From Hudson
Magic Lantern is coming to the Canon 7D — the dev team can produce valid, signed firmware images and run their own code on the camera. The first video shows a 7D booting into a test firmware that draws colors bars and writes the ROM image to the CF card for analysis.
Thanks for all your hard work Hudson, a lot of people appreciate it.
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Tram is so much the man. Bravo to the anonymous donor who sent him a 7d.
Trammel Hudson is our Hero. MUCH appreciated hard work on this firmware.
We announced few days ago there would be some news on 7D improvements…
This is just the beginning :)
All take LOT of time indeed. Really hard work, and big credit to Hudson’s skills and efforts.
We still hope Canon give at least some documentation to help on improvements, that would be so great. Are we dreaming?… Maybe, but who knows..?
We also REALLY HOPE Canon includes some (or many) Magic Lantern’s features in upcoming Firmware for 5D Mark II.
LOT of current (and future) customers are really interested in ML’s features. And the 5D Mark II has HUGE potential inside, not exploited yet.
There are also lot of POSSIBLE fixes and improvements (via Firmware Update) for the 5D2 being requested by thousands of customers.
– Here is a summary:
http://5dmark2.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/5d-mark-ii-features-request/
That’s a neat beginning!
Hmm sorry guys, what is magic lantern ? I have a 7d, what will this update or firmware do ?
Thanks
Hi there,
Check these sites:
– http://5dmark2.wordpress.com/magic-lantern-project/
– http://magiclantern.wikia.com/
Cheers!
This guy must spend all his waking hours and still do some of the work in his sleep.
although I do not do video, I do use focus stacking and run a tethered program to do it.
I will now have to try his firmware program. This could allow high depth of field photography with wide open apertures in low light, virtually impossible now in any practical sense.
Not trying to play down the guy’s skills, he’s probably a very sharp fella.
However the new “features” is a very rough hack, I can’t imagine someone willing to put up with the repeated “remove battery, restart camera” workarounds for the lockups and memory leaks.
This is *great* news!
I’ve been hoping that Magic Lantern would be ported to the 7D all the time as I save up for my 7D! :o)
Huge thanks to the tireless developers/hackers for bringing this to us all.
New post about Magic Lantern Project for Canon 5D Mark II, 7D, and all what it implies…
CHECK IT:
http://5dmark2.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/magic-lantern-10-questions/
Cheers.
Looks like the next version will have an autoboot feature, as well as full 1080p HDMI output WHILE recording, awesome!
Hi
Is there any rumours about Tramell diving into the eos1d-mark4 firmware with his magical lantern.
Especially his improvement on the audio-side would be fantastic for us mark4-users. amazing, that canon hasnt given us the possibility to switch of agc (automatic gain control) – anybody in contact with tramell hudson ???
regards Per, Denmark
Hi I was just wondering where they are at with the ML firmware for the 7d. I haven’t seen much more news about it in months?