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Any chance for the VisionLog profile for ACR designed for BMD dng, same as ML dng?

Same here, I've been using it for a long time. I agree with the second argument - it can decrease the resolution, especially on a footage shot with wide angle lenses when a barrel distortion is significant.

My cat brought another one and I couldn't resist using my extension tubes and MLV 3x crop mode to take a few shots of the insect...

and here's the previous one a few months back:

Filmed with Canon 24-105mm and Helios 55mm + macro extension tubes, lit with some led panels.

Cheers,
Tom

@Datadogle: What if you consider buying the camera but you don't have access to it to test it? Maybe you want to see if the whole RAW thing is worth the hassle before spending money on the camera.

Hey,

I have recorded a quick test from my window on 5Dm3, using the mentioned settings.
The file is here (~900MiB):

http://bit.ly/1BZmvY3

Cheers,
Tom

@tomekk: I am working on a detailed blog post describing the whole process with all the details, will post the link soon!

@seattler: I shot the clip in 25p because a) I live in Europe and we have PAL standard b) in case the video will be broadcasted in TV, the framerate will match without conversion. For the internet it doesn't really matter whether it is 24p or 25p.

@artyg: 30 June, try upgrading, hotfixes are applied all the time, so perhaps a latest one will work for you just fine!

I used to use RAW 1.0, because of some issues with MLV, mostly shorter recording times, and pink frames at times, but I started testing MLV again a few weeks ago, and no problems since then. So for now the only difference I see is when I use 3x crop. Using RAW I can get significantly longer recording time than MLV. The latter gives me 10-15 seconds only while RAW can go over half a minute or more.

But for regular 1080p 25p MLV + WAV 1TB of footage was recorded with no problems at all.

If you are ok to take the risk and not easy workflow - definitely.
The quality you get is stunning, and to get something like that natively you need to spend a lot more than the price tag of 5d3.

Hi guys,

I have shot a first professional project last weekend using ML RAW on my 5DMK3.
2 full days of shooting, 4 KomputerBay 64GiB cards and a laptop to transfer the data immediately.
I was using MLRawViewer to preview the clips on location directly from cards.

I recorded over 1TB in total, no bad frames at all, camera didn't freeze, etc.
Seems ML is getting more and more stable.
I don't recommend using ML RAW in any commercial work, it's risky and you can lose the take that cannot be repeated.
However it seems that the probability of a failure is dropping down.
A few months back I was still getting "green/pink" frames or the camera had to be restarted by removing the battery.

All in all - the 5DMK3 is a very powerful camera when coupled with ML, and gives extremely good quality footage.
If you know the workflow downsides and they are not blocking you from using it, the quality will be rewarding.

Random frame from the project described above:
http://goo.gl/Oim7EK

Shot in 1080p 25fps.

Cheers,
Tom

I'm getting Exception Error number 104
Any ideas?