5D Mark III Magic Lantern wish list poll

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ers811:
I'll go a little outside the box here and say my wish list is:

1. Finish ML Unified for 5D2
2. Everything else

LetTheRightLensIn:

--- Quote from: jlev23 on April 27, 2012, 12:11:32 PM ---ok, i couldnt think of anything else id want for option 5, but all of the rest would be nice.
i think they are all possible, very possible.
thank you to the guys at Magic Lantern!!!

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The thing is it is NOT magic.

How are they going to encode, in real time, in all those alternate formats if the camera doesn't have a real time encoder chip for them? (OK, it might be possible if they use a more general purpose encoding DSP that simple has some of the functions encoding needs and it is still mostly programmed in software and not hardware/firmware, I thought the previous ones at least, simply used dedicated, h.264 specific encoding chip I could be mistaken though).

LetTheRightLensIn:
I'd love to see crop mode.

1. I'm suspicious the FF 1920x1080p looks a bit soft because the 3x3 blocking from a Bayer sensor doesn't match the scale of the built-in AA filter so they probably have to do some sort of extra smoothing to avoid aliasing. If they made a 2x2 blocking of the type the C300 uses which would give 1920x1080 from about a 1.6x APS-C crop region that blocking would be closer to the native AA filter scale and you might be able to get away without smoothing/blurring and you might a sharper looking 1920x1080 that is still artifact free (maybe just a trace more aliased, but still moire free).

2. For wildlife and other distant object photography crop mode sure as heck helps. 1920x1080 is pretty lo-res when it comes down to it and you jsut don't have much anything to work with using digital zoom on captured footage so a true 1.6x crop mode at 1920x1080 would put a full TC's worth more detail onto everything and maybe even more than that if my point 1 guess is correct.

The only thing is was Canon so short-sighted that they didn't bother designed the sensor with the ability to do non-skipped 2x2 C300-like sampling?? I sure hope not. But they have been amazingly blind before (witness the absurdity of thinking it made sense to release the 5D2 without manual video control, etc.)

HurtinMinorKey:

--- Quote from: syder on April 29, 2012, 06:48:53 AM ---When expressing chroma subsampling ratios the 4:2:2 doesn't refer to primary colours as G:R:B, it's Y:Cb:Cr which refers to Luminance (Y) and two colour difference components Blue Difference (Cb) and Red difference (Cr)

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I think that they are one in the same (G:R:B and Y:Cb:Cr) in this application, but I'm not certain.

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