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Thanks Walter, that did the trick!

Thanks again, Rob

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone could help me. I have had the nightly (April 19) build installed on my camera for a few months now. I have mainly been using the ML to adjust white balance. The other day, I tried to use canon's custom white balance feature (the one where you take a picture and it uses that as a reference point) and nothing seemed to change.

I'm just wondering if ML is overriding canon's white balance, or if I've done something wrong.

Cheers, Rob

Thanks Datadogie for the heads up! 

Thanks for the replies. I have re-read all the documented info and all the posts I think I know what I am doing now!

Thank you everyone for the help 

Thanks for the reply Walter,

I'm sorry, if I'm missing something. But I think it's better to know what I'm doing, instead of coming back and saying I bricked my camera.

I'm still a little confused, because I already have ML v 2.3 installed (from 2 years ago) I just want to upgrade to the nightly build. I'm sure I installed ML v 2.3 correctly per the instructions from 2 years ago. As I copied every file from the v2.3 zip to my t3i sd card which is stated in the INSTALL.pdf file. Here is a video, (not me!) but it shows what I did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-5wSmUsHc.

So, presumably I could skip to "Updating Magic Lantern with new build in the future (on camera and sd card with ML installed):" step in the sticky. But where the sticky describes the updated why of installing v 2.3, which only copyies the the ML directory, autoexec.bin and 600D .fir files from the v2.3 zip.

In my case as I have excess .fir files and pdf files from my original install, I'm not sure if it is ok to copy and replace the new nightly build files with the existing files on my sd card and then delete the excess .fir files and pdf files?

Sorry, Walter. I included the original text in italic just for information purposes (I can edit it out later if you think it would confuse users.) I re-read the sticky. I thought for some reason I had to keep the 600D.fir file. So, just to confirm I can safely delete all the files from my SD Card, except for I'm guessing the DCIM and MISC folders and then just place the new nightly build files (ML directory and autoexec.bin) to the sd card.

Hey _OLLE_,

Thanks for the reply! I'm not sure if the video is the same as the installation on the t3i.

I understand the instructions on the t3i sticky fine, but comparing them to the t5i sticky and the video you linked tom, there are some differences. But, thank you for your help!! 

From my understanding the t3i needs the original stable version (v2.3) to be installed first. In the sticky, it says to copy over the  'ML' directory, autoexec.bin and 600D-102.fir from the original stable version. And, then once 2.3 is installed you can delete the 'ML' directory and autoexec.bin and replace those files with the new files from the t3i nightly build - but you have to keep the 600D-102.fir file from the v2.3 install.

But the sticky is relatively new, and when I originally installed ML on my t3i, I just copied every file over to the sd card. So, I had .fir files for the 5D and other cameras on the card, and they are still there today along with the help pdf files.

I don't know whether it would be ok to delete the files I don't need e.g the pdf files, the (old) autoexec.bin, the (old) 'ML' directory and all of the .fir files except for the 600D-102.fir file and then place the new nightly build autoexec.bin and 'ML' directory onto my sd card. I'm not sure if something will break?

Hi all,

I have a quick question, after doing some research I was a bit confused about the installation of the nightly builds on the 600D/T3i. Watching an installation of ML on youtube for a 5D didn't help to much obviously!

I understand that the stable version of v2.3 needs to be installed first, and I did this a couple of years ago. At the time, I copied all the files over to the sd card (so all the .fir files and also pdf files.)

Having read the installation instructions for v2.3 here, for the 600D it says "- Unzip 'ML' directory, 'autoexec.bin' and '600D-102.fir' from the downloaded ZIP file onto your sd card."

As I didn't install ML this way in the first place and I originally placed all the files on my sd card, could I delete all the files except the '600D-102.fir' file, and then continue with the update process by placing the nightly build files onto my sd card? Or should I uninstall ML and start again?

Hope my post makes sense, thanks.

Thanks for the reply. I'm so sorry I didn't mean to sound like I do not trust the developers, and the members of the forum! I'm just trying to get to the bottom of how to install ML properly, so I came here to ask instead of trusting someone else. I didn't mean to offend anyone.

After posting I found http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=12113.0 and http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=15360.0. Always the way, but I have one question which I will ask over on the 600D thread. This thread can be marked as solved or deleted - Thank you!!

Hi all,

Sorry for the dumb question... I'm just a little confused. I have a 600D/T3i with Magic Lantern 2.3 installed and I'm considering upgrading to the nightly builds.

I'm just a little unsure how to actually update ML, I have read the ML wiki and it says under the updating section: "Simply delete your old Magic Lantern files from your card and copy the new ones."  I have also read the Nightly Build forum page and it says: "Delete ALL old files from card i.e. autoexec.bin and the entire ML directory and replace by new files.  Do not mix old with new." However, I saw a youtube video and the person left the old 2.3 files on the sd card and then copied and replaced the new files with the old ones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS2XAdmty0o. But then there would still be old files on the sd card, such as the .fir files and pdf files etc. Also watching that video, his nightly build includes a .fir file for his camera - where as the 600D nightly download doesn't contain a .fir file. Having searched around further I found this forum post - http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=13709.0

So basically I am just a bit confused as to the actual procedure of upgrading from 2.3 to the nightly build.

Sorry for the long winded post, but I thought the more information I provide the better.

Do you know where I should be pressing the Q button?

I looked on the magic lantern website, and compared my menu settings to the 5d.

I am also lacking the vignetting option. Or have just missed something?

Hey,

Thank you both for the quick replies, I will give that a try tomorrow and let you know how I get on!

[EDIT]

I just looked at my camera, there doesn't appear to be an image fine tuning setting under the movie tab. I'm using a 600D if that makes a difference?

All the best, Rob

Hi, All

I'm new to magic lantern, and I noticed that I can either change my shutter speed from 1/46.9 or to 1/50.4, I am shooting in 1080p 24 on a 600D.

I have looked around and some people have had the same situation, but I can't find a solution to make the shutter speed go to 1/48, and I'm not sure if that's possible.

Before I installed magic lantern, I would use the recommended 1/50th shutter speed with 1080p 24. Now, I'm using magic lantern, and I have a little more choice, I wondered if I could set the shutter speed to 1/48? And if not, which would be the best shutter speed to use, 1/46.9 or 1/50.4?

Thanks in advance,

Rob