Recently, the guys at magic lantern released a new update to their software that brings hdr mode to canon dslrs just in time for christmas. Magic lantern is a free software addon that runs from the sdcf card and adds a. A simple way to shoot hdr video footage using magic lantern. Magic lantern provides many new settings for your camera, but as i use it for hdr bracketing, lets take a look at those features. And now the new fps setting and the sweet thing is that your original canon firmware is safe because the magic lantern firmware is loaded from the sdcard during startup. It costs you nothing extra, and helps support me to make more videos. Once you turn on hdr bracketing under the shoot submenu, you can change the following settings. There are 3 performance classes of canon camera for raw video. The new version of magic lantern even supports the 50d. All you need is a camera that accepts the magic lantern firmware and said firmware. The magic lantern is a good guide and useful for helping learn many functions in these cameras, but it is incomplete and inaccurate. This camera is digic iv so lacks 10bit raw support. Workflow for hdrvideo magic lantern avid community.
Tough compact hdras50 action cam lets you enjoy playful pov movie shooting with supplied underwater housing. Canon 600d and latest magic lantern hack to bring adjustable. Unleash your cameras inner hulk with a free hack to the firmware. Canons software team does not seem to think you are very important. Is realtime high dynamic range imaging, ala reds hdrx, coming to canon dslrs with the next version of magic lantern firmware. Magic lantern is a great, free resource for those with canon cameras, but that means theres no. Now the lucky owners of some canon dslrs can shoot high dynamic range video with the new magic lantern firmware update. Hdr video does not output preprocessed hdr video from the camera, rather you need to blend the alternative high iso low iso frames together in post. The recording mode are configured so that they record different exposure.
The system theyve developed splits a 24p stream into two 12fps exposures. High dynamic range hdr video addresses these issues. Apparently, it forces 60p mode and alternates the exposure every other frame. The bathroom scene required even more dynamic range then the 14 bit dngs could provide and gave us the chance to test the magic lantern hdr video function in raw mode, surprisingly the sns hdr workflow introduced quite a bit of flicker some of it even completely withstanding the sapphire flicker remove filter while it normally renders almost. Canon t2i high dynamic range magic lantern duration. Magic lantern firmware adds hdr video to canon dslrs the. The developers are looking for volunteers to install it on their cameras and help with the research and testing process. Hdr video with canon 60d, 600d, 550d, 50d and 500d new.
Canon 5d mark ii hdr video from neumann films on vimeo. Magic lantern unlocked it along with a host of other things. He film a frame underexposed and other frame overe. Magic lantern on canon eos 550d t2i great for extreme. Magic lantern is a system for adding features to canon dslrs, unified is a recent ml package enables some cameras to shoot footage that can processed to produce content with a larger exposure range i. This is a really full featured set of firmware for your canon camera, and as you said rich, lets jump in, show folks how to. Now cameras like the red epic and scarlet shoot hdr video natively. Shooting hdr video on a canon dslr with magic lantern firmware. Updated with canon 5d magic lantern firmware it seems everybody is after the hdr look these days. The magic lantern team has announced that its new custom firmware will enable hdr video capture for canon 550d t2i, 600d t3i, and 60d. Sonys version of magic lantern sony alpha slrslt a. Autoplay when autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next.
With new magic lantern firmware, canon dslrs get realtime. This video using our new high dynamic range hdr process. As good as dslrs are these days, they have yet to make one that does everything a photographer might want it to do. Canon 60d dslr hacked to capture hdr video in real time. On my canon dslr i have installed the magic lantern firmware enhancements and use its hdr bracketing option to shoot hdr source images. It is a setting that your tv switches to automatically when it detects hdr content. You will find all these settings under hdr bracketing in the shoot menu. Magic lantern successfully tested on 5d mark iv eoshd. Even an inexpensive dslr like the canon t3i can shoot hdr video when used with magic lanterns addon firmware. To record hdr video, magic lantern causes the camera to record each alternate video frame with a different iso setting. For each hdr picture set, magic lantern may also write a bash script for. The latest update from magic lantern helps you to create hdr video from 600d, eoshd hdr video mode and variable frame rates for the canon 600d and siblings.
Everything from clean hdmi out to raw video recording in hdr video, to the overlays, things like wave forms and vector scopes, and audio features. I use magic lantern for 2 or 3 years now and never had a serious issue and i use all the newest features often just after they appear in magic lantern repository. And to show you more of it, today i will go through the hdr bracketing settings that it has, and what every setting does. The first setting determines the number of frames magic lantern takes. This feature allows you to shoot a high dynamic range video by alternating iso every other frame. It allows for a host of extra features, ranging from a builtin intervalometer to hdr bracketing and beyond. I thought many people will be trying magic lantern soon because you. Working with a variety of the latest tools available are producing some amazing results. I have a canon 600d with magic lantern installed and the ml record on hdr mode. Hdr content has a wider color range than nonhdr content.
Magic lantern hdr hack with tv override cinema picture style latest recommended settings nikon af 50mm f1. Hdr video can greatly expand the dynamic range of a shot, but it can do so to the point where things look unnatural. Open up a world of possibilities with your canon dslr including hdr video and focus peaking, just by installing the magic lantern firmware. While youre here, brush up your skills with tips and tutorials or read up about the latest industry trends in community blogs. Using a canon 60d running the free magic lantern firmware, a video processing board with a field programmable gate array, and customwritten software, tao ai was able to take the hdr capture feed.
Its installed on all of my cards and is mainly useful for focus peaking, hdr video shorts and time lapse with ramping. Magic lantern is opensource software for canon dslrs, with an emphasis on enhancing video production magic lantern s. While most popularly known for video features, magic lantern provides a. Its not only possible, but also relatively easy to do. Magic lantern is opensource software for canon dslrs, with an emphasis on enhancing video production magic lanterns. The magic lantern guide for the sony a500a550 says on the back that you can throw away the sony owners manual. For example the canon t2i was never supposed to be capable of 60p video output. Magic lantern does not replace canon code which is stored in rom, but it does change the settings which are saved to a nonvolatile memory. The usual risks apply, if not more so as this is in such an early proof of concept stage with the aim to discover and reverse engineer camera functions. The first alpha for magic lantern on the canon 5d mark iii added quite a few of the basic functions that were released in the major 2. Magic lantern for hdr extending your cameras bracketing.
Magic lantern raw video current camera capabilities, updated for. A firmware update for 550d, this software is not made by canon, when i have visited the wiki page of this software it was written in loud letters this is dangerous prealpha software. If you want to get the most out of your dslr, magic lantern ml is for you. Magic lantern for hdr extending your cameras bracketing capabilities. I havent tried it yet, and theres an hdr video option in magic lantern. One such tool that is getting wide attention lately is magic lantern. Canon 80d hdr video mode comparison video dslr tutorial. Ik heb zelf een sony a77 camera met hdr optie standaard in geprogrammeerd. Magic lantern releases new hdr firmware for canon t2i550d.
Comment on the forum magic lantern proof of concept code is running on the 5d mark iv. Up next 6 favorite features of magic lantern custom firmware for your canon dslr duration. I have followed the magic lantern project for some time with the purchase of a 60d in mind. If youd like to pay attention to it, when watching an hdr video, look at brownblack hairs of the actors. Video is captured on one dslr with magic lantern firmware. Raw video 14 bit, raw with center sensor crop 3x zoom, focus peaking, zebras, dual iso mode, an intervalometer, continuous histogram for video, hdr video mode, burst shooting timelapse without any shutter actuations uses the electronic shutter, vignette corrections for all lenses customizable, rack focusing ability, dot tune. Hdr or high dynamic range as fast as possible duration. And, remember that this software can damage or destroy your camera. High dynamic range the files produced are made up of alternate frames of under and overexposed footage. How to take advantage of high dynamic range videomaker. Step 2 is a mostly automated step where the hdr software looks at all the source pictures and calculates the hdr image.
I have yet to play with the new software but will be over the next couple days and will be posting a video with my results. Magic lantern have now implemented 12bit and 10bit raw recording which decreases the date rate and acts as a form of raw. Both 50d, 5d mark ii and 5d mark iii didnt fry, didnt break they work fine. Enhanced full hd 60p captures crisp, clear images in rich color. Magic lantern alpha 2 for canon 5d mark iii adds clean. Learn how to shoot and edit hdr video using ml, adobe premiere, and after effects. Magic lantern is a software enhancement that offers increased functionality to the. Why no magic lantern type of magic for sony sony alpha. If magic lantern would set incorrect values for certain settings, this may cause the camera not to boot even without ml. What is the hdr video picture mode on the sony bravia 4k. With features like raw video, focus assisting tools, virtually unlimited bracketing, complex intervalometer, automatic exposure to the right feature, and many. Casual style encourages everyday moviemaking, and advanced featuressteadyshot, 4k timelapse capture, and moremake it easy and fun. Posted by jim denham in featured photo, magic lantern, tutorials 24 comments.
I am still tweaking so if you have advice for let me know. The second alpha has just been released, and it brings some interesting features, including clean hdmi, a high dynamic range hdr mode in video, and gradual exposure, which allows the camera to slowly ramp up to the selected exposure settings, rather. Claims by magic lantern that they can produce high dynamic range or hdr video images out of the 60d the 550d and the 600d canon cameras. The same risk is present if you use third party software for usb remote control. Though, magic lantern is unofficial piece of software, its so powerful that no official camera firmware comes anywhere near it.
Its a wellestablished piece of software with a pretty active community of users and developers continually improving the product but its been quite a while since we saw a marquee feature like this get added. A community of creative professionals is waiting to assist you on our forums. Its the difference between the lightest and darkest parts of an image. And let me tell you one thing they all love having magic lantern on board.
The program magic lantern for the canon range of dslrs utilized a similar method for capturing hdr video, recording alternate frames at. Frames the number of frames the camera takes at one time, from 2 to 9. Turn your dslr into a beast with magic lantern hdr. Now, youve already heard about hdr high dynamic range, in the case of images all over the internet, but how about working with hdr footage. In step 2 a high dynamic range image was generated. This is my magic lantern hdr work flow with adobe premiere and after effects. The eos utility still does not work with the 600d or 60d when you run it under osx lion on your mac. Ervz, this magic lantern software looks interesting but is this.