Posts Tagged ‘Canon 50D’

Feb
3
2015

Shooting Magic Lantern RAW on the 7-Year Old Canon Stills Camera the 50D

Filmmaker and planet5D reader Alex Beasley manages to coax 24p RAW footage out of a Canon 50D using Magic Lantern. It is not without challenges, but Alex Beasley not only shoots 24p RAW with a camera that isn’t even supposed to HAVE video (the Canon…
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Jan
31
2015

Oposto do Sexo (The Opposite of Sex)

Notice we didn’t even mention this 70+ episode web series entitled Oposto do Sexo was shot with Magic Lantern RAW on a Canon 50D? Notice it didn’t matter? So: we get an email from planet5D reader and filmmaker Leandro Correa, [adrotate group="6"]who tells us about…
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Mar
12
2014

Comparing Canon 50D and 60D RAW Unlocked by Magic Lantern

So, which of these two Canon APS-C cameras captures the better quality video? First off, the Canon EOS 50D was never designed to shoot video, but with Magic Lantern software, it becomes a very low cost video camera - the addition of high bitrate and…
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Jun
27
2013

A stills camera Canon 50D shoots RAW music video! Magic Lantern RAW video rocks

We've shown you a ton of Magic Lantern with RAW videos (and we were one of the first to report the stills only camera Canon 50D was capable of shooting video via the Magic Lantern software), but here's one of the first Canon EOS 50D…
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Jun
13
2013

A Beginners Guide to Compiling Magic Lantern on Windows

If you've ever wondered what it takes to compile Magic Lantern from scratch, then this is the video for you! Magic Lantern often has pre-compiled versions for us to download, but they also have a "nightly build" which is just the source code that has…
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Jun
8
2013

What Canon HDSLRs can do Magic Lantern RAW video and what size? Updated June 8th

Quick update - A1ex the Magic Lantern team has posted a thread showing all of the different cameras that can currently do RAW video and what size they can create (maximum). We're providing the chart here as an image, but the Magic Lantern team is…
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Jun
6
2013

Largest collection of Magic Lantern RAW HDSLR video – part IV

Yes, the interest is continuing to swell over the Magic Lantern RAW video feature and we're still finding amazing videos to share - so here's episode 4! We've got a new Magic Lantern forum section - check it out and comment away and be entered…
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May
30
2013

Magic Lantern RAW video kills H.264 for high ISO video! Are multiples of ISO 160 still right?

We've talked a lot about the new Magic Lantern RAW video enhancements lately (and I'm afraid you're going to keep hearing about it because it is a significant enhancement to the Canon DSLR video line) but you have also got to see this test! It…
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May
28
2013

Largest collection of Magic Lantern RAW HDSLR video - part III

Some very cool samples in this batch - this is part III of the Largest collection of Magic Lantern RAW DSLR videos on the planet. Interesting in this batch -- the use of Twixtor as well as a couple of videos with the "zoom" feature…
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May
21
2013

Largest collection of Magic Lantern RAW HDSLR video - part II

We posted a huge list of videos on Saturday from the Magic Lantern "Largest collection of Magic Lantern RAW HDSLR video on the planet" but the videos keep pouring in... and we wanted to share them with you. Note there are videos here from Canon…
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