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A short weather forecast we shot for a local TV station. We Used a 5D Mark II with Magic Lantern and a Mark III (sadly without ML)
The idea was to show a timelapse in motion of the location for which the weather is displayed. Thankfully Moldova is a small country so we had to cover only about 1000 kilometers overall.

I'll check as soon as I find an SD card.

Just fill up your CF card until you get the no space warning and insert an SD card.

How is the firmware guys? Anybody tested it? Got no paypal in my country 

Awesomeness, just tested it on my 1100D and it's beautiful. You can actually use it do an ISO-based iris pull. Until today you either had to use HDR video which sacrificed FPS or a manual de-clicked lens.

Oh I see. That's what I thought. I wonder how it works.  So if I increase the ISO while shooting from 160 to 320 won't it give extra noise in the middle of the shot due to unnative ISO?

Hey a1ex, what does smooth ISO mean?

I'm just wondering if clean HDMI out on the Mark III is possible why it's not possible on the Mark II

How about the clean HDMI?

Loading ML from an SD card and recording to a CF card is the best option looking forward. If you can enable MJPEG 422 or push the ALL-I bit-rate then recording to CF cards makes much more sense. Media is cheap as chips these days so it's a very small investment for welcome new features. Spending days or weeks trying to get ML loading from both slots is a big waste of your time given that it doesn't improve on the MKIII's filmmaking ability one bit.

I'm up for being a bit-rate crash test dummy.

I agree.

So, either the ARM chip from DIGIC V is just as fast (or as slow) as in DIGIC IV, or there's more CPU power used by Canon tasks (and less left for ML tasks). Maybe the speed-up in DIGIC V was only for the image processing chips?

As I understand canon changed the video "resize" method for the 5d3. They used to line skip but now, considering the absence of aliasing, they use a more advanced resize method. Not sure if that's true but I think they also enabled chromatic aberration correction for photo and video as well. I guess that uses some precessing power too. No wonder you're left with only a fraction of the DIGIC5+ CPU power.

I also wonder if the 5d can do 4k video as the 1D C does.

Read your low level progress. Real time defishing is an interesting feature. Can it work on video too? Are all those features in the stock firmware and just disabled by canon or is it so we thing you write yourself?

BTW, is there a way to get 1:1 Crop?

There is hope for MJPEG 422 or clean HDMI out though

Amazing!

Clean uncompressed HDMI output(like the D800) would be amazing though unlikely.
4:2:2 would be amazing as well but as I understand it's even less likely.
1080 50P would be a pretty nice feature
720 100P also cool

But somehow I got the feeling that all my wishes are almost impossible to implement.