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a1ex motivates others to become coders. I like this 
Just share the dumper, maybe any one have a lot of free time and motivation.

And it appears he's "hooked" another one..., I'll start slogging my way through as soon as I'm back to Colorado from painting houses and cleaning out dad's stuff for my stepmom...

Does this mean we are coming close to getting a working version of ML on the 70D?

No. But it does mean it's being worked on. It will come when it comes.

Yeah, F/16 is tough, but I always carry a variable ND filter for outside, bright sun. I can still get a shallow DOF and correct exposure.

You know, I've never tried the dig zoom in video? Didn't even consider that. I'll have to play with it, thanks for the tip!!

Summer I think nanomad again on vacation

Your setup is the exact as mine: 70D, Sigma 18-35 1.8. This lens is TACK sharp at 1.8 too. Stays on the body 95% of the time. Video, stills, etc.

Anyone heard any news on dev so far? Who gets to be the first guinea pig? After bricking and unbricking phones for years, unlocking bootloaders, custom ROM's, etc., not sure if I want to risk my camera, but I did on the T4i pre-alpha and aside from a few bugs, it was smooth sailing. Then again, the T4i is half the price too..

Tell you what, if Giovanni gives me his holiday photos, I'll lightroom them so he can keep coding!

Excellent idea, keep him working on code instead of frivolous stuff like eat, sleep, vacation photo's, blah, blah... ;-)

Giovanni is back and started coding......   

Right on!!! And where's vacation photo's?

Giovanni  is in a vacation....hope he will back soon and safely

I wanna see some vacation photo's! With the 70D (haven't been out of the country since I got mine, almost feels like a jinx or something?)

...I've started working on it, .....

Hey..., that's good enough for me!! :-)

Oh, and don't forget to disable wifi in-camera when you're done, no need to suck battery power unnecessarily.

Hey TomJ

How do you check focus/view display from the coffee shop?  I havent set up my 70D on wifi, but I like the idea of keeping warm.
I usually have to stop when my fingers get numb and an even greater source of shake sets in.

Sorry mate, thought about it and should have given a step-by-step, sort of...

1. Download EOS Remote app and install.

2. Enable Wi-fi in camera settings.

3. Go to "Wi-fi Function" just below enable.

4. Register whatever nickname you want ("Shootme's 70D" or something like that)

5. Click "OK," then "OK" again.

6. Wi-fi function screen appears after the last OK, and touch/select "Connect to Smartphone"

7. Chose the default, "Camera access point mode" by pressing, "OK" at the bottom.

8. Chose the default, "Easy Connection" by pressing, "OK"

9. Next screen will be your "nickname" and an encryption key, that is the "password" you will enter in your phone.

Phone:

1. Ensure you have your wifi on (it doesn't need to be connected to a router, or anything, just needs to be "on.")

2. If you already have wifi passwords and routers in your phone, go into wifi, look for your camera's nickname in the phones wifi settings, select that and it will ask for a password for "shootme's 70D"

3. Enter the encryption key from the camera screen where the phone asks for password.

4. When you select, "Connect" on the phone, the camera screen should auto scroll to mac address info and such. No need for any of that, you are already (mostly) connected at this point. Now set the camera down somewhere (preferably where you can get some nice upskirts or something entertaining) in AF mode (Manual mode if you want, but lens on AF)

5. Go BACK to EOS Remote, select "Camera Connection" again and it should now show your camera's info.

6. Select, "Pairing" on that screen of your phone. It should then say, "Connected" just above the "Pairing" icon.

7. Select all the, "OK's" on the camera, hit "Menu" to exit the setup mode in the camera, and "Menu" again to exit to live-view on the camera (I turn my screen around so no one can see it if I'm shooting in public - like time-lapses of a mall or something).

8. Go "Back" on your phone to the main EOS Remote menu page and select, "Remote Shooting."

9. Tips: I use a spot-focus for most of my shooting, so I just touch the box on the phone and it corresponds to focus on the camera, whatever I tell it to focus on, yes? To change shutter, aperture, iso, just touch the corresponding icon on the lower part of the phone's screen. (example; 1/60, F1.8, ISO 640)

10. Take remote pics of pretty girls and post for all to see... (or hot dudes for the ladies here..., don't want to be sexist or anything...)

Hey TomJ

How do you check focus/view display from the coffee shop?  I havent set up my 70D on wifi, but I like the idea of keeping warm.
I usually have to stop when my fingers get numb and an even greater source of shake sets in.

Same way as using Canon EOS util tethered. Thing is, from the screen of a cell, it's not so easy if you're shallow DOF focus, so I genl'y use the cell to control when I have the body remote and shooting stopped down so I have a wide focal latitude. Low-angle shots is where doing this shines. Or very high on a tripod or something.

Been sick as a dog (playing with sick kids..., go figure), so have been isolated for a few weeks. Check in and WOW, people have already funded? Damn..., NICE! I'll put what I can in (not working, but money where the mouth is kind of thing).

As far as AF, the 70D shines on glidecam, here's a quick sample clip: http://youtu.be/YkU5LiOVcVI

(Not sure how to properly imbed with BB code?)

I'm willing to post some money (and am about to send the PM about such), but out of curiosity, is there a reason we are outright purchasing a 70d when around $55 can get a dev a week or so with the camera?

A body he can return if he bricks it?

[...Just sending a 70d to someone saying "Here ye go, now spend at least half a year of unpaid work on it" most likely won't do the trick.]

I have just pm'd nanomad that I stand by my offer to contribute 1/3 of the cost of a 70D body. I invite you guys to join!

I understand there can be no guarantees, but that's life. If you want this to happen, sharing in a minor portion of the cost is the least you can do. Most of the resources will come from nanomad anyways, via his time and opportunity cost to take on this project.

Let's hope Marsu42 is wrong: "...Just sending a 70d to someone saying "Here ye go, now spend at least half a year of unpaid work on it" most likely won't do the trick."

No, there is no headphone out. We've got HDMI out, USB (with integrated video-out) and mic-in. I assume that mic-in is physically not suitable for that application, so we are left with HDMI or video-out for this. Maybe dev will tell us if thats even theoretically possible with ML:)

Am I missing something here? Seems like anyone who cares enough about audio to live monitor it will be recording with a field recorder, minimum, which all have audio out for headphones? In-camera audio on DSLR's has never been usable for much more than syncing, so why bother monitoring it?

If you want to link the camera with the laptop it is possible to link using the EOS Utility but you have to connect both the camera and the laptop through a Wifi router not directly like using the EOS app on the iPhone or iPad.

Right, you have to use a router, not directly to lap. You CAN link directly to your cell without data or a router. So I can show a customer a screen remotely from my phone, but not the lap if we're in the field. Canon designed it so you MUST go through a router with a laptop. STUPID!! WTF if you're in the field somewhere? And why make it so a phone can connect through their EOS Remote program, but not to a laptop the same way? So you have to be tethered with USB or indirectly connect through a router. I just don't get it...

Excellent idea, I advise you to buy a 6d with wifi and become the new 6d maintainer which will solve a lot of current problems (well, mine anyway) :-)

WIFI is a toy, for me. I can use with my smart phone, but NOT with a lappy. That's how Canon designed it. WTF? So if you want control from your laptop, it's tethered with USB. No WIFI for lap except photo saving (BFD).

I recommend it especially when you get focusing as equal to the C100 now, I have used the 70D for 5 months or so now and focus is fast accurate and super quiet with the STM lenses.

Ditto. And using a glidecam, having AF capability such as this, is unreal. At F/1.8 and ECU walking shots, I get world-class focus that I never could trying to pull manually (virtually impossible with a glidecam). People think these are dolly shots with a follow focus.

Turns out I already got all I need to get the port started without a camera. But thanks for the dump offer

Can we send you a case of Guinness perhaps?? :-)

I tried to do it, time is not on my side to learn coding.  we should buy one for alex..  http://j.mp/PXcR5H

Might be well worth it if enough people understand how valuable their camera's are with ML and how much more expanded its capabilities are and we can all pitch in a certain amount to get him one. And the few cases of beer it might take to sway his attention to this instead of the stupid 5D and all... :-)

Yep something new out there?
Just about to buy the 70d but only with ML. Using it on the 600D and makes the cam awesome!

I would not hold my breath. It will be quite a long while for ML for the 70D. I tested the pre-Alpha on the 650D and that made it a REAL camera. Sell the 600 and get a 650 if you can find one, but avoid the 70D if you're buying it for ML. These guys are busting ass on as many fronts as they can and until Canon comes out with a FW update and a developer comes up with a 70D to hack, we're just gonna have to wait. Wish there was something us common folk can do to help things along, but there really isn't and constantly asking when it's coming probably gets tiring to these guys.

If there was something that people like us can do, something tangible and real and that helps ML along for the 70D, I know we'd all jump on that ship this second!

I can already see two different thread for the 70d port ..

cf : http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=6862.msg104363#msg104363

How about we merge these two so that info would not be split ?

Any updates over here about the FW dump for the 70D ?

Agree someone should merge these. I hadn't even seen that other thread till you mentioned it. No matter for me though, as much as I wish it so, no ML is being worked on for the 70D yet and playing with various show offerings coming out, there's a whole, wide world out there. Think BM cine (cheaper now with impending GH4 coming out) and the GH4. Some pretty significant changes in the wind.

Understood. I'm sure it's not a simple fix & did not intend to imply that it was. I admire what developers do & I'm amazed they have accomplished so much with so many different cameras. No one should take their skills for granted.
I only shoot photos in RAW & can't wait to see what the 70d can do with RAW video!

That's why I'm prob selling the 70D as soon as I get my hands on a GH4. Have had Canon's since my manual F1 in 1981 (aside from having to use Nikon F4's shooting for an org in the 90's), but truthfully, Canon's a bit behind now with video and with what the Pana can do (according to sources anyway) with vid, I'll jump on that one as soon as I can. ML won't be out for the 70D before the Pana arrives, that's a fact. I miss many things that I had with ML and the T3i/T4i, but as all things go, keeping up with the times and DSLR vid (incl 4k and raw) is where things are now. Not waiting till the 70D is obsolete for RAW vid to be available. Canon could have done that. They didn't. Others are heading there, I'll follow.

I'm not sure if there's one or not. But I saw a guy at my local camera store. He used 5D II with a Chinese battery grip from eBay that has intervalometer with LCD screen + buttons just for $30~40. I'm finding one for my 70D right now, as ML isn't available for this beauty, the 70D.

But I'm not so sure that it can hold up to such weather... I think it will do just fine for me in where I'm living.

Yeah, had that on the grip for the T4i, but not for the 70D. The one's I've found to be the most durable are the Meike grips (of the knock-offs) and the one for the 70D doesn't have any of those functions, just a straight Canon BG-E14 knock-off, no LCD, no timer...

Looking on Amazon, it appears that none of the grips for the 70D have the timer/LCD? Oh well...

Good idea though.

And I'm back to using my 20+ year-old USA-made CamJacket's and controlling the 70D with my cells wifi so I can close it completely up except the lens and still fully operate it/control from inside my parka and out of the wind and snow..., hah!

If I could trust leaving the cam on the tripod, I could go inside a coffee shop and control it from there. Looking for an intervalometer for Android, but no joy so far (the ones that claim to have to be tethered with a USB adapter cable).