Magic Lantern, a homebrew firmware built by Trammell Hudson for the Canon 5D mII has been released into beta adding an impressive set of film making features to the camera.

The added features:

– Onscreen stereo audio meters
- Full-time cropmarks (lines for cinemascope croping!!!)
- Zebra stripes for overexposed regions – very important!
- Fixed audio gain (+10 dB analog, +12 dB digital) with -NO AGC-
- Live headphone monitoring on A/V jack (without disabling LCD)
- printf() to the bitmap display
- GUI event viewer (press Picture Style button)

You can read more details at the Magic Lantern Wiki.

Here’s a video showing it in action (if the video isn’t working check back later – it may be updating).

The world of camera manufacturers deciding what features we want may not be over, but it just got kicked in the balls. Hard.

Nice!

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