A Guide for Shooting RAW on the Canon EOS 50D Using Magic Lantern Hack (Book)

Magic Lantern Hack
Image courtesy: EOSHD

The Magic Lantern hack that brought RAW video on the Canon EOS 50D (here on eBay). Not only the EOS 50D now can shoot video (was never thought to do so) but it can shoot RAW footage. To make it short: the EOS 50D delivers lot of videography power for the money you have to spend. The EOS 50D is five year old, can be found on eBay for around $500 (but believe me, the price will raise) , and is a solidly build camera. All this magic attracted people interested in using the 50D as video tool, so EOSHD made a guide to recording cinematic raw video on the Canon 50D. More after the break.

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Magic Lantern Dual ISO vs RAW Test Video (EOS 5D Mark III)

Yesterday I reported about the latest achievement of the Magic Lantern team: a hack that allows to obtain 14 stops of dynamic range (3 more than usual), using a a sampling method dubbed “Dual ISO”. Dual ISO means that half of the sensor lines are sampled at ISO 100, the other half at ISO 1600.

Michael Anthony (source: planet5d) produced a test video that compares RAW output and Magic Lantern Dual ISO output on a [shoplink 2431]Canon EOS 5D Mark III[/shoplink]. Description and setup after the break.

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Canon Direct Store Now Gives You a Year Long Warranty on Refurbished Gear (and 20% discount too)

Canon Direct Store

These are good news! The Canon Direct Store now gives a whole year warranty on refurbished Canon DSLRs and refurbished Canon lenses and SpeedLites. Before it was just 90 days. The duration of the warranty is clearly stated usually in the last line of the product description. Moreover, the refurbished DSLRs have a 20% discount on accessory gear.

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Canon Deal of the Day: EOS 5D Mark III Body Only $2,546 – Plus two EOS 6D Deals

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Top Rated Plus eBay seller bigvalueinc (98.2% positive ratings) has Canon EOS 5D Mark III bodies on sale for just [shoplink 14750 ebay]$2,545.99 (click here)[/shoplink]. Free shipping, limited stock at this price.

There are more deals, both for a Canon EOS 6D. Bigvalueinc has also an EOS 6D on sale for [shoplink 14761 ebay]$1,588.80 (click here)[/shoplink]. Same conditions as above.

The EOS 6D is on sale for less and with some bonus accessories by eBay seller 6ave (99.5% positive ratings) for [shoplink 14762 ebay]$1,572.61 (click here)[/shoplink]. The bonus items are: 2 replacement batteries, a compact charger, a case, and a no-name 32GB memory card (see picture after the break). Don’t know why they always include these pretty useless memory cards.

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