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I click on the app, it blinks and asks me to select an MLV file, which I do ... and then nothing happens. I see the process in task manager ( windows 10), and it's chugging away, but nothing ever shows up on screen.  Is there a trick?

Canon eos m .... get a T3i ... cheap and works with the stable release

I get exposure flashes (short duration brightening), every time I zoom with the 11-22 STM lens, and whenever I focus with the Canon 28 f/2.8 IS. This makes ML unusable with these lenses.
Anyone else have this problem?
Also the magic focus box flickers so much during record that it's unusable.

I wonder if someone on this forum could give me some pointers. I am trying to use the EOS M + intervalometer to collect aerial imagery from a Cessna, but I have a problem - in AF, when flying over water sometimes the reflection stops the AF from achieving focus and the rest of the flight there are no images. Even when not over water the AF makes it so that the minimum delay between pics is too long ( > 3 sec) to get continuous coverage.

But in MF I can't reliably get the 22mm pancake to stay in focus, even using magic zoom on a faraway object to manually focus before takeoff. I think I've had about 1 out of ~20 flights work ok.

I am also flying with a D10 modified with CHDK, and in that case, I have an intervalometer script that tells CHDK to focus to infinity and lock focus. Is there any way to do something like that programattically with the EOS M? Someone at some point told me to "use '70s glass" Can anyone be a little more specific and tell me what lens and adapter I would need to get the closest to 35mm as possible on the EOS M?

Sorry if I am beating a dead horse, or offending anyone by comparing CHDK with Magic Lantern. I am a scientist, not a photography wizard, and I am currently contemplating an experiment whereby I determine how many pieces the EOS M fragments into when dropped from an airplane at 600 meters.

Andy

I bought an adaptor for EF lenses on eBay for $35. There a lot of them, but get one with a tripod mount, like this:  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Electronic-Auto-Focus-AF-Lens-Adapter-Canon-EF-EF-S-mount-to-EOS-M-EF-M-camera-/331273182148?pt=US_Lens_Adapters_Mounts_Tubes&hash=item4d216b9bc4

There are also adaptors to m4/3 etc on eBay, or you can add a Nikon adaptor to the EF to EF-M adaptor, like this:  http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/742913-REG/Vello_LA_CEF_NAF_Canon_EOS_To_Nikon.html/prm/alsVwDtl  There are lots of these as well.

Pick a lens that has a hard-stop focus ring. You could use the Tokina 12-28 f/4 on the EF to EF-M adaptor (gives you lots of focal length choice from 19-45mm FF equiv), set aperture at f/8, focus at infinity (beware some lens markings are not accurate, so check this before flight, or take a focus at about 1000 feet away), and use electric tape to make sure the zoom and focus rings do not move during flight.   http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/969884-REG/tokina_12_28mm_f_4_0_at_x_pro.html

High end lens option:  http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/655184-REG/Zeiss_1762_848_Distagon_T_21mm_f_2_8.html

Nikon (add nikon F adaptor):  http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/36905-GREY/Nikon_1415_Super_Wide_Angle_20mm.html

Cheaper nikon option:  http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/66980-GREY/Nikon_1919_Wide_Angle_AF_Nikkor.html

Hi,

Used ML for quite some time on my EOS-M and I fell in love with the video crop mode. Just installed the latest nightly build on my 5d3. All seems well, but I can't find crop mode. Camera is in video mode, I even tried loading raw_rec and mlv_raw, still no crop mode.

Searched the forums but I must have missed where this was addressed. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: not RAW cropped mode, just plain old h.264

I'm interested in h.264 crop too. I'm a little hesitant to ask questions here, cause, although I'm really excited to try ML, I'm a complete newbie. My needs are pretty simple: focus aids and video crop mode. For everything else I'm fine with the Canon 1.2.3 .... although that will probably change

Press SET while camera is turning on...

Thanks Stedda!  I presume that pressing SET during boot will land you in the Original Canon 1.2.3 firmware?

Can you choose to boot into the original Canon 1.2.3 firmware after installing ML?
Can you go back and forth between them?
thx, looking forward to trying this out!

I've been using the nightly builds for quite some time, and it has been pretty stable for me. If you're not quite adventuresome enough to use the nightlies, just throw Alpha 3 on your camera -- it works very well. (I went with the nightly builds for RAW video support and the neat dual_iso module) I've been using it for both cinematography *and* photography, with much success.

I've read some people having slow start problems, unable to reset the bootflag, and a couple of other issues. Also I have firmware 121. Not sure I want to get rid of that. I guess I am not quite as adventurous as some people here. I sure could use some focus aids though.

Any idea when ML might become a stable release on 5DIII?
I am reallly interested in all of this great work, but I can't afford to risk my camera.