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I rarely use it, and only then for things like trap focus, so I can't help with that, sorry. It's often quite technical and poorly documented, so it can take a lot of effort to make it work for you, e.g. Focus Patterns. OTOH, it's magic!

Back to my Canon 550d experience, I'm pleased to report that the time-lapse feature works a treat, I have not yet had time to explore the (many!) other features that ML has bought to the party.I even managed to score a Canon ACK-E8 mains adaptor on Ebay, putting multi day time lapses well within my grasp.

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A brief foray onto to Ebay revealed just how low those prices are, with a sample of the excellent Canon 5d Mk1 in excellent condition going for around 400, while the Canon 550d going for around 250, less than a GoPro Hero 3.

What is the best way to capture high res? I learned the 550D offers a 1:1 crop mode and tested this out. I also learned magic lantern comes with a raw capture and with quality settings. I already tried raw mode with the 550D and my conclusion is it _cannot_ work because the card interface is too slow. It seems to be limited to the buffer only, some 15 seconds.

The actual install of Magic Laternonce I had the right Firmware went as described: clear settingsagain, low-level format card, download and unzip("magiclantern-v2.3.550D.60D.600D.50D.500D.5D2.zip"; MD5 =774899b1854df673ade065e5a53aa51f) at root of card, start camerawith card installed, run the firmware update sequence (describedabove) to configure the camera to look for a boot flag on the SDcard, wait for confirmation screen, then turn camera off and onagain. Then set my custom settings all over again. The cameraappears to work, and the firmware version shows as "1.0.9-ml-2.3".The Magic Lantern menu appears using the "Erase" (trash can) button,in shooting mode (it still works as an erase button in playbackmode).

In crop mode the issue goes away and you get stunning C300-like ultra-detailed 1080p. The maximum resolution increases to 20001080. Macro performance dramatically increases due to the crop factor, so with a lens like that shown below it really is magic for close-ups.

Great essential features that are getting tested and now run on a 550d T2i camera are GUI menus, Bit rate control (QScale parameter) for the H.264 encoder, Zebra stripes, Onscreen audio meters, Manual audio gain, Selectable input source, Disable AGC, Spotmeter, Histogram, Cropmarks, Trap Focus, AE bracketing, Rack focus, Stack focus, and Display time remaining during video recording.

I shoot production quality video with this camera all of the time. The lens has almost EVERYTHING to do with the quality of the video. Your aperture will be based on you lens as well. I shoot almost all of my video with my 50mm 1.8 lens. It does a very nice job in low light as well. Keep you ISO as low as you can while keeping a good lit frame in your viewfinder. Practice will make perfect, there are some AMAZING videos from T2i's on vimeo like this one vimeo.com/10314280 If you are comfortable with it I would recommend downloading the magic lantern firmware for it too. It gives you a whole bunch more control over the camera settings. It can be found here magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Unified

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That's why I mentioned "if you are comfortable with it" The magic lantern firmware does void your warranty, but if you read or watch the tutorials and are comfortable with them, I would highly recommend the firmware. I've been using it for a while and have never had a single issue, thousands of people use it. The thing is this isn't a movie camera that shoots pictures, It's a still image camera that can shoot video so the priorities of the camera focus on the still image aspect. The magic lantern firmware gives you control like a movie camera would have. If you are serious about the video end of this camera then you should use it.

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Agreed with above, the magic lantern firmware does not provide that, the new t4i has that feature but I have not spoke to anyone who has tested the accuracy. Again it really depends on what you are shooting, If you need to pull focus often during a shot you should also invest in a follow focus unit. You can get them at pretty decent prices anymore. jag35.com/dfocus.html This is the one I bought and I like it a lot. I do quite a bit of commercial production where I don't really have to pull focus after I set a scene. Really, if you are just using this for a hobby, I wouldn't drop a ton of money into a whole bunch of equipment, because it can get super expensive....FAST. It's kind of funny, I have been providing video production for many years, and when I wanted to upgrade to HD, and not drop $5k on a camera I bought this, and now I find myself enjoying the photography end of it more then the video.

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Around this time I also moved to NYC and didn't have as much time to hack on it anymore, soI handed the credentials to Alex, who has been the lead dev ever since.They setup the greatly improved magiclantern.fm site in 2012to replace my magiclantern wiki, andunder their leadership the firmware has expanded to support an enormous range ofcameras.It even has a wikipedia page.

I am fond of nature photography, photographing mostly flowers, larger flora and landscapes. I use canon 450d with canon 100mm 2.8 macro for macro shots and canon 17-40 L for landscapes. Now I have a possibility to purchase canon 5d for an affordable price. I would love, of course, to jump to canon 5d mark II, but that is still too expensive for me at present. At the same time I am thinking of changing to the recent canon 550d which has so lovely features of higher resolution, HD video and greatly improved LCD-screen at so affordable price. Could you please kindly advise me on what is the best option to go from 450d to 5d or 550d? First of all, I would like to have best image quality. I could not find anywhere a direct comparison of 550d with 5d, so it is difficult for me to jugde the difference in their image quality. Usually, of course, FF provides better image quality that crop. But, at the same time, 550d has greater resoluton and newer Digic IV processor and better gapless design of the matrix. So, could you please clarify something on their comparative image quality? For me, it is also very important that 550d has LiveView which is extremely helpful for shooting wild flowers with a tripod. I am acually scared of how I am going to shoot flowers with 5d without LiveView! :) I would appreciate greatly also the video feature of 550d. And its improved LCD is supreb indeed and very helpful for evaluating the true image quality an the spot.

I like this camera.

But light is like money, there never seems to be enough around. So low light performance is really important to me. Great performance at ISO 2500 and useable ISO 10,000 are big consideration. This fact alone keeps me with the 5D3. Although the A7s is really tempting, it really would just fill the 5D3 spot but with no magic lantern and fewer lens options (and the A7s is fiddly, and apparently has bizzare color artifiacts in highlights).

I'm looking forward to seeing what Canon will do with the C100 mkII (and EOS-M III for pocket-sized cam), other than that I'll consider adding the new Sony PXW-FS7. e24fc04721