Formatting cards (Canon 7D)

[Eugene]

Dear ALL

According to ML instructions in chapter ,,Best Practice" (http://www.magiclantern.fm/bestpractices) the following Tip has been given:

,,We strongly recommend you to format the card before every important shooting session! This helps maintaining performance when recording files, and prevents the files system from becoming fragmented."....

Later on, the following: "Tip: to format the card and remove Magic Lantern, go to the Canon Menu / Format screen and press the shortcut key indicated in brackets, as in the screenshot - on most cameras it's the [Q] button".

This instruction is not clear for me since, on the photo next to the text, is written: ,,Format card, keep Magic Lantern [Q] All data will be lost".

According to this sentence, I understand the following: by pressing ,,Q", the LN will be KEPT and all others data will be lost. But in your mentioned sentence if we press the Q button, the card will be formatted and ML removed! I think there is a contradiction?!

Additionally, if you move the mouse cursor on the pic, this will show another image ,,Format card, keep Magic Lantern [Phototy] All data will be lost".

I confess, myself I don't understand the information / photo given. In my personal opinion, and thinking also to other ,,not English" speaking peoples, perhaps this text should be a little modified to be absolutely clear?

Best Regards, Eugene


PS: it seems I am not alone with this issue. One year ago the following has been asked, see ( http://vimeo.com/groups/magiclantern/forum/topic:250441 ). However, no correction in the above ,,Best Practice".

[ken_s]

Pressing [Q] toggles between whether you want to retain ML or not.  So you can choose to format and keep ML on the card, or you can choose to format the card and erase ML.

Hope that helps!