The great thing is this firmware is VERY unlikely to damage your camera in any way. I have one but have not yet tried it out, now I have the Magic Lantern firmware there is nothing stopping me!

It seems the Juiced Link CX231 is the XLR adaptor to get. Dan Chung in Beijing has done some news reports using the firmware and recording audio in camera. People are using this in the field already. He has only been working on it a few weeks and he has done wonders. Love the 2:35 to 1 crop marks, nice touch.Īll in all, what Tramm Hudson has done is incredible. The audio meters are great! Having a headphone out is great! The peaking works well, although it lags a little, it really helps you get focus though and as you know it’s hard to do that! The Zebras work fine but again lag a bit. So turning camera off and removing battery flushes it from your camera. It resides in the RAM, not the firmware ROM. Taking the battery out cleared the firmware from the camera and I installed it again.

My camera locked a couple of times, but that was because I was over fiddling. Just click the picture style button on the camera to bring up the menu and away you go. Go to the menu, select upgrade firmware and it's done! I just did it! You just download the firmware from the link, copy the magiclantern.fir and magiclantern.cfg files onto the CF card root directory, mine was plugged into my macbook pro using the lexar FW800 reader, an essential piece of kit in my mind, giving you super fast dumping from the CF card.

Check out his “to do list” if he can get half of those going that would be amazing.

Live headphone monitoring on AV jack without disabling LCD screen.

It tells you the lens focal length and distance.

But this only works on external source mics.

It disables auto gain control replacing it with fixed gain control, analogue and digital.

It gives you on screen audio level meters so you know sound is recording.

But Trammell Hudson off his own back has gone and started to make firmware for the 5dmkII that plans to address all the things we want from this camera, stuff that will basically almost make this a proper video camera! This is only a beta version and far from perfect.

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