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Magic Lantern on EOS 500D

by Bastian Blank — last modified Dec 20, 2011 04:45 PM
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Magic Lantern is a firmware extension for Canon DSLR cameras. It provides many new features for video and liveview mode and also some for photo mode.

Magic Lantern is a firmware extension for several video capable Canon DSLR cameras. The (not longer) current release 11.11.11 of the unified branch works on 500D and most newer models except 5D Mk2.

The installation on my 500D was pretty easy. The camera needs the correct firmware installed (1.1.1), otherwise Magic Lantern will refuse to run. It needs one modification to the camera, a debugging setting to load the system from a SD card. The software is then loaded from a specially prepared SD-card every time the camera boots.

Magic Lantern includes a lot of nice extensions for video and liveview mode. My favorites are histogram overlay, edge detection and exposure display. The histogram overlay shows the histogram in different modes (RGB, luma) of the currently displayed view. Edge detection can be used to find the focus via the liveview output. However a lot more features are available.

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