
I tried shooting the moon using the kit 70-300mm (at 300MM) and could only get this close -

https://josb.jux.com/1234564

The 130 pictures that it did take were great, though!  http://pinterest.com/pin/459437599456549748/

Wow, that looks great!
How did you get the trees in there? Are they light painted?
Or did you start shooting earlier when it was lighter?
I'd love to try and get some pics like this.

And if you put a new, blank card in, the camera just won't use ML at all right?

All sounds a bit too complicated for me at the moment.

Maybe I'll just wait for a stable release that takes you through the steps.

In that documentation are install notes.  In the install notes it says:

There are two ways of running user code on Canon DSLR cameras:
1. Using the update process with a .fir file, which must be digitally signed.
2. Using the bootdisk process: the autoexec.bin file is loaded and executed. This file
does not have to be signed, but the bootdisk flag must be enabled in the camera.

If what I've read before is correct, then as long as you've already gotten it to work with a .fir file, then the flag has been set inside the camera and it should be able to execute the .bin file.  If you haven't gotten it to work before, then I would assume you would need to find the correct .fir file first.  (You can find one in the archives.)

So you definitely need a .fir file to run ML?
It won't just install via the autoexec.bin file?

nanomad, I downloaded the new build (2.3)
Not sure if I will risk installing it yet (I have never installed ML), but if I do, what version of firmware is required for the 1100D?

I looked on my camera, and I have 1.0.5 installed at the moment.

ps, I've been looking over the documentation -

Is it possible to get 60 frames per second filming with the 1100D?
Normally we are limited to 24fps or 30fps in the menu.
I see there is an override in ML, but it mentions that overcranking doesn't work very well.

Windoze, the video looks great!
I like the idea of saving the shutter from wear and tear - that is one of the reasons I hadn't done any time lapse work on the T3. It is quite new and I didn't want to just treating it like a workhorse.

What is the "f/n" you mention in the settings?

I'm looking forward to installing ML, but too scared just yet 

Thanks. Your pics look great Windoze!
Yeh, I don't have a tracker. Plus it is hard to find clear nights here at the moment (it is Winter here).
I'll be looking to get out and trying to take some more pics when a clear night rolls around.

@nanomad and alex - thanks for all your hard work!
I haven't installed ML yet but I plan to when it is stable

When I set it for time lapse, I can set it so that there's a second or two delay between the end of the last shot and the start of the next.  The mirror is flipping up as soon as the exposure is over.  I hear the tiniest noise when the picture actually starts, so I'm already getting the effect of MLU, but I have to be in Liveview to do it.  I'm personally using it for astrophotography and I have a homemade tracker to keep the stars at pinpoints.  (I can use these sets I create for time lapse and/or for stacking.)  Being able to flip off the LCD in Liveview would allow me to extend the time of my time lapse sessions dramatically.  I shoot high ISO at 50mm with an f/1.8 lens, so that slap at the start of the pics can be hell when photographing the stars in the night sky.

I'm just starting to experiment with astro as well. I have a 50mm 1.8 but haven't tried it yet. What ISO do you recommend with the 50mm? I am assuming you use the aperture at 1.8? I was using the 18-55 at 18mm on the lowest aperture and a shutter speed of 30 seconds and ISO of 1600 (as recommended in the e-book 'Shooting Stars').
I'm still wondering what the best way is to combat noise. Do you do any stacking?

(Sorry for the diversion in the thread).

Yay! 
I haven't installed it yet. My camera is quite new and I'm kinda afraid of bricking it.
Think I will wait for a stable version.

@nanomad, will it be possible with ML to manually change the ISO, shutter speed and aperture on the 1100D in video mode?
At the moment it is not possible to alter them manually, they are more or less chosen automatically.

It would be nice to choose them ourselves.