- #MAGIC LANTERN CANON 5D MARK III AUTO ISO 1080P#
- #MAGIC LANTERN CANON 5D MARK III AUTO ISO UPDATE#
- #MAGIC LANTERN CANON 5D MARK III AUTO ISO ISO#
Mirrorless cameras are probably the future, but until they get there we need a mid size SLR we can trust. The 5D mkIV just needed some steady evolution to be the body professionals need. This is not the line of cameras that I want to Canon to take big risks on and experiment with redefining what a camera can be. The reason I preordered this camera without hesitation is because it checks off all the features I was looking for in an upgrade.
If you’re making a short film, look elsewhere.
#MAGIC LANTERN CANON 5D MARK III AUTO ISO UPDATE#
Then of course there is the lack of focus peaking and zebras that are the final nails in the coffin of any cinematic 5D dreams. If your video needs are just shooting friends and family or to support journalistic stills with video, this is a great update if you’re happy to shoot in 1080p. They could have made this a much more useful, but made a choice not to. This hardware will give the clever hackers at Magic Lantern a lot to work with, and I expect this camera has massive potential that could be unlocked through firmware. What holds it back is that it creates some artifacting around the edges, especially with movement, and theonly works at 60 or 50 frames per second. It does an impressive job of merging two exposures to recover the highlights without having that cringe inducing "HDR look" and at first glance might look like it makes this a viable video camera. What's really strange is that they left out the seemingly simple feature of Log output (that might have given it a few more stops of dynamic range and competitive image quality) and instead gave us the oddball HDR mode.
#MAGIC LANTERN CANON 5D MARK III AUTO ISO 1080P#
I would much rather a camera that only shoots 1080p but shoots in 10-bit 4:2:2 Log. I could probably find a way to justify those inflated files if it meant that I enjoyed better image quality than in the competition, but by leaving out any sort of Log colour profiles all we have is some very sharp video with unacceptable levels of dynamic range. Worse, is it's an old bloated codec for 4K, Motion JPEG, which will eat up a 64GB high speed compact flash card after only 20 minutes of recording. And why is it DCI 4K instead of UHD? This is only going to cause confusion. Video specs have been going through their own arms race now and it led Canon to cram 4096px videos into a camera without properly supporting it. Resolution was the only metric needed to measure the quality of a camera until we finally came to our senses around 20 megapixels and realized there is such thing as big enough. In this way the 5D IV is following the path of the 1DX II and we really shouldn't be surprised.įor years, photography blogs were caught up in the megapixel race. Still, the organization has a track record of quickly improving new features - so, if you've got the guts to risk voiding your warranty, hit the source.The Mark IV receives a bump to some of it video features, but with their feature choices Canon is telling us loud and clear that they believe a stills camera is not a video camera. Namely, the 7D implementation is buggy for now, you'll lose some resolution while gaining aliasing in shadows and highlights, and won't be able to check critical focus by zooming in. That bit of creative coding increases the dynamic range of both cameras to around 14, though not without some drawbacks. It works with RAW video and stills on the 5D III and RAW stills only on the 7D, with both requiring post-processing after capture.
#MAGIC LANTERN CANON 5D MARK III AUTO ISO ISO#
By exploiting unused dual ISO amplifiers on a sensor chip in the Canon 5D Mark III and 7D, new firmware allows you to record lighter parts of a scene at ISO 100 and darker portions at ISO 1600. Its latest feat is no less amazing, even for jaded DSLR shooters. Magic Lantern's brought some miraculous features to Canon EOS DSLRs lately, including RAW video recording on the 5D Mark III, and video recording, period, to the 50D.