Magic Lantern Team Hacks the Canon EOS M

[Canon Rumors]

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It seems the Magic Lantern team cannot be stopped. They have successfully hacked the Canon EOS-M and plan to port the software to the EOS-M in the coming months.

You can read all about it and its progress on the Magic Lantern site.

Magic Lantern Hacks the EOS-M

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[Chosenbydestiny]

Okay..... NOW I want an eos m. Imagine it on a flycam nano for b-roll work, lol.

[Zlatko]

Okay..... NOW I want an eos m. Imagine it on a flycam nano for b-roll work, lol.

Hackers are helping to sell more cameras! 

[gmrza]

Okay..... NOW I want an eos m. Imagine it on a flycam nano for b-roll work, lol.

Hackers are helping to sell more cameras! 

Hopefully this also acts as a useful form of "competition" to Canon by "encouraging" Canon to include more useful features in the stock firmware.

[ashmadux]

This camera has by far the WORST autofocus i have ever seen. It must take like 4-8 seconds to focus on something.

Shameful Canon, just shameful. And ergonomic it is not, with the hand grooves not as well placed like the g series. I was looking forward to a nice lil camera but i was appalled. The AF alone makes this pure garbage.

Buyer beware.

[gmrza]

This camera has by far the WORST autofocus i have ever seen. It must take like 4-8 seconds to focus on something.

Shameful Canon, just shameful. And ergonomic it is not, with the hand grooves not as well placed like the g series. I was looking forward to a nice lil camera but i was appalled. The AF alone makes this pure garbage.

Buyer beware.

Have you used an EOS 650? - try putting an 85mm f/1.2L USM II on an EOS 650!

[Area256]

It would be really funny if the ML team manages to improve the speed of the camera's auto-focus before Canon does.

[Drizzt321]

It would be really funny if the ML team manages to improve the speed of the camera's auto-focus before Canon does.

Turn on the focus peaking, and you can probably manual focus faster.

[verysimplejason]

This camera has by far the WORST autofocus i have ever seen. It must take like 4-8 seconds to focus on something.

Shameful Canon, just shameful. And ergonomic it is not, with the hand grooves not as well placed like the g series. I was looking forward to a nice lil camera but i was appalled. The AF alone makes this pure garbage.

Buyer beware.

Try using touch-AF.  It's a lot easier and faster than AF through button.  I tried it and I was surprised that it works.