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Would Mirror lock up work? http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/Projects/Mirrorless/canon550mirrorless.html This is a pretty big step I'm sure you know that. If you have 4,000$ floating around you might consider buying an adapter, but that doesn't seem like as viable of an option as removing your mirror.

great tutorial, got to do some measures and ready to remove it. Thanks to all

Try negative digital ISO to preview a darker image (this one doesn't affect the raw image, just the preview).

Works great!!! Thanks Master. You are truly a legendary hero

I would like to remove the mirror in the 50D to be able to use cinema PL lenses for Raw shooting. I know that is possible. Is there someone who has attemp to do that with success. Thanks.

@Andy600. Hi man, may I ask you something I did not found any answer yet?
I´ve been shotting RAW with the 50D and I have noticed that the final exposure of the images are quite underexposed, once I open it in ACR, compared with what I saw in the LV camera. My question:
Is there a way to shoot "WYSIWYG" in 50D raw?
I know that the camera is not intended for video shooting and the LV image do not match with the Photo mode shutters values. I use always manual vintage lenses and even the auto ETTR works fine to get the best exposure, I find very difficult to shoot with such a bright image.
I have only found that the only way to get WYSIWYG is turning ON the "Constant Exp" in FPS override menu, but as you probably know it only works with 100 ISO and 1/50 near values.
Pardom my english.

Testing the 50D RAW this summer.

The adapters on Ebay claim infinity focus. It ultimately depends on the  protusion of the rear element of whatever taking lens that you're using. They will vary

You are right. First I was thinking in C-mount as Super16 lenses, but there a lot of Super16mm lenses in PL mount. So if you want use them there is a PL adapter to do it, but you have to make room for the lens close to the sensor and also remove the mirror or lock it up in some way. So excuse me for what i stated earlier. now, super16 PL lenses on Eos cameras is possible. With Raw crop mode I think that the FF cameras suit better.

Even you got it mount it, you can't achive focus, you can only use it for macro work. The lens have to be VERY close to the sensor to get infinity focus.

You should be able to get whatever shutter speed you want now since its ADTG not head timers.

Syncing to things like lights and screens doesn't work on this camera. On others you can tweak the speed a little bit and make lights/tvs stop flickering. 50D it doesn't work, just starts flashing the whole image.

Thanks for the information. Great work man!!!

Also, noticed something with FPS under artificial light when shooting last night. The 50D's video mode is NTSC 30p and usually you can trust the shutter speed indicator when it turns green but I had to drop to a slightly lower shutter speed to remove the slow flicker caused by AC in Europe. I don't think this is an issue on cameras that have native 25p PAL so it's worth double checking for that 'out of sync' flickering before hitting record.

Same issue I noticed. As you say the ntsc mode could not monitoring the image in a way you can get rid of it. Maybe Mr1% can give us some "light".....

The nightly builds are only for the unified (no raw video module). If you want the latest nightly build with raw video inside it, you must compile yourself and take the latest raw module to add.

Thanks dude.

Hi guys, I´m a little lost. Where I can find the newest builds (nightly) fot the 550D?. I scrolled the forum and the last I found is Rewind's 21/6. Thanks.

Thanks A1ex for this invaluable feature. What a great imagination you have to find that!!!!!!

Hi Andy, I think I have found what you were looking for:
www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/2513-blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-c-mount-lens-compatibility-list/page-9
Read one of the last post of this page. I suppose it is a hard to find item. Get lucky, those soviet lenses looks promising.

My shots tend to look underexposed compared to a still photo or h264 at the same settings. Anyone else with that feeling?

I got the same problem. Asked few days earlier, and no response. I figure out that is something 1% is working on. The only remedy I have found is to enable Constant expo in FPS override settings. Also If you use Auto ETTR, the LV exposure is equal to the Photo and Video exposure.

I have notice that when you nail exposure, the photo and the video result is about half stop underexposed. If I select constant expo in FPS override the exposure result is right with I saw in LV, but It can use only 100-200 Iso before it flickers. Is there something I do not do right?
I am using 27Jun build, FPS override 24p exact fps, ettr ON, exposure simulation ON, manual lens, M mode.
Sorry to go off topic, but hope 1% knows what happen. Thanks.

VS h264 for sure, vs other raw, not really.

I should test it more extensively. From what I have "seem" looks better than the 5d2 I own. I will make a comparative with various aspect ratios and cameras. Thanks 1% for your efforts. Good luck with 24p native mod, it will be a giant step for this camera.

Getting continous 24p 1584x1056 with Komputerbay 32Gb 1000x. Non crop mode.
Awesome aspect ratio, full sensor. I ve seen improved the aliasing issue with this resolution. Is that possible or just placebo?
Thanks folks awesome job.

Hi all. I was shooting an interview with the Canon 5DmkII with ML v2.3, while making questions the card reach full. In my computer the file that reach the cardfull can not be played. I used some popular .mov repairs but they did not work. Has anybody know how to recover the file? or an application that should do the job?.
Camera 5DmkII
ML v2.3
GD on (peaking) / Flaat PS/ Rec restart/
I used the search engine to get info and the results were zero
Thanks in advance

Another 50D RAW video test. This time in B&W.

Shot with 12Jun GregoryOf Manhattan build. I love the possibility to choose different aspect ratio for filming. Thanks to all involve in the development. Vimeo does not show the video in the original aspect ratio, they included it in a 16:9 canvas. 

This is my first quick test with my new 50D. Using the 28May build. No problems at all, except the aliasing normal issues.

Gregory, the build works like a charm. Thank you so much for the hard work you have done. I got 220 frames of full 16:9with a sandisk extreme 60mb/s when with the previous buidl I could only make 50. Good work dude.

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Thanks a lot Gregory for turning up out of nowhere and getting this far. Awesome
In other words: Gregory worked his ass of the past 10 days to make future developments easier, because from now on (or in the near future) it should be possible to let the development run along with the other camera's - not separate.

For now, use the 28th may build (linked in the first post of this topic, not the second one). The newer test builds aren't interesting for actual use.

Thanks Julian, I am already using the 28May build. Incredible work guys. I would like to keep track of the devlopment. I recnetly bought the 50D mainly because your thread is the most fascinating. The camera is also. I want to compare it with my 5D2. I am very happy cause the cameras looks are very different and give me a lot of possibilities. You were right Julian about the cinematic look of the 50D, with vintage glass has a unique feel. The markIII reigns in RAW world, but the ancient 50D has a lot to say. Thanks all for share your talent.

hi all, update on my builds and code for the 50D.

i got my 50D via craigslist in the US on Sunday May 26th, i signed into this forum the next day and did a magic lantern install.
had as many of you been following the various camera raw video forums as well as looking at code commits from the magic lantern core team on bitbucket.org/hudson/magic-lantern/ (click on source then naviagte to  Magic Lantern / modules / raw_rec / raw_rec.c  and click "Blame") to see the macro view of the code. 
thought that within a week i'd be able to push a set of code for the 50D into the main magic lantern development "unified" branch, so that further developments are easy to keep in line with the extensive ongoing code work.

today i pushed all the code via a pull request to the core team (took me 10 days not 7 - oh well). once this is accepted, it will make it much easier for anyone to make builds and add on to the 50D part of the project, as it will be in sync. 

a "build" is the set of files you install on your card to run magic lantern.  these have to be generated for each camera, as certain files you see on your card like "autoexec.bin" and "ML/MODULES/MAGIC.SYM" are cameras specific and must be "compiled" for that camera - the 50D.109 in this thread. 

if you're using a build from 28May13 on the 50D you will likely see my computer name on the ML info screen.
going forward, in the very near future, all the code needed to make the 50D record raw video will be in the main "unified" branch.  it is also available in the public repository https://bitbucket.org/GregoryOfManhattan/magic-lantern/commits/branch/50DrawNow (the 50DrawNow branch is the one to use, i am also new to using bitbucket and the mercurial version control system, so please ignore the other 50D branch)

anyone is free to make builds with the code going forward.

over the past week, i've been merging code with the main unified branch and making builds.
the builds from the code vintage of May 28 - May 31 seem to have had the highest performance to me with as i now recall a magical build on the 30th which could run at 57MB/s with focus peaking and graphics.

many users are reporting 55MB/s+ performance from the build i released on 28May13.
more recent builds do not match this performance for me. for example with the merge this morning, i didn't have stable recording above 50MB/s - though i did have Silent Pictures, AutoETTR and many other new features running on the 50D.

i'd like to thank everyone on this very helpful forum and the many contributors to magic lantern. i really don't know how a1ex can get so much done - seems like he only sleeps 3 hours a night.
i've learned quite a bit in 10 days.

cheers

Sorry Mr Gregory, but I'm still so dumb that I do not know where to find your new builds. Should I find then in the Unified Nightly builds? or Should I compile (something I never did) the code of Bitbucket?. Thanks for attending these newbie questions.

But what about all the money I invested in amazing Zeiss glass

Zeiss is the lens to go in 5D3, sure!!!!. But with the 5D2 will be worth spend some money in the Mosaic Aliasing filter. I love Zeiss and never get rid of my set, NEVER. These lenses will survive me.

I think the secret to avoid it would be while shooting. I got better results with the 5D2 in terms of aliasing and moire using a ND (0.9) and a Pola together in camera, and avoid super sharp lenses like Zeiss and Canon EF. A very good choice are the Leicas R, quite sharp but also soft/creamy, also vintage lenses not sharp like Meyer's and Jena east German ones. Also notice to get nice results using wide apertures, a little bit soft but less noticiable aliasing, cause it is still there