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Hello 5d2 forum folks,

I've been hanging out in the 50D forum for awhile but I think I'm ready to put the RAW on my 5D.  I know there are many builds out there but I'm wondering what is the latest "stable" build that people are liking.   Not looking for any frills more on the stable end.  Any links would be great, I know that the latest aren't on the main page.

Thanks All!!!!

Hello Forum folks,

I've been out of it for about a month.  I just wanted to get a consensus about the latest "solid" build you're liking.  I was running the July 11 build and I was pretty happy with that but that was awhile ago, not looking for anything crazy more on the stable end.  I've got the 32 and 64 gig KomputerBay cards.

Thanks All!!!!

Can you please post the link to Andy's Canon 50D guide? Thanks!

It's on the front page of EOSHD.com

It's very well done

Cinestyle is a LOG profile and raw is linear. There will obviously be a difference in how the unprocessed images look.

Are you exposing for raw with the raw histogram enabled? Have you tried auto ETTR?

Hey Andy,

Yeah I'm now using the raw histogram and I still feel it's coming in underexposed.  I just downloaded andy's 50D guide so for the next day I'll be trying to get my head around this.  I'll let you know what I find out. 

Thanks All

So Here are the two grabs from the previous post.  First is the H264 cine and the 2nd is the first thing I see in Cs5 when I open up a DNG still from the same greyscale shot in raw.

Thanks again

Hey Folks,

So here is a good one, I'm loving the raw but this one I can't quite figure this one out  So I shot and exposed for a greyscale chart  in both H264 Cinestyle and then a minute later clicked to shoot raw with the same settings:shutter 1/50,5.0, iso 160 cinestyle and here is what I got. The first shot is the H264 and it looks like what I expected. I then shot the identical chart in RAW converted in RawtoDNG and brought a still frame in CS5 s.  When I pull up the shot It looks at least 2-3 stops underexposed and as a default the brightness is defaulting to "50" already!!!!.  Yes I could crank up exposure but then I start adding noise. This must be something I am messing up.  The H264 is pretty close to what I see on the back of the camera and I'm making sure with the histogram i'm not crushing or blowing out. Really strange. I guess I expected a very similar Cine flat raw file. Could it be some thing in the ML setting that is crushing the image?

So This is the July 11th build with a 32gig Komputer card, Global Draw off and that's about it.  Creating DNG files with Raw2DNG and then I'm looking at raw dng file in cs5 and this is what I see,

What do you think?

Thanks in advance, loving the possibilities!!!!

Will try to put up stills tomorrow

Hello all 50D folks,

So far so good with my new 32 gig card as opposed to my first 128gig, from a week back ,but a couple of questions.  When I opened up one of the dng files in photoshop it seems to indicate that i have an 8bit file.  The other issue on the July 11th build is that I'm not having any luck on the 5X and 10X magnification recording, I seem to get a monochrome LV screen during REC.  With all these things still very happy.

Thanks again all

Thanks Guys for responding so quickly!!!

So i ordered the 32gig 1000X card today so I hope that takes care of my problems.

"Try this.  Getting up to 81.8mb/s on a 32GB Komputerbay 1000x now

Instead of Dialog Timers, find 'Small Hacks' in the RAW Video section and turn on.  This is the new that.
Also, in the most recent build, there is a 'Warm up Card' function, which preforms the first write on boot."

So DSmanning just to be clear what is the build you were referring to that I should use? So once I find this build its really as simple as keeping the old 2.3 fir replacing the autoEX file and add the "modules" folder to the existing ML folder, then it's off to the races? I think.

Will keep you posted when the 32gig arrives,

Thanks again,

J

Hello All,

First off thanks for the hard work/community of this forum, really amazing. 

So just got a nice low shutter 50D and loaded up the June 28th build and it's working but a bit strange.  I can only shoot about 400mb of footage before it stops recording. Could this be buffer issues that I could tweak? In addition I just can't seem to be able to change the resolution size beyond the raw default. I have tried but my gray menu says "N/A" and even when I hit function I can't seem to trigger anything new.

I'm sure within the 84 pages of posts the answers are there (and I have looked) but any simple newbie advice would be great.

One thing to know:I picked up the Komputer Bay UDMA7 card that is 128G.  Could this be the problem? Maybe the it should be 64 or maybe UDMA6?



Thanks again in advance

J