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Has anyone else noticed what seems to be pretty high noise? Maybe it's because I'm using ISOs 800 and above and upscaling to 1080p? I haven't tried denoising, and granted the noise isn't as ugly as say h264 noise and artifacting, but it's prevalent.

800iso is kinda high noise wise traditionaly. I would say yes.  However I am more from the still world then the film world.  The grain is much more pleasant than it was in h264....

This is a screen from quicktime playing a h264 on top vs 14bit raw at the bottom. You can see both the improvement in dynamic range if you look at the comparison and sharpness.


Top h.246 bottom ML 14-bit RAW by Brian Hursey, on Flickr

Full resolution: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3695/8845026479_72bc47e4d1_o.png

So here is my question. I can not seem to be able to be able to do it. So say I set silent picture. However I set say the shutter at 3 seconds. I noticed when I was trying to create blur it does not.?  I want to sorta be able to catch car streaks and stars if possible. To do this the exposure needs to be long.  Basically what are the limitations? I think I am out of luck because it pulls the image from the live view correct? And if live view can not see it then it will not work.

So here is my question. I can not seem to be able to be able to do it. So say I set silent picture. However I set say the shutter at 3 seconds. I noticed when I was trying to create blur it does not.?  I want to sorta be able to catch car streaks and stars if possible. To do this the exposure needs to be long.  Basically what are the limitations? I think I am out of luck because it pulls the image from the live view correct? And if live view can not see it then it will not work.

Well I brought it to the park to test out. Here is a short clip at 1280x720 before I learned the buffer hack so it is 6 seconds long. About 188 frames. 

  Looks like I have to much blue I did very very ver quick raw editing in AE adobe raw

Changing picture quality in the canon menu from RAW to JPEG (L/M/S) will give you a bigger shoot_malloc buffer. 276MB instead of 180MB.

Thats awsome just tried it.

You should to use Silent Picture (DNG) feature with intervalomenter for timelapses. Pls download latest nigthly and try it.

What resolution could you get from this?? Also. I guess since its dng it would be raw correct?  Since i need a niggtly build i take it dng is new... I remember reading that fps overide was recomended over silent picture in 2.3.

The main thing now I want to know is why is the camera turning off mid recording with this..  If I do not force it to stay awake by constantly half pressing the shutter button it will turn off live views and flip the mirror down turning off the camera tell I half press the shutter again. When I do that the mirror flips back up and live view pops up but the recording has stopped.  I really want to use this with fps over ride and it seems it will work well however. The camera will not stay awake long enough.  With normal ML I am able to set fps over ride and it will keep recording for 30min+ doing time lapses like the following.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3eUAbNVRmU

I am so confised on this package! I have all of your files on my formatted card and my camera says "Memory card containing firmware is required to update". This as if it sees no firmware, do I need to download the firmware from ML too? Please help, I wan this hack so badly!

1. First of all installed the GA 2.3 of ML per the normal install method..
2. Boot the camera make sure that magic lanturn GA is working fine on that card.
3. Download the following and copy over the contents of the GA release of ML in your card.  https://www.dropbox.com/s/u305oejjhm130k0/60d_raw_full.zip
4. Follow the instructions that was listed at the beginning of the post.

Sandisk Extreme  45mb/s 16G

187 frames @ 1280x720 @ 23.976 fps

When I tried 1 step lower resolution it started recording and like its weird live view turned off after like 2000 frames

EDIT:  To keep it from going out of live view ever few second I half pressed the shutter button so I was able to have it go to completion

4459 frames 960x540 @23.976 fps

Next I plan on testing with fps override for time lapse test...  Is there a way to keep it from quitting when live view ends?


I think the limit we are hitting is the actual 60D hardware.  Seems it says its transferring at around 20mb/s  when the card is at 45mb/s  because if you look at jflagarde's findings they were the exact same at 1280x720 between the 95/mb and the 45/mb cards. 

Think this will work with fps override?  That would be very useful for timelapse photographers not wanting ti eat their shutter count.