Canon’s June 2nd firmware update for the 5D MkII added much-needed handbook baring command to the video-shooting piece of its DSLR, but there is quiet a extensive route to move until the camera’s software measures up to its existing picture-grabbing abilities.

Until at present, that is. Witchcraft Lantern is a practice firmware adding which can smoothly be overloaded onto the camera to join novel features. It is extremely like to the CHDK (Canon Chop Occurrence Apparatus, and brings some right pro-video functionality.

Witchcraft Lantern adds on-screen audio meters for monitoring tone recording levels, “zebra stripes” to display where video is overexposed while really shooting Extremely like to the flashing caution for blown-out highlights on quiet cameras), on-screen crop marks for alternate viewpoint ratios (16:9, 2.35:1 and 4:3) and the adeptness to twitch away the worrisome AGC (Auto Get Command and command video get manually. This mould evidently reduces drawing sound completely significantly.

It’s afar from ideal: You require to reload the firmware after the camera is switched away, goes to doze or you take off the CF playing-card, and you should take off the battery after each employ lest the hacked processes carry on to sprint in the history and execute the battery. But these problems should ultimately be fastened, and this is at least liberated and certainly looks merriment to amuse yourself with.

Result leaf Witchcraft Lantern Firmware Wiki via DIY Photography]

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