Download Firmware Magic Lantern EOS 7D alpha 2

The second alpha release of Magic Lantern for the Canon EOS 7D has become available. Magic Lantern is a firmware add-on for select Canon DSLRs. It started out to make the cameras more suitable for recording video, but nowadays also includes several interesting additions for ordinary photography. In this release, among other things, the ability to adjust the bitrate of the video compression has been added added. The full release notes for this release are as follows:

We’ve enabled these features since alpha 1:

• Advanced Bracketing (HDR)
• Intervalometer
• audio tags
• Bit rate manipulation
• [EXPERIMENTAL] Modify card flush rate for higher bit rates
• [EXPERIMENTAL] Modify GOP size (down to ALL-I or up to 100 for better (?) details)
• a lot of minor fixes

Key Features:

• Audio meters while recording
• zebras
• focus peaking
• Magic Zooom (via half-shutter, or focus ring)
• Cropmarks, Ghost image
• spot meter
• false color
• Histogram, Waveform
• vector scope
• Movie logging
• Movie car stop
• Trap focus
• LiveView settings (brightness, contrast…)
• Level indicator
• Image review tweaks (quick zoom)
• and some debug functions

But:

• If anything goes wrong, we don’t pay for repairs. Use Magic Lantern at your own risk!

Known issues:

• You have to reload Magic Lantern every time you use it. (this is intentional)
• when using HDMI output, frame drops may happen (to be verified)
• make sure your battery/adaptor is chipped, else canon menu will abort “firmware update” (= loading ML)
• movie restart and video effects menus visible but not working