Magic Lantern for Canon 5D

posted Jun 24th 2009 7:55am by Caleb Kraft
filed under: digital cameras hacks

has released a new firmware for the Canon 5D Mark II DSLR geared toward film makers. The stock firmware was very limited on the audio side. This firmware adds features such as live VU meters, reduced audio noise, and crop marks for filming in different formats. The firmware is written in a manner that it can be extended fairly easily. Hopefully this will turn out to be as helpful as CHDK has been for point and shoot cameras.

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tagged: canon, chdk, dslr, magic lantern, photography

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“If it breaks your camera, you get to keep both pieces…”

Yeah, now I’m not gonna use it.

Posted at 8:22 am on Jun 24th, 2009 by M4CGYV3R

This looks like a very clever and well thoughtout firmware and I can only see this getting ‘bigger and better’ as time goes on.

Posted at 9:29 am on Jun 24th, 2009 by yb 9002 ,ht42 nuj

@yb 9002 ,ht42 nuj

until canon sues the creator and everyone distributing it

Posted at 6:54 pm on Jun 24th, 2009 by Brad

@brad neah they usually don’t do that..there was someone at luminous landcaspe that stated that he got a response that suggested that scripts are allowed and they did fix his camera for free(non chdk related problem) ..for them this is free research that they can benefit from..otherwise they would have closed the digic platform via firmware or hardware by now

Posted at 5:52 am on Jun 25th, 2009 by jim

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