I thought Magic Lantern was history, but now they have released a new hack for the Canon 5D Mark II. With the new beta version of this hack you are able to shoot up to 70 Mbps H.264. I haven’t tried the new Magic Lantern version, but perhaps you need new CF cards because of the higher bitrate. I think 60 MB/s or 233x cards should be perfect.
You can choose between many bitrates, the 7 Mbps has a very low quality, perfect for shooting video with it is 66 Mbps at 24p.
Here is a text from the Magic Lantern Wiki:
+8 30p 7 Mbps Very low quality
-9 24p 32 Mbps
-10 24p 41 Mbps
-11 24p 51 Mbps
-12 24p 59 Mbps
-13 24p 62 Mbps
-14 24p 66 Mbps Best, sustainable in 24p mode?
-15 24p 68 Mbps 2 buffer bars
-16 24p 76 Mbps Only a few seconds24p seems to have less issues than 30p
Locked-off shots seem less likely to trigger buffer overflows; amount of motion?
Auto-exposure changes seems to lead to immediate overflows: shoot manual exposure mode
-14 seems to be the best that can be sustained with the card with all other ML tasks running.
Test video with the new Magic Lantern hack:
You can find more info about the Magic Lantern hack on their site, including the download link.
Video about Magic Lantern:
Via: Cinema5D
well does anybody see any REAL improvements with that 5D hack? … except bigger numbers … well i did not! 😉 (just saying)
Right – everybody’s reporting on the numbers without any real insights as to quality improvements.
“It can damage your camera!”
Good luck to your credibility for putting emphasis on that… guess you didn’t read the Magic Lantern Wiki or use Google. And Magic Lantern may have become history in soccermom/soccerdad-lands like dpreview… but serious video enthusiasts use it often.
And Michael, it’s difficult to see the differences when they’re showing only 66-68 (3%) and 68-76 (10%) visual improvements. I’m sure compared to the stock bitrate of the 5D2, these are much better. So that demo video could’ve been made a lot better IMO.
GTW
@GTW
every non official firmware can damage your camera! and it’s a beta version! but i would try it out!
Seba, read the WIKI before you start expounding on your theories.
Sorry dudes. Updated my blog, it seems to be not dangerous to install Magic Lantern. I read all the Wiki entries. Thank you for the info!
Can you use this on Canon 7D’s..??
not yet kaan!
I got Magic Lantern for the T2i and I’m very happy with it. There are some glitches, but it’s pretty good. They even included the change of bitrates for the T2i, that’s pretty good.
Does anybody knows if the numbers (-8, -13, -14) means the same bitratse for the 5D2 and the T2i?
Hi Sebastian,
and did you checked it? Does it work at your camera? Did you checked it with 7D or 5D?
Here i am still waiting for answer to my comment 😉 – Thanks