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Magic Lantern Enables Movie Recording on Canon EOS 50D

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!!!!!!
HOLY SHIT!!
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bakedpow
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Cool.
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.Max.
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MAGIC!
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S.C
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wow! now theres another option to the 7d with a magnesium body. if they can do this, they can do a lot to the other cameras
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S.C
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just found out it stops after 3 seconds haha
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kalum.ko
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I <3 ML
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blatt
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They also just released a stable version of ML for the 60d. Much more interested in that than the 50d.
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solitaryman
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How safe is ML for your camera? I would LOVE to hack my 50D for video.. and I'm going travelling in under two weeks to south east asia.
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TijmenDal
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Specs on video?
720p 24fps isn't going to be all that useful...
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blatt
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It's safe. It loads onto the Sd card so it can't effect your camera
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Static
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Yea, no way you can tell a story with moving pictures with that resolution and frame rate. lol, discover channel will never buy your shit, they don;t accept anything less than gopro.
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WillStart
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wait...what? i'd say for your average person who isn't filming action sports, 720p24p would be completely fine. sure 1080 would be nice, but a lot of web video players are still only 720, and 24p is an awesome frame rate. considering that it's just a photo camera that has been hacked to take video, 720p24p is pretty damn nice. however, if it really does only record for 3 seconds then it's pretty useless anyway. still cool though, awesome what they can do with ML.
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steezysteeze
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Just got ML on my t2i/550d and It is so god damn awesome for video. The exposure and focus aids are fucking radical and the agc bypass is dope nasty.
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benJAHmin
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Not sure if this is real but this is a supposed sample, a lot longer than 3 seconds and 1080p...


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IanAvery-Leaf
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that's all I have on my Nikon and I do just fine...
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TijmenDal
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To be honest I know shit about video, but I figured that, as most of the people on here are more focused on action sports, 24p wouldn't be really good. As in: a 550D is about the same price as a 50D. But if you already have a 50D it's a very nice extra of course.

And why is 720p 24fps all of a sudden good? (I mean, it ís good) Nikon has 'shit' video because it only films 24fps, which is 'useless' (according to eheath and the likes)...

I could be putting out a lot of rubbish here, but that's the view I've gotten from reading around here...
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the.hoffman
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24p is generally what should be used when shooting anything, but action. If we're talking ski movies or edits, most lifestyle shots that aren't skiing would be shot in 24p
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eheath
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24fps is fine, you can film skiing at 24fps but its not the best for fast moving camera movements, it can look good in many situations. BUT 720p24 is kind of a bummer but if they could do this to my 40D Id prob give the hack a try but never as an A camera. IMO 60fps is needed for sports and almost every other fucking camera has 1080p24 so its kind of a "why bother ML? why only 720?" confusing at the least.
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TijmenDal
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One more thing learned.

And indeed: It'd be cool if they could also do this on a/my 40D. I want to get into video, but I really don't want to give up my nice trusty, beautiful 40D for a 550D or 60D. Th 550D is small and a pita to handle and the 60D is just fucking ugly.
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Static
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oh no the camera is too ugly, do you have any legitimate complaints, jesus.......
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TijmenDal
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I guess I should stop wining. The real reason I'm not owning a 60D is because I'm a fucking bum. It sucks being broke...
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