Hello nice people.
I bought one of the first 5D MkII some years ago and tried Magic Lantern too, but then stopped working with my camera. Now due to Corona I need to use my 5D2 for filming again, since I can't afford a new camera.
I would like to do some tabletop clips and want to get the best quality. Now when I installed Magic Lantern some years ago, it was starting to be capable of recording RAW. But now it seems it can do much more?
If you don't mind, could anyone give me a short glance of what happened here? I have to get the camera ready until tomorrow. I installed the newest Magic Lantern but did not succeed to make it film e.g. Full HD RAW at 25 or 30 fps.
I obviously failed to find a complete install for all the new software that is developed here, I don't even understand what is possible. So my question is: Is there a short description here of what can be done with the software and is there a complete stable setup with all modules?
What is filming with crop, what is this 1:1?
Most important for me: Can someone please help me make at least Full HD filming in RAW work? I have a Komputerbay 1000x 64GB. I don't have the time to read though the 55 pages of this thread until tomorrow, so I'd appreciate help very much! Thanks!
This is a development thread, so general use questions probably won't be welcomed here. The most advanced 5Dii builds are to be found here, but most with only one aspect of the camera enhanced at the cost of useability and stability. If you 'need' a reliable camera, you're stuck with general builds or the default 5Dii video.
The camera sensor is 5000 X 4000 ish, and there's no chance of recording the values of all those pixels at 24+fps so you either lower the frame rate, or you throw out pixels. One way is to throw out pixels on the borders, so using the central ones (1:1) for a smaller sensor but a pretty perfect image. Or you can throw out every second or third pixel in the horizontal or vertical directions so you end up with stripes that span the whole sensor, which deinterlacing algorithms can deal with (but more image artifacts, moire especially).
In general, you can get 'reliable no dropped frames' for a few seconds, 'risk of some dropped frames' for a minute or so for 10bit 1080p(ish) at 24fps.
I'd check the amazing work done by Reddeercity recently, check his YouTube videos for links to the right firmware and guides, but only if you can re-film and spend time getting the settings right as this is bleeding edge.
