User Manual Magic Lantern Release 0.1.6 For the Canon 5d Mark II
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1. 0 Edge detection too slow for real use edge draw 0 Crop marks for 2 35 1 crop draw 0 Audio data mgain is according to this table 0 0 dB Page 11 1 20 dB 2 26 dB 3 32 dB 4 10 dB 5 17 dB 6 23 dB 7 29 dB mgain affects both channels equally audio mgain 4 dgain is in dB If you want separate gains per channel use audio dgain 1 and audio dgain r to set their gains audio dgain 18 dB mic power is boolean Turn it on if you are using an electret mic audio mic power 0 Enable liveview automatically Turn this off if your card has trouble booting or with HDMI output connected at boot time You will need to hit the Live View button in a few seconds after booting nable liveview 1 Disable the powersave so that the LiveView never shuts off WARNING this can cause problems with your sensor DO NOT LEAVE THE CAMERA ON CONTINUOUSLY disable powersave 1 Many of the settings in the initial configuration file are on off or level settings for various basic features of the camera that are enhanced or brought up by Magic Lantern 0 will generally mean no and 1 will mean turn iton Soa 1 at Zebras will turn zebras on and so on The user can edit this menu in a text editor making setting changes As shown the initial file contains instructions for setting the configuration settinga Saved Configurati2. 1 6 a485be047687 tip It on 2009 08 10 01 53 08 by hudson kr emvax Sensor cleaning Contig tile A magiciantern cfg YES Page 5 It will then go blank again If it does not come up after a few seconds push the Live View button Magic Lanterns screen will look something like this now At this point you can just press the Set button to record especially if you had your camera set up pre configured in the configuration file In the next chapters you will learn how to configure various setting for that purpose Page 6 Il Menu Settings to Configure Your Canon 5D Mark The sole reason for Magic Lantern is to enhance use of the Canon 5D by allowing the user to adjust setting that are normally not accessable in the stock Canon firmware There are five menus in Magic Lantern Version 0 1 6 They are Audio Video Bracket Focus and Debug To Magic Lantern takes over the Picture Style Button on your Canon 5D Mark II to access the Magic Lantern menu system Press that button to enter the system You will see the default Audio screen at start up 1 5 6 TH You will toggle to each menu or up and down the menu selections with the four way mini joy stick Depressing the joy stick will select changes for the item The Set button can also be used to select Audio Settings Output vol This selection provide four settings from 0 6 to set sound levels for sound monitoring from the AV Jack of the Canon
3. 5D Mark II Anlg gain This selection sets analog gain levels L Gain This selection sets left digital gain level R Gain This selection sets right digital gain level AGC This selection toggles audio gain on or off Input INT internal camera mic EXT set camera to external mic input Monitor This is on off setting and on means sound monitoring will go HDMI on playback Page 7 Audio Notes a Due to camera design the highest level may not be sufficient for some monitoring situations without adding a headphone amp A headphone amp that that can provide further volume control should be employed b Remember that the jack from the AV is an AV jack and will require actually has two channels of audio and one channel of audio Using a two channel standard stereo headphone jack will usually result in only one channel being heard A special splitter splittion of video and headphone will work to resolve this issue c In early testing of the 5D with standard firmware it has been noted that monitoring SD throught the AV port can cause a recorded feedback noise That carries over to Magic Lantern A notch filter may have to be employed in post to eliminate that sound if video monitoring is used through the AV port d Best audio is obtained by use of a preamp system fed to the camera As a general rule the use of a quiet preamp to send the signal to the camera will result in better the sound recorded in camera Use of a preamped XLR
4. Magic_Lantern Firmware Wiki 2 Extract the zip file to a directory of your choice In order to preserve prior downloads use a new directory for each version you download Otherwise the resulting file may overwrite a prior download 3 From the download directory transfer the magiclantern fir magiclantern cfg and cropmarks bmp to the root directory of you CF card Your CF card directory should look like the following as a result of the transfer Views Burn Name Date modified do DCIM 8 9 2009 6 18 PM adb MISC 8 9 2009 6 18 PM 4 magiclantern cfg 8 9 2009 6 49 PM 7 magiclantern fir 8 9 2009 9 53 PM E cropmarks bmp 8 6 2009 6 30 AM 4 For each compact flash card you want to use for recording with Magic Lantern repeat these steps Page 3 Il Starting Magic Lantern 1 Start your camera with the CF card with Magic Lantern installed in the camera card slot 2 To start Magic Lantern press the menu button then locate the firmware update utility see picture below PTT Ie al a Battery info INFO button Normal disp External Speedlite control Camera user setting Clear settings Firmware Ver 1 1 0 Push the set button after navigating to the firmware line 3 Select Okay when prompted Firmware update Current version is 1 1 0 Update Page 4 The Magic Firmware program will the load Firmware update program Loading go blank and then show this screen e ie Lantern version 0
5. User Manual Magic Lantern Release 0 1 6 For the Canon 5d Mark IT Introduction This manual is designed to be a layman s introduction to Magic Lantern release No 0 1 6 Technical information regarding this release as well as the history and development of Magic Lantern can be can be reviewed at http magiclantern wikia com wiki Magic Lantern Firmware Wiki Essentially Magic Lantern is a program that has been primarily developed by Canon 5D Mark II users to load from the CF card on board the camera and for the purpose of providing enhancements to the operating system of the Canon 5D Mark II in its video and still modes It is modeled on earlier software developed in the open source community that provided enhancements to Canon Power Shot compact digital cameras http chdk wikia com wiki CHDK_in Brief Warranty Issues Bear in mind that this Magic Lantern release comes with no warranty for any use you use it at your own risk This project is a project attempting to improve uses of the product for professional level uses and is intended for that purpose Developers and Users contend that using the Magic Lantern does not harm your camera since it is loaded into the memory only temporarily and if you turn off the camera it s gone completely Alpha testers have used Magic Lantern for several versions now and there have been no reported camera issues developed in using the software The original camera firmware is left untouched in the camer
6. a There have been two prior released versions as the software and the developers have had no report of any damage arising out of its use Canon support maintains that any upgrades to the software of the camera not performed by an authorized Canon Repair Facility or installed as directed by Canon would void the warranty Thus you should consider it likely that damage occuring to your camera while using Magic Lantern software would not be covered under your Warranty should Canon challenge the Warranty on that basis Whether or not their position would hold up legally has not been tested However the open source developers of this software are are essentially accessing settings that are available on board the camera as part of the Canon design and it is unclear how such usage would be determined in a repair situation in any event Page 1 What does Magic Lantern Do A General Description of Process Simply stated Magic Lantern 0 1 6 provides a system that allows the user to obtain access to various settings on the camera that are not available in the Canon 5D Mark II firmware release 1 10 the most recent release which itself provided some additional manual setting capabilities for video shooting In fact in order to use Magic Lantern 0 1 6 you must also be running firmware version 1 10 The choice of settings can be accomplished by one of two methods The first is by accessing the Magic Lantern Menu after starting Magic Lantern The secon
7. adapter like the Juiced Link CX 231 or a field mixer will give superior results Video Settings The video setting menu looks like this Zebras This setting toggles Zebras on and off Zebra Thrs This setting toggles through various level of zebras As of this writing actual values have not been analyzed The authors believe 0xf000 approximates 100 Page 8 Cropmarks This setting toggles cropmarks on or off The Magic Lantern will access a cropmark file in the root directory to write user developed crop marks There is a sample version provided The camera can only access a simple 8 bit bitmap file and should be designed within the parameters of the demonstration file provided with your Magic Lantern software download Under current version any replacement file must maiting the file name cropmarks bmp Edgedetect This function currently is still in development an in current implemention does not provide usable edge detection for focusing purposes Histogram Toggles a histogram display Video Notes a Zebra currently do not write properly to monitors fed by the Canon 5D The should therefore be turned of for that use Bracket The bracket menu appears as this This feature is provided for still photography purposes to test several different exposure level of a scene Focus Menu The Focus selection Menu appears as follows Page 9 The focus menu system is designed to take advantage of autofocus len
8. d method is to make changes on a configuration file prior to invoking Magic Lantern and then including that configuration on the CF root directory along with the Magic Lantern software before starting Magic Lantern The Magic Lantern process also allows the saving of the current settings as a repeatable configuration once the configuration has been set while in Magic Lantern so the particular setup can be repeatably invoked at start up In both cases the process is started by starting the camera in the standard configuration That means you start your Canon 5D Mark II as usual using firmware version 1 10 Then with a card that has been loaded with the Magic Lantern 0 1 6 you will select firmware update from the firmware update menu on the camera After selecting it the camera will reboot using Magic Lantern 0 1 6 Nothing in the firmware rewrites or changes the standard firmware on board the the camera The Magic Lantern Firmware actually supplements the firmware but is not written permanently in the Camera s operating system After Magic Lantern is running the user will 1 have access to a new set of data reporting on the LCD or monitor 2 have access to audio level meters 3 have access to zebras on screen LCD use only 4 have access to menus for setting of audio gain 5 set audio monitoring levels 6 invoke design and define and invoke crop marks 7 set histogram on or off 8 set up stack focus for multiple still photos wi
9. on Files Magic Lantern will generate a more complete configuration file After starting Magic Lantern and making settings to your Camera in the Magic Lantern Menus you can save that current configuration for future start ups in the Debug menu by selecting Save Config in that menu My selecting that the original Configuration file will be replaced with a new extended configuration file such as the following Magic Lantern 0 1 6 4770e23b8cd9 tip Build on 2009 08 10 22 54 23 by hudson kremvax Configuration saved on 2009 08 10 16 51 20 disable powersave 1 debug draw event 0 debug menu timeout 15 debug draw prop 0 debug timed dump 0 Page 12 oO udio mgain udio dgain 1l1 18 udio dgain r 12 udio mic power 1 udio lovl 3 udio o2gain 0 udio alc enable udio mic in 1 audio loopback 1 focus step 100 focus count 5 focus rack speed zebra draw 0 zebra level at ae voooooow oa w ll je ll ws 61440 crop draw 0 crop file A cropmarks bmp edge draw 0 nable liveview 1 hist draw 0 hist x 582 hist y 100 timecode x 520 timecode y 50 timecode width 225 timecode height 60 timecode warning 120 You can use this file for future start up and you may also want to edit further for future startups and develop several different files for various uses Page 13
10. ses to provide an automated rack focus for motion filming and stack focusing for still photography It is currently in Beta status and provided for user testing and development Settings are as follow Focus A This is the end point of the rack focus Focus to that point and depress the selection Then focus to the starting point Rack speed Sets the focus speed Select a speed and test and reset as needed Rack Focus Selects actual rack focus action Run Stack Focus This selection will start a series of photographs based on setting below Focal Dist Hyperfocal DOF Near DOF Far Focus Notes Page 10 Debug Menu The Debug Menu will appear as follows draw prop mo ore sho OTT Be ee et Listed les Toggine draw event The menu provides various commands designed to help the developers determine what is happening during processes The general user may asked to provide information about bug reports from these menus However it is expected that the general user will use the Save Config command to develop his how configuration settings for repeatable use That process is explained more below Configuration Files The basic configuration file on board at first start Magic Lantern comes with a basic configuration file used to set the camera up you can view and modify the file in a test editor such as Note Pad The configuration file will look like this Zebra levels zebra level 61440 zebra draw
11. th variable focus 9 set up automated rack focusing on auto focus lenses 10 save a new configuration setting based on the set up you have made After completing the use of the camera in Magic Lantern mode the power of the camera is turned off This will normally clear the camera of any vestiges of the opearting system and the camera can then be restarted in the normal firmware operating system Currently developers are recommending that users also open and remove the battery briefly to assure memory is cleared up restarting of the camera in normal modes Page 2 I Preparing Your Compact Flash Card Any compact flash card that you intend to shoot with Magic Lantern will have to have magic lantern installed to it Remember the card supplies the additional operating instructions for the firmware running on the camera About choice of cards Generally most cards that can be used with the Canon 5D Mark II in regular mode will work with Magic Lantern However the user should be prepared to consider changing cards should continuous trouble be noted with a particular card or brand of cards Preparing the Card for Transfer of Magic Lantern Itis recommended that any card on which Magic Lantern is to be installed be formatted in the Canon 5D Mark II prior to installation of Magic Lantern on that card Installing Magic Lantern on your card 1 Download the latest version of Magic Lantern from this site http magiclantern wikia com wiki
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