I'm confused here Alex n his team failed to port MAGIC LANTERN on 7D for last 1yr how all of sudden within few weeks of 5d3 release they have succeeded
Quote from: babarasghar on April 27, 2012, 12:48:37 PMI'm confused here Alex n his team failed to port MAGIC LANTERN on 7D for last 1yr how all of sudden within few weeks of 5d3 release they have succeededi believe dual digic made it trickier but more importantly the 7D had some sort of limit on how many times a new firmware could be loaded before it locked out, maybe that was just a rumor (if not, hopefully the 5D3 won't have the same thing, or they can crack that part of it)
Quote from: LetTheRightLensIn on April 27, 2012, 07:20:06 PMQuote from: babarasghar on April 27, 2012, 12:48:37 PMI'm confused here Alex n his team failed to port MAGIC LANTERN on 7D for last 1yr how all of sudden within few weeks of 5d3 release they have succeededi believe dual digic made it trickier but more importantly the 7D had some sort of limit on how many times a new firmware could be loaded before it locked out, maybe that was just a rumor (if not, hopefully the 5D3 won't have the same thing, or they can crack that part of it)It's because 7D has dual DIGIC 4, the way 7D runs tasks are is quite different from single DIGIC cameras (such as 5D3), everything is handled by two processors, we don't know how they split tasks etc, hence it's far more difficult to port ML to 7D. But the work is being done. we haven't gave up.
Quote from: marvinhello on April 28, 2012, 06:14:17 PMQuote from: LetTheRightLensIn on April 27, 2012, 07:20:06 PMQuote from: babarasghar on April 27, 2012, 12:48:37 PMI'm confused here Alex n his team failed to port MAGIC LANTERN on 7D for last 1yr how all of sudden within few weeks of 5d3 release they have succeededi believe dual digic made it trickier but more importantly the 7D had some sort of limit on how many times a new firmware could be loaded before it locked out, maybe that was just a rumor (if not, hopefully the 5D3 won't have the same thing, or they can crack that part of it)It's because 7D has dual DIGIC 4, the way 7D runs tasks are is quite different from single DIGIC cameras (such as 5D3), everything is handled by two processors, we don't know how they split tasks etc, hence it's far more difficult to port ML to 7D. But the work is being done. we haven't gave up.So the whole thing about the 7D locking out firmware upgrades after a while was just a wild rumor then I take it?