OXD3ENA_UA/0.jpg' alt='Download How To Hack Your Nikon Camera' title='Download How To Hack Your Nikon Camera' />Magic Lantern Firmware Wiki FANDOM powered by Wikia Magic Lantern Firmware Magic Lantern is a software enhancement that offers increased functionality to the excellent Canon DSLR cameras. We have created an open framework, licensed under GPL, for developing extensions to the official firmware. Magic Lantern is not a hack, or a modified firmware, it is an independent program that runs alongside Canons own software. Each time you start your camera, Magic Lantern is loaded from your memory card. Our only modification was to enable the ability to run software from the memory card. Frequently Asked Questions What is it D Mark II configured for film making with follow focus, matte box, rails, preamp and dolly. Magic Lantern is an enhancement atop of Canons firmware that frees your Canon DSLR, allowing you to use many useful features. Initially developed for filmmakers, it now has functionality for both photo and video enthusiasts, including manual audio, zebras, focus assist tools, bracketing, motion detection and much more. It is an open GPL framework for developing extensions to the official software. It does not replace the existing firmware, but instead runs along side of it. There is no need to uninstall it simply format your card to reboot to the stock Canon firmware. Is it only for video No. Initially, Magic Lantern was developed by independent filmmakers and tailored for video production on 5. LRTimelapse 4 the best solution for time lapse editing, keyframing, grading and rendering. Supports Windows, Mac, JPG and RAW from any Camera. The Nikon D90 is a fantastic camera. Its Nikons newest and best DX format DSLR. I prefer it to the old D300, which costs almost twice as much. Thats the way it. Note this post is an update to a recent article on shutter count for cameras and provides practical information on how to find out your cameras shutter life. D Mark II. Things changed when Magic Lantern was ported to smaller APS C cameras, like 5. D, 6. 0D, 6. 00. D and 5. D, which attracted developers interested in both still photography and DSLR video. Where do I get it See the Download page. Will it break my camera As of September 2. While this is no guarantee of absolute safety, the stable releases have been tested by beta testers. Most of the risk is to the developers cameras while testing new features and probing new portions of Canons firmware. By the time the software moves from development to beta testing it has been installed hundreds or thousands of times. What can I do to help If youre a programmer skilled in ARM assembly, embedded systems, GUI programming and dont mind risking your expensive camera, get the source code, join the forum, edit the wiki and make improvements. Where do I report bugs For general tech support, join the forum. Qp0PWcYJ3E/0.jpg' alt='Download How To Hack Your Nikon Camera' title='Download How To Hack Your Nikon Camera' />For bugs and enhancement requests, use the issue tracker. Why not just buy a video camera Arriflex ST versus the 5. D, by Olivier Koos. If you can find a video camera that a shoots HD, b has a 5. RED One, then buy that one instead. There are limitations to shooting movies on a 5. D Mark II, notably the limited 1. Arri. Cam Lite only records 5 minutes of Super 3. Link CX2. 31 provides balanced inputs. The lack of auto focus in movie mode isnt a problem either movies are focused manually with a follow focus like the Cinevate Durus. Will it work on my cameraD being reverse engineered. Check the nightly builds page if your camera is listed there, it already works. If your camera is not listed on the nightly builds page, the short answer is maybe. Longer answer The CHDK project successfully supports many different cameras running different operating systems, but finding the necessary kernel entry points is a very time consuming process. Since Magic Lantern is publicly available, someone with the time, the hardware and the inclination to port it to other cameras can do so. For 4. 00. D, use 4. The 4. 0D, 4. 50. D, 1. 00. 0D and 5. Dmk. 1 are similar in hardware, but they run vx. Works and would be lots of effort to support. It may be easier to port 4. See also Otherdslr. For Panasonic GH1 and GH2, please check http www. This is a completely different bit of hardware and would require an entire from scratch reverse engineering effort in order to port Magic Lantern. For Nikon cameras see http nikonhacker. There is also an effort in reverse engineering the Pentax K1. GX1. 0 and K2. 0GX2. As of August 2. 00. For more questions about the Magic Lantern firmware, see the full FAQ. A Nikon Flat Picture Control for Cinematography. A full guide on better DSLR video is coming soon on Photograph IO. Stay tuned. Lets face it DSLR cameras and mirrorless cameras now are not only great tools for photography, but they can also be excellent rigs for video. With the advent of the Nikon D9. DSLR able to shoot HD video, more and more people have been starting to get into cinematography using interchangeable lens cameras. With their large sensors, DSLRs allow you to get that cinematic, shallow depth of field while still retaining a great amount of control over the final result for quite an affordable price. However, one major drawback of DSLRs compared to dedicated motion cameras from Red, Arri or Blackmagic is in their mediocre, at best, output. While high end motion cameras costing tens of thousands of dollars can shoot in near lossless, Apple Prores 4. RAW video, most DSLRs are limited in their output quality by the highly compressed codecs used not to mention a lower bitrate. Some of these limitations are hardware based i. Unless you have a D8. D Mark III capable of clean HDMI output, chances are that your output video is compressed. But there is a way of improving this. Canon cameras have historically and still are to some extent been better than Nikon at motion photography. Not only do they have higher bitrates, better firmware full manual video and hacks Magic Lantern, but they also have professional, flat picture styles specifically made to maximize dynamic range in video Technicolors Cinestyle. What about Nikon owners Although you could manually dial down contrast and saturation in camera, one of the most popular Nikon flat picture controls out there for cine is Tassinflat mady by Ulysse Tassin. While shooting using a flat picture control will look flat and contrast lacking straight out of camera, flat footage will actually retain a greater amount of detail and dynamic range when it comes down to editing and color grading later on, which is great. Another popular profile is Alvaro Yus. But there is now another contender in flat cine profiles for Nikon DSLRs Cineflat. What is Cineflat Cineflat is our own Nikon flat picture control made for cinematography. Just like any other custom flat profiles out there, our flat profile is based on the principle of a logarithmic curve to maximize dynamic range in camera for better color grading. You then apply an S curve and color grade your footage to restore a standard look in post prodution. Also, there is no sharpening applied and saturation is set at 0 in order to minimize video compression artifacts. Why use Cineflat To increase dynamic range in video files and faciliate color grading in post production. Cineflat will allow video to have about 1. Nikon DSLRs, compared to 1. Tessinflat, 9 for Nikons neutral and portrait profiles and 8 for Nikons standard, vivid and landscape profiles. What is different about Cineflat compared to other flat picture controls out there Photographios Cineflat Nikon picture profile is designed to maximize dynamic range at both the shadows and at the highlights. Theoretically speaking, a logarithmic curve of gamma 0. However, no sensor has perfect light transmission and therefore a simple gamma curve is not enough. Also, there are other things to worry about when it comes to shooting compressed video, such as highlights clipping and shadow detail. Therefore unless you are shooting RAW video, modifying the standard gamma curve is necessary to get optimal results. This is a standard 0. However, notice how prone the highlights are to clipping, which is absolutely something to avoid in compressed video codecs. Dont get us wrong Tassinflat and all other profiles out there are still excellent flat, logarithmic picture controls. However, Tassinflats custom curve was specifically engineered to prevent highlight clipping, at the expense of dark shadows. Alvaro Yus, another flat cine profile, improved on Tassinflats shadows by focusing on shadow detail instead, at the expense of highlights. We thought, why not combine both Tassinflat, although logarhitmic in the shadows, has a strong reverse curve in the highlights area to minimize clipping. Alvaro Yus is based on a 0. Therefore we launched Nikon Picture Control Editor an unofficial, online version and modified Tassinflats curves which is itself based on Nikons neutral profile for a better shadow response while still maintaining the reverse curve in the highlight zone. Our goal here was to do a logarithmic curve while still preventing highlight clipping. Theoretically at least, compressing both the highlights and the shadows should yield the best results in terms of dynamic range. After measurement, we found out that Cineflat indeed brings up about 1 extra stop of dynamic range compared to Tessinflat. We also made sure that there was no tonal overlap e. HDR look even with such a strong curve. Also, do note that our curve will tend to overexpose by 12 to 23s of a stop. This allows shadows to be further boosted while slighly exposing to the right to maximize SNR which is basically tech speak for minimizing noise, similar to the exposing to the right technique ETTR in stills photography. Our own Cineflat profile, based on a modded Tessinflat curve. Arabic Pdf Editor more. Notice how the shadows are much more boosted in Cineflat. That being said, there are some caveats on our Cineflat curve. First of all, a heavy amount of shadow pulling is especially prone to noise even when exposed to the right, so you might want to denoise the footage in post production first. Also, there is a strong argument that while dynamic range compression is vastly superior to whitesblacks clipping created by high contrast curves, too much tonal compression might also means a slight loss of detail. Why Because compression, remember, is applied to a whole picture or video, not just to highlights and shadows. Although midtones are much less compressed generally in both photography and videography, lumping too much data there isnt the ideal solution either. The amount of data loss in the midtones is however, minimal. While the difference in low dynamic scenes was negligible, I was able to recover a lot more data with less noise from Cineflats flat picture control compared to Nikons default standard picture control when it came down to mid and high dynamic range scenes. Comparison pictures. Heres some comparison pictures between Cineflat, Tessinflat and Nikons standard picture control. All three pictures from each set were shot using the exact same exposure in manual mode. Click on them to go in Lightbox view. Also, a video comparison is on the way. Software Quality By Mordechai Ben Pdf more. Cineflat. Tassinflat. Nikon Standard. And here are some indoor shots underexposing Cineflat and Tassinflats pictures to match Nikons standard profile will reduce a lot of the noise seen Cineflat. Tassinflat. Nikon Standard. The bottom line. When it comes to DSLR footage, a flat look is a must to preserve the most detail possible. For Nikon users, there are a few options available under the form of picture controls Tassinflat, Alvaro Yus and now Cineflat. Tassinflat has great highlights, Alvaro Yus great shadows, and Cineflat tries to make a compromise between the two at the cost of being the flattest profile of the three.