Cinematography : Magic lantern in mk2 by Osman Rafiq

Magic lantern in mk2

Hey guys i have been wondering if any one over here has recently used magic lantern on 5dmk2 ? Would like to know feedback

Stephane Lun-Sin

I did to try raw on a friend's 5Dmii. Lots of amazing features like 2.35 crop guides, shutter angle, frame rate override. Pretty safe hack too, you just need the right files on your card and you're good to go. I haven't tried raw in any serious production yet though. I know people get consistent results but ymmv.

Adrian Sierkowski

I would not use RAW on a real production as it pretty well complicates a proper post. If anything, with red ones renting for dirt cheap these days, if you need raw, I'd look into that. Else, the 5dMKIII is pretty remarkable out of the box as I just used it. Aside from the problems of filming in low light with focus on an Vistavistion ("IMAX") Sized sensor.

Stephane Lun-Sin

Now that DaVinci Resolve support .RAW natively, the post is not too involving anymore. What I would be concerned about is the reliability of the hack, since it is still in Alpha version eventhough there is an amazing community of brilliant developers and testers getting new versions out every day.

Adrian Sierkowski

That's still a pretty expensive step between camera to edit. And at that point you're in the territory of Arri Raw and Redcode Raw, as well as Cineform Raw, all of which come out of cameras purpose built for recording it; and generally far more robust and less troublesome than working on vDSLRs. This may work if you're in your basement cutting yourself, but it's hard to justify using a 5D as an "a" cam when you've now upped the post budget substantially (as well as the cost for data management), when you can get a red which has a similar post, but is more well understood and gasp, probably more stable-- and most houses should have redrockets to aid in decoding. Hell one could get a full Epic package, with lenses ,in LA for around $600/day, which is a pretty insanely low price, and comparable to the price you'd pay for a 5dMKII rental with lenses.

Stephane Lun-Sin

Sure. But the OP was not asking about renting a package and optimizing a budget. He probably owns a 5Dmii and is maybe looking to 'get it to the other level' so to speak.

Adrian Sierkowski

Even so, he should understand what it means on a real production to "get to the next level."

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