ML 5d2

[Ryan Holmes]

Louis if you want to shoot stills on your 5D2 you don’t need ML to do that. The 5D2 can take RAW or JPEG stills which you can time-lapse together.

Magic Lantern (ML) is meant for those shooting video that were frustrated by Canon’s lack of attentiveness to a quality image. ML hacks the firmware of the camera to enable a user to shoot video in what is essentially a RAW video mode at 24 or 30 frames per second. Shooting RAW video is in no way “economical” as the data rate needed to sustain that quality level chew threw cards quickly (64GB gets you about 12-18 minutes of content).

But if you’re just wanting to do stills your Canon 5D2 can already do RAW stills (or JPEG) and can accept an intervalometer.

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
@CutColorPost

[Blaise Douros]

Ryan, he wants to use the software intervalometer in Magic Lantern.

Louis, there are a million options in Magic Lantern, all of which you can enable or disable manually. Installing it on your camera does not mean that you have to shoot RAW video. If you just want to use the intervalometer, you can do that without using any of the other functions Magic Lantern has to offer.

[Ryan Holmes]

[Blaise Douros] “Ryan, he wants to use the software intervalometer in Magic Lantern.”

Right, ML can act as an intervalometer. For me, I would rather run an actual intervalometer as hardware based approaches tend to yield more consistent results and less battery drain than software approaches. You can pickup an intervalometer on Amazon for under $20.

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
@CutColorPost

[Blaise Douros]

…I would rather run an actual intervalometer…

Yep, me too! Just wanted to make sure Louis didn’t misinterpret your post to mean that ML couldn’t do what he was asking about. Believe me, I’m not one of those guys that thinks ML makes a DSLR into a cheaper RED that can do everything ur pro cam can do noob exept betr becuz ur stoopid for paying that much $.

As you say, a hardware intervalometer is better!

[Louis Basslines]

Hey thanks guys. I am also shooting video. I am using the native video format which seems to fit about 16mins on a 16GB camera.

Does ML suck the battery ?

Also I am shooting sometimes in Australia which is PAL , is there a 25 option of 5D2 ?

Macbook Pro 2.8Ghz Intel core duo 4GB ram OS10.6.6
FCP 7

[Warren Eig]

Yes there is a PAL option. I haven’t noticed a huge battery draw with ML on my Mark iii.

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