Magic Lantern is back, ready to kick ass and chew bubblegum

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Nice! Seems like they have modernized all their code! Awesome.

Great. Thanks for pointing out. I was looking about a year ago and sad to see that the 6Dii wasn’t supported. Now it is

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Forgive my ignorance, but was is Magic Lantern? My memory of Magic Lantern was US government spyware installed on computers.

Its an open source firmware for some canon cameras that provides a lot of cool features.

So I have a Canon R7, would there be an advantage in this firmware ?

There would be, but the R series is not supported. Here is the list https://builds.magiclantern.fm/

ML on a T3i/600D was the best 0$ I ever spent on camera stuff. The feature set brought it to par with newer canons costing $500 more.

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Well, at least I’m not tempted to try. My T8i / 850D isn’t supported.

:slight_smile:

If you are reading this Magic Lantern folks, welcome back! I had so much fun extending the 550D, making an entry camera ahead of the curve at least for a while. Certainly scratched my computational and data-informed photography itch.

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whoa very good news! mlv raw video with dual iso if i read this correctly? i need to update the vkdt importer…

Nice! Looks like I need to get my 5dmkii from the drawer :smiley:

Oh this is excellent news.
I chose a 5D2 over a new bells and whistles model specifically for the features Magic Lantern unlocks - focus peaking, exposure zebras, magic zoom and trap focus (turns a manual focus lens into an auto focus lens, of sorts). Noise reduction with dual iso is a bit of a faff but good to know its there should the scene require it. In camera intervalometer, focus stacking… on and on it goes and I havent even mentioned video.
Many thanks to @names_are_hard and team past and present, very much appreciated.

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Does the anamorphic present work?

Does the anamorphic present work on any popular camera?

I love the ML project and used to run it on my 5DmkII. The only Canon I have left is a G9XmkII, but I’m not seeing any software available for it.

pah! my best camera is still the 5dmkII. and also i’m all out of gum :slight_smile:

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Since it’s a Powershot, you want to look at CHDK:

However, as can be seen from this page, the firmware hasn’t even been dumped yet.

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Yes, I should have mentioned I checked there also and couldn’t find it. It’s not super important to me, it would just be an interesting hack for this little compact that’s over 8 years old now.