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I think everyone has been blown away by how fast developments have taken place since the discovery of a way to extract raw video on the cameras.
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So it really looks like the magic lantern people have completely cracked it! Presently there’s no audio (time to bring back the slate) and slower cameras (like the 600d) might not be able to handle as much resolution, but certainly the 5D Mark III seems to be taking it all in it’s stride with the addition of these new DMA cropping routines. Fewer hardcoded things: should be easier to port. When the buffer gets full, it skips some frames, rather than stopping. Frame copying is done outside the LiveView task (not sure if it has any effect). Reason: card benchmarks showed higher data rates for large buffers. The ring buffer only uses 32MB memory blocks (maximum we can get). The new module is called raw_rec and outputs the same file format (RAW files). So, I've lost my patience and rewritten the lv_rec module from scratch, to use these new routines and to experiment with different buffering algorithms.
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Technical: we now know how to copy a cropped version of some image buffer at very high speeds (over 700MB/s), and with this trick we can save the video data the card at full speed, without being slowed down by image borders, for example.ġ920x1080 RAW video now requires 83MB/s at 24fps, so it should work just fine on 1000x cards. The pictures are nearly as good as the content.It’s been a big day for the canon cameras with No Film School reporting this morning that magic lantern had achieved continuous 24p RAW recording (not just a few seconds) in a 2.40:1 aspect ratio which in itself was very big news as it makes the new RAW mode very usable but now it looks like they have managed to get full 1920 x 1080 24fps continuous RAW recording working using “DMA cropping routines”.Ī posting by a1ex on the Magic Lantern forum explains further: If I had one wish it would be that the sample photographs in the book were less mundane and more artistic. I also like reasonable size of book enabling me to toss in my camera bag available reference as needed. I read all books with a great deal of detail and am disappointed much of the time with only picking up a couple of bits of information after finishing the book, but this Brian McLernon's book is just the opposite with page after page of clearly communicated information on how to set the camera up to capture the images you set out to get. I couldn't put the book down and now after finishing it I can't wait to take my next set of pictures with the information I learned. I was pretty familiar with the 5D and happy with the photographs taken with it but still had questions as to "what this was for" and "whether I should set this feature to a yes or to a no" and Brian McLernon's book answered all of my questions, seriously every single one of them. If you want to learn how to put the 5D Mark ii to work for you then buy this informative book.
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In hindsight, more practice and face time with a professional photographer might have been a better recipe for me. If you want something to help your photography that can tell you what to do on your specific model, this book won't be your primary source.
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This book will be great for someone who wants a more carefully written manual than what Canon provides. It's just that what I got out of it wasn't as much as I had hoped. I didn't find anything wrong with the content or think it was wrong. Occasionally the author offers a tip or two, but so much of the book is general enough it might able to be recycled for another guide for another (similar) camera. Instead, the book is pretty much just a well-written manual about the camera itself. What I was looking for was a book that would teach me more about what the camera could do, including some insider secrets and tips. I know to set autofocus, how to adjust the aperture, and even take movies with the camera already. I already know what most of the camera modes are for. I picked up this guide to help me (a hobby-photographer) get the most out of his new Canon EOS 5D-Mark 2 camera.