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I am trying to install the full featured 5D3 and having problems.

Baiscally here is where I am.

I have installed Cygwin, Yagarto, Mercurial

I have done:

hg clone -r unified https://bitbucket.org/hudson/magic-lantern

I created Makefile.user

Now I can run Make 5D3 and I think I have succesfully compliled autoexec.bin.  I can find it under /../ platform\5D3.113

Here is the text from cyGwin:

$ make 5D3
make -C /home/PH/magic-lantern/platform/5D3.113
make[1]: se ingresa al directorio `/home/PH/magic-lantern/platform/5D3.113'
[ VERSION  ]   ../../platform/5D3.113/version.c
[ CC       ]   version.o
[ MENU IDX ]   menuindexentries.h
No menuindex.txt not running "python2.6 menuindex.py"
[ CC       ]   menuindex.o
[ LD       ]   magiclantern
[ OBJCOPY  ]   magiclantern.bin
[ CC       ]   reboot.o
[ LD       ]   autoexec
autoexec.bin: 334288 bytes

Program Headers:
  Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg Align
  LOAD           0x000060 0x00069500 0x00069500 0x51755 0x616e4 RWE 0x10

[ OBJCOPY  ]   autoexec.bin
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/home/PH/magic-lantern/platform/5D3.113'

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The rest of the process is UNCLEAR AND NEED HELP.

1. I downloaded "5D3-113-bootflag.fir" form Alex post on 5D3 + Dev Kit
2. Where do I get the ML folder for the card?
3.  Do I get the autoexec.bin from /home/PH/magic-lantern/platform/5D3.113'?

Do I copy 1, 2 and 3 to my SD card and boot according to Unified instructions?

Thanks for your help.
Renato

 

Definitely a very useful feature. I'm seriously considering replacing my 2nd body (60D) with a 600D just to get this feature. Having the ability of zooming without reducing quality means less lenses.

Well said!!!

That is why Canon has not added this feature to 650D, 5D3, 6D, EOS M, 1D X.  Canon wants you to spend all your money in lenses.  Now this feature shows up in 1D C, but at a price that is not affordable.  This IMHO, is why Canon upsets most of their clients and MAGIC LANTERN saves their but!

HIP HIP Hurray for ML!  HIP HIP Huraay for Devs. 

This is my most wanted feature for video and feel so helpless.  I have written programs in basic and fortran but dont know a thing about C code.   I wish that I could learn it but I am 52!  My mind is aging so....

I will keep my fingers crossed and cheer you all on this feat!

I was wondering if the IDA PRO will help in deciphering how to accomlish this most important task.

Best wishes and thanks for all your help!

Renato

I had a same problem.
Follow my instructions in the starting as a developer topic.
This line is the key:
ARM_LIBC_A=../../../arm-toolchain462/arm-none-eabi/lib/libc.a
You should give a relative path.

Thanks Pelican, that worked!!

Now I can compile the autoexec.bin which I found under \platform\5D3.113

What are the steps to follow?  Since this is not a release the steps are unclear and I do not want to brick my 5D3!

My guess is:

1.  Copy the "5D3-113-bootflag.fir" and the "autoexec.bin" to the CF card.   Does this card have to be 32Gig or less?
2.  Get the ML directory (some where) and copy it to the card.  Where do I get it?  Can I use one of the old ones supplied with Alpha 2?
3.  Install the card and turn camera on.
4.  Rotate your mode dial to Manual (M) position
5.  Restore your camera to default settings (Clear all camera settings)
6. Launch the Firmware Update process.
7.  If all goes well  you see the green confirmation screen, restart your camera. Done

I will wait to confirm these instructions before I do this.

Thanks in advance for all your help.

Renato

I had a same problem.
Follow my instructions in the starting as a developer topic.

I have gone over it many times.  Cannot solve the problem.

thanks

Any help?

Used: hg pull and then hg update

No improvement!

My  Makefile.user is:
ARM_ABI=none-eabi
ARM_LIBC_A=cygwin/home/PH/arm-toolchain462/arm-none-eabi/lib/libc.a
PYTHON=python2.6

I noticed that some instructions say to copy Makefile.user.default and to change the paths.  That file is totally different so which one should I use?

There is also some references to update the path in Makefile.inc and Makefile.user.defaults..  Is this also needed or by using the ARM_LIBC_A=......  is enough to pass all this information to other files.

Thanks
Renato

Thanks for the tips.  I created the Makefile.user and added the path as suggested; did not change the Makefile.use.defaults.  The Mercurial worked and downloaded some 48 megs into Magic-Lantern. 

I can do a" make clean" and then a "make 5D3"  The compiler spits out some information for about a minute and then it ends with the information posted above.  Some error about not finding a rule for constructing the object.

UPDATE:  I changed the language in cygwn LANG=en_US  here are the results:

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$ make 5D3
make -C /home/PH/magic-lantern/platform/5D3.113
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/PH/magic-lantern/platform/5D3.113'
[ CPP      ]   magiclantern.lds
[ AS       ]   entry.o
[ CC       ]   boot-hack.o
[ AS       ]   stubs.o
[ VERSION  ]   ../../platform/5D3.113/version.c
[ CC       ]   version.o
[ CC       ]   exmem.o
[ CC       ]   bmp.o
[ CC       ]   fio-5d3.o
[ CC       ]   font-dyn.o
[ CC       ]   config.o
[ CC       ]   menu.o
[ CC       ]   debug.o
[ CC       ]   stdio.o
[ CC       ]   bitrate-5d3.o
[ CC       ]   tweaks.o
../../src/tweaks.c:2122:6: warning: conflicting types for 'zoom_trick_step' [enabled by default]
../../src/tweaks.c:1336:9: note: previous implicit declaration of 'zoom_trick_step' was here
[ CC       ]   lens.o
[ CC       ]   property.o
[ CC       ]   propvalues.o
[ CC       ]   gui.o
[ CC       ]   gui-common.o
[ CC       ]   misc.o
../../platform/5D3.113/misc.c: In function 'display_shooting_info':
../../platform/5D3.113/misc.c:67:9: warning: unused variable 'bg' [-Wunused-variable]
../../platform/5D3.113/misc.c: At top level:
../../platform/5D3.113/misc.c:170:6: warning: conflicting types for 'RedrawBatteryIcon' [enabled by default]
../../platform/5D3.113/misc.c:162:5: note: previous implicit declaration of 'RedrawBatteryIcon' was here
[ CC       ]   picstyle.o
[ CC       ]   cfn.o
[ CC       ]   zebra.o
[ CC       ]   shoot.o
[ CC       ]   chdk-gui_draw.o
[ CC       ]   movtweaks.o
[ CC       ]   my_memset.o
[ CC       ]   menuhelp.o
../../src/menuhelp.c:143:6: warning: conflicting types for 'draw_page_number' [enabled by default]
../../src/menuhelp.c:42:29: note: previous implicit declaration of 'draw_page_number' was here
cd ../../doc; python2.6 menuindex.py
Could not open menuindex.txt, will not rewrite help index files
[ CC       ]   menuindex.o
[ CC       ]   focus.o
[ CC       ]   notify_box.o
[ CC       ]   dialog_test.o
[ CC       ]   vram.o
[ CC       ]   aj_port.o
[ CC       ]   lv-img-engio.o
[ CC       ]   fps-engio.o
[ CC       ]   tasks.o
[ CC       ]   tskmon.o
[ CC       ]   state-object.o
[ CC       ]   hdr.o
[ CC       ]   beep.o
[ CC       ]   audio-ak.o
[ CC       ]   vsync-lite.o
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `cygwin/home/PH/arm-toolchain462/arm-none-eabi/lib/libc.a', needed by `lib_a-setjmp.o'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/PH/magic-lantern/platform/5D3.113'
Makefile:70: recipe for target `5D3' failed
make: *** [5D3] Error 2

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Thanks for all of your replies.

Renato

I have followed the developer instructions for windows and got the cygwin compiler working but get an error about not having any rule to construct the object. 

I know the risks and since the dev will not provide Alpha 4 I am willing to try to compile it myself
Here is the last of the error.. sorry in spanish

make[1]: *** No hay ninguna regla para construir el objetivo `cygwin/home/PH/arm                                                                                                    -toolchain462/arm-none-eabi/lib/lirm-toolchain46', necesario para `lib_a-setjmp.                                                                                                    o'.  Alto.
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/home/PH/magic-lantern/platform/5D3.113'
Makefile:70: recipe for target `5D3' failed
make: *** [5D3] Error 2

Can you plese provide Alpha 4.  I am not a developer but want to use Intervalometer and bulb ramping for timelapse.
Thanks
Renato

For images it would fix my tokina lenses on 6D. Like do a cropped Mraw or something. But the cropping only seems to work in LV.

Video we'll try. Its not 1920x1080 but its less scaling to do the center crop. The interpolation math produces whatever sizes, hopefully quality will be better than the full size. Waiting on FW to fully decompile to take a look. So much doesn't work on digicV ports yet so be patient.

I hope the IDA-Pro software will help speed up finding the details of Crop Mode video.

[4K]

The new CANON 1DC has a crop factor feature that is brilliant.
It has the option to use the FF sensor size as a 5D markII 1080p, Super 35mm, 1080p (1.6 x crop) and a 4K APS-H crop size (1.3 x crop)

Oh well, that clearly explains why Canon did not put any of those features in any of the good cameras INCLUDING 1D X.  Canon sucks!!!!  They want us to pay the price of 1DC to get cropped digital video.

There is no way in HELL  I will pay that kind of money for these features when the competition (Nikon and Panasonic GH2 and GH3) provides them for FREEE.  That is why canon 5D3 does not sell very well and Canon had to drop the price by at least $500.  Instead they should have provided a firmware update with digital cropped video and kept the same price.  But of course nooooooo, they will only add these features to 1DC thinking that people will buy that piece of overpriced c...  Which is nothing more than a 1DX with better firmware.  Canon is losing customers because they piss people off!!!  I am pissed off!

I hope that ML can do something about this!  I have pledged $200 donation to get Digital Cropped video in ML.

Dear g3ggo,

Nice gift!  Thank you for the wonderful contribution and all your great effort!

Merry Chiristmas to you, your family and also to the rest of the ML team.

Best wishes form Ecuador!!!

[Ok, I have already pledged $200 donation for cropped digital video 3x on 5DmIII.]

Ok, I have already pledged $200 donation for cropped digital video 3x on 5DmIII.

here:http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=3782.msg21073;topicseen#msg21073

Also see here: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=3758.0

Any other pledges for these great guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, I WANT (PLEASE) 10920x1080 CROPPED DIGITAL VIDEO IN MY 5DMIII for a 3X crop factor.  If you folks at ML can doit I will donate $200.

Dec 11 cloudy

Dec 12 cloudy 

Today it is cloudy now.  We will see later ..

Anyone got any good photos yet?

Hi,  I have a Vortex Razor HD scope which is almost as good as Swarovsky at half the price.  I use a canon 50mm f/1.8 to do digiscoping and it is pretty good but you need a lot of light to get good results.  I actually get better results using my kenko 2x + canon 1.4x + 300 f/4 lens with the 5D Mark III,  so I have stopped using the digiscoping setup.  I think the Swarvsky scope can produce better images but the whole thing is a little difficult to use and to aim accurately.  If you are going to do digiscoping I would consider using the Swarovsky scope.

Thanks for the info.

I live in Ecuador in the country but there is some light pollution from Quito, and other smaller towns.

The stars were beautiful from 7 pm to 10 pm.  But some clouds to the west prevented good views of some constellations.  Was able to see very few meteors but nothing from Gemini, I think it was too low in the sky. 

Got up at 2 am but it was cloudy...

Will see again tonight..

I finally watched the video, wow that is very nice!  Congratulations..

I found some scenes with the cranes on the ground and one with the cranes flying which i assume were the digital zoom at 3000mmm!!!!

It would appear that they are indeed sampling just the center of the sensor to get the excellent resolution.  So now I want this on my canon 5D Mark III.

Since you have the original cropped zoom images I ask your opinion on this matter.  Would you say that they are cropping the sensor at the center image or not.  My guess is that they are.  If you took the original video, without cropping, and zoomed in post, then the quality must be inferior, I mean significantly inferior.  This would confirm that they are using just the center of the sensor.  Please confirm if this is also your opinion.

Thanks
Renato

Went outside at 8pm.. cloudy
10pm .. cloudy
5 am.. cloudy

Any good views anyone?

You guys are weird! 

I already ask for this feature, but the developers says that is a feature easy to do in post (http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=3583.0)
I agree that ing can be easily done in post, but i still think that this functionally could be useful. I dont know if implement it is possible or not. Best, 

The mentioned post refers to IMAGE cropping which can be done in post without any benefits of doing it in the camera.  The real improvement would be to better use the full frame sensor using the cropped center portion to make HD video of only the center (magnified) portion of the sensor.

To illustrate this put your camera in video mode and use the zoom button to get the fine details and properly focus your shot.  At this point you are using the cropped portion of the sensor and getting full resolution of this portion of the sensor.  Now you shoot the video and look at it on your PC; will find out that all the details that you saw on the screen are lost!  Go back to the camera and look at the zoom  Live View details and then wish you could get a video of what shows in Live View. 

I have also hooked up my camera to my HD television via HDMI cable and do the same test.  It is amazing the amount of details that you can get from Live View in a cropped mode.  Maybe the only way to get this is with an external recorder...

Unfortunately I just sold my 40D!  But I root for your success!  Nice work.

I will look at your video later.  I do not have bandtwith where I live, so it will have to wait.  But digital crop video seems amazing 3000mm!!!!  I sure hope ML or Canon get on it and provide a firmware for 5d3.

I think Venezuela would be great for wildlife but I have heard many bad things about security issues if you are doing it alone.  But it should be better if you hire a guide! 

I would recommend Ecuador since I live here!  Maybe we can meet this summer.  Here is where I live:

www.pululahuahostal.com