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This is amazing.  Was just looking into picking up an audio recorder for my 50D this week. 

Would love to see that video you mentioned in your blog post.  I'd love a diy project like this.

Grand Canyon and Sedona visit this past week.  Thank you so much to those who work on this project and to those that keep this community so great.

ISO 100/800
f/8
1/250th
Canon 24-70 @ 24mm
Canon 50D



10 vertical frame panorama stitched in PS CC (full res ended up being 14561x4639)
ISO 100/800
f/9
1/25th
Canon 24-70 @ 24mm
Canon 50D

I agree.  I got the 50D body only for $300.  I have seen most 5DII's is hanging just over $1000.  Pretty big gap there...

If you really are on a tight budget, I'm loving the 50D.  Takes a bit of getting used to, a few quirks and oddities that are not in other camera builds.  For example cropped video is not recorded from the direct center of the sensor (working on learning a bit of the ADTG and CMOS registers to help the devs).  For the price and what you get with Magic Lantern, it is so worth it.

Wow, great work.

Build your own. I built a 'Hackintosh' when I got into the ML RAW video.  My MacbookPro was holding up for my photo editing, but when I tried to run resolve I almost burned my pants off with that laptop running so hot.  I too am more comfortable with the Mac platform, especially when it gets down to keyboard shortcuts, so having a custom built Mac that can also boot into Windows is great.  As was said above, many short scripts, apps, etc, for post processing are usually .exe exclusive for a bit, until they are ported.

I ended up with a system very close to the new MacPro (without the insanely expensive ThunderBolt ports, in time maybe an upgrade) while saving over $1000USD, with a nice Asus 27" monitor as well.

A few from Deer Island, looking back towards Boston. 100/800

Manning-IMG_5755-140425-dualiso
Manning-IMG_5740-140425-dualiso

Yes, http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=11323.msg110540#msg110540

Edited my makefile to allow for ADTG GUI module.  5 registers changed when center clicking the joystick to set to 'Center to 5X RAW'

ADTG3[9] 0x3010 (was 0x2d0d)
ADTG3[*b] 0xb010 (was 0xad0d)
CMOS[5] 0x5e6 (was 0x628)
ADTG3[1000] 0x5 (was 0x0)
ADTG3[1200] 0x1 (was 0x0)

Time to do some researching. EDIT added * next to ADTG3 2nd line, because the tag without was making text bold, and missing part of the register

if anyone wants to get his hands dirty:

Can you point me in the direction of centering 50D crop mode, I'd love to get my hands dirty with that. I have an old B4 broadcast lens that would be great, if it didn't catch a left/right vignette when I shot cropped or zoomed during recording.

Anyone else use Silent Pictures for crop mode?

The center of the sensor in crop mode seems to not like to center... Confusing, I know. What I mean by that is that you can get information from the center of the sensor, but when in crop mode, it always chooses a side (left/right).

I know it is a 5x preview of a 3x crop, so it is already a bit more to think of while composing a frame. It would be nice to know what is actually the center without having to guess.  This is also the case for crop sensor RAW recording. Being able to have it record from the center would be great, allowing for zoom in/outs would not come/go to the corner of the frame, but straight down the center of the lens.

Thanks

If you can find B4 2/3 lenses for cheap, I've found that is a nice way to get a good image in crop mode.  Also, they have a smooth aperture on the lens that usually goes below T/1.8  Works well for me, but I use a 9.5-143 1.7 cropped and zoomed at 1.7 for the project I'm working on now (gets amazing glowing bokeh).  Some people don't know what they are selling when they get rid of these.  I picked this lens up for $12 + shipping on eBay, the mount adapter from China cost more, and took longer to get here...  I get a few chromatic aberrations, but those are pretty easy to clean up in ACR.

Looks like you did alright for one day  Nice work.

DSLR Controller not working while raw video is on

Thank you. Said this a few posts back, and it was stated that USB was working after. IT IS NOT WHILE RECORDING RAW (which is what most of us are interested in here)

One more question. When recording RAW what resolution is output via HDMI (600D? 50D?)? I'm considering using it for framing/focusing/monitoring purposes (portable). I can't decide which is better for this: laptop with EOS Utility or ext HDMI monitor. Any thoughts? What do you use?

Can't answer your resolution question, but have you tried EOS Utility while the RAW or MLV module is active?  Seems that on the 50D USB output is broken when a RAW recording module is loaded.  I try it every few builds to see if something in the changelog fixed it, but no luck so far.  I have a Nexus 7 with DSLR Controller that I would love to use with my rig (I sometimes do for framing, just shut off MLV or RAW and the image comes back) but that has the same USB issues as connecting to EOS Utility.  Good luck!

Nice tips.  I have this lens and absolutely love it.  It gives such a nice effect, and holds such nice colours for such a reasonable priced piece of glass.  Quick question for you, does adding the chip have any influence on the camera while manually focusing for video?  For stills/video on this lens, I always use a magnified viewfinder with focus peaking and LV DIGIC peaking to show the edge of what is in focus.  It has done me pretty well so far, but this method looks nice for stills.

A frame pulled from 23.976 RAW video from the 50D on this lens at 1.4  No editing at all yet and I love the look

I always had to disable dialog timers to take silent pics.

Thanks!  Works great now.  Never thought to disable during shooting, only filming.  Now if only the cropped mode were centered, this lens would be great on the 50D.

Thanks 1%

Is there anyone else out there shooting Silent Pics?  I'd say over 60% of mine get some sort of distortion, be it off-colour, pink lines, or reorganized pixels.

   

   

With B4 glass and a 2x extender, should be free of vignetting in crop mode, correct?  Without 2x extender you would have a somewhat fisheye look.

Or I believe in crop mode (even without extender) you would cover the whole sensor.  In full frame, you would get the vignetted fish eye look.  It is more the cameras like the GH series that need the 2x extender because they do not have the same sensor zoom we have on ML.

KahL or anyone else using converted lenses care to clarify? Thanks  I had actually picked up that J15x9 B4 lens last summer at an antique show/town fair for something like $30.

When you guys are using the latest tragic lantern update, is greyscale preview running smoothly for you when shooting in crop mode? Mine has a severe lag when recording on my 1000x card, someone mentioned that they got it to work in real time.

Also, anyone else getting a black bar along the side of their crop-mode clips?  it even happens when I'm using greyscale preview.

You sure the person you're referencing wasn't talking about mlv_play?  Playback in grayscale of .mlv videos runs smoothly (with great reduction in detail) as opposed to colour playback, which is rich in detail, but very choppy. 

Recording in grayscale preview is very choppy for me.

Avoid shooting with such a high iso.  Also, quite a few users on here apply Neat (noise/sharpening) in their editor.  Helps quite a bit.

I've got a battery grip off amazon (cheapo plastic knockoff that is actually really nice) and I've only had overheating warnings twice.  Boston can be a bit cold and I'm usually shooting outdoors, but even with tests inside, or even awhile ago before the winter, I wasn't overheating.  I do however get an overheating warning when I connect DSLRcontroller (android app) although I know it is falsely reporting because it happens as soon as I connect, and the camera is cool to the touch.

Hi guys,

is there anyone that can upload some dngs coming from a 50D, like 50 frames or less?
I'd like to test them in Davinci and see if they have my same problem I explained here http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=9826.0

thanks

Uploading some (truly crap) frames to dropbox now.  Accidental record while in the storage at work, don't bother downloading unless you are comparing.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/71ehvj60rep0yha/wd0I3vWWii

Link should be open, let me know.


Random thought for audio sync.  I know the beep from other cameras is out of the question from a hardware stance, but is there a way to make the camera make a significant noise otherwise?  After hitting record, would it be possible to force the mirror down then up again, and then start recording to the card?  If it were always the same timing when recording began after a mirror lockup, audio sync would be a breeze.  I don't have the knowledge to poke around the code and find out, but I was thinking due to the Mirror Lockup options under the Shoot tab including all sorts of options including timing, this might be applicable.

Thanks for the great work!

I just tried the MLV module, in the newest TL build. I unpacked it with http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=7802.0 - is this the proper tool? It did complain about some keywords not recognized (MARK, ...). My newest ACR does read the proper aperture and FL from the DNG files (great!), but doesn't detect the lens automatically. I checked with exiftools, and the CR2 files have these lines:

Lens Type                       : Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L or Sigma or Tamron Lens
Lens Model                      : 17-50mm
Lens                            : 17.0 - 50.0 mm
Lens ID                         : Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 OS HSM or Tamron SP 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II VC
Lens                            : 17.0 - 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 26.9 - 79.2 mm)

Whereas the DNG files only had this line:
DNG Lens Info                   : 17-50mm

But this is not big deal - I can set the lens type manually.

I just had a dng with full info, except it got my lens and focal length wrong. 

Shooting on a Rokinon 85mm f1.4 reports as;

50mm lens at f/0 (but it is a manual aperture so f/0 makes sense)

Same thing, not at all a big deal.  Just thought I'd put it out there.  Will test with other non-Canon lenses to see how it reports.

Also, from my wish list: is there any simple solution to somehow rate/ mark files on the go - the ones that I believe will be the best?

I like this idea. Since we can pre-tag mlv files as; Take1, Take2, etc..., would it be possible to do that in post?  1-5 *'s or even just a 'thumbs up/down' system would help with workflow.

Looks like you're missing your fonts.dat file, as your error says. You don't just need another .bin file if you don't have a fonts.dat

https://bitbucket.org/andy600/tl50d/downloads

Download latest, copy over all files, not exe's from latest, and run.

hey guys,
i've been using ml for some time now on a 550d, but i'm still a noob when it comes to nightly builds and raw recording on my brand new very old 50d.
i know this is probably the wrong place to ask stupid questions, but i am overwhelmed by a million of open tabs and i think i just need someone to point me to the best build...
i'm willing to take any risk necessary to record a raw sequence in at least full hd (crop), so far i tried the latest nightly build for the 50d as well as the latest official final release.
in both cases i didn't get to load the necessary modules.
i would be trying this one next:
"UPDATE: June 11th

@GregoryOfManhatten's latest build (70MB/s capable raw video) - note ETTR is not currently working in photo mode

https://bitbucket.org/GregoryOfManhattan/magic-lantern/downloads/09june13-50D-45e63064ec08-70MB.zip"

any other suggestions? thank you!

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5586.msg87952#msg87952

The first post hasn't been updated in some time.  Best to check the last few pages of the thread for a post by Andy. He is supplying the builds.