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The Moon shot using a BMPCC & 5D Mk3 with Magic Lantern RAW (113). The telescope shots were entirely shot on the 5D.

These new powerful DIGIC 5+ image processors can handle almost any task that you give to them - in realtime. They're built in the 5D Mark III, EOS-1DX and the soon available 4K EOS-1DC DSLR with 8bit 4:2:2 1080p HDMI output. This makes me think that the Canon management told their engineers to cripple the power of the lower end DSLRs like the EOS-1DX, 5D Mark III, 650D by using only a different software. The hardware parts are almost the same if you check the specifications (besides the CMOS sensors). With this faster DIGIC 5+ image processor it should be possible to gain more (or real 1080p) resolution (like the Panasonic GH2) from a 5D Mark III by optimizing the intentionally crippled downscale algorithm.

With the 5D Mark II they introduced line-skipping because the processor was not fast enough to handle the stream of data. Now they advertise the new 5D Mark III does not use line-skipping anymore.

When I see what you guys at Magic Lantern have succeeded so far, Im wondering if these very talented programmers could also implement a MPEG variant XF 422 codec at 50Mbit in a 5D Mark III or at least unlock the full potential of the DIGIC5+ processor.

The hardware is right in front of us, we just need some software engineers to make it work with real FullHD like Canon advertised :-)

Thanks so far for your invaluable work!