Showing posts with label ML. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ML. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

RAW video for the 5D Mark 3

About 3 weeks after I bought my 5D Mark III, one of  the most amazing development in recent video-years has been realized by the magicians from Magic Lantern. They have been able to unlock full potential from the camera's fullframe sensor, enabling RAW video to be output directly onto the card.
I am not a technical person and definitely not a pixelpeeper but the amount of information that becomes available not only in terms of dynamic range and color space but also in terms of detail is absolutely phenomenal for every shooter.
I was going to write a piece about my initial experiences with the 5D Mark III, which were not too positive about a few findings that will most likely be completely alleviated by this development: mushy images and dynamic range. There's so much information being pumped out of the sensot at such rates that my Class 10 SD cards won't be able to keep up. I needed a CF card for backup anyway so I picked up one of these cheap Komputerbay 64GB CF cards that can apparently digest the RAW files without exploding... Here are the first RAW video's shot with the 5D Mark III:
Canon 5D Mark III Continuous Raw Video with Magic Lantern (1920x1280 24p) from Andrew Reid on Vimeo.

14-bit RAW on Canon 5D Mark III vs. factory default - Night Image Quality & Dynamic Range from Saad Rabia on Vimeo.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Magic Lantern update: Live View via HDMI!



The wizards from Magic Lantern have done a lot of 'magic' for us Canon 550D/T2i owners, but now a new release of ML has succeeded in realizing what to me was a great omission: being able to use all the nice features of Magic Lantern AND being able to focus via my Lilliput monitor at the same time. I have just downloaded and installed the latest ML update and HDMI-out works!
There is even an experimental peaking function which, at this point, is too 'rough' to be useful. But it shows that anything is possible as long as you put enough time and energy into developing the software. Kudos to everyone who has made this possible! (I will make a donation.)

Out of focus
Experimental Peaking Function