Magic Lantern
Jun 8, 2016 23:35:14 #
jimglaze
Loc: Asheville, NC
My understanding is it means your camera locks up and becomes unusable. Because of the warnings regarding this, I delayed using it for a year. Then I realized I'd never seen a post reporting that actually happening. I've installed and used it on a 60D and a 5D Mark III. It has crashed while shooting video. I would never rely on it, but it greatly expands capabilities and options. I greatly appreciate it.
Jun 9, 2016 01:24:03 #
jimglaze wrote:
My understanding is it means your camera locks up and becomes unusable. Because of the warnings regarding this, I delayed using it for a year. Then I realized I'd never seen a post reporting that actually happening. I've installed and used it on a 60D and a 5D Mark III. It has crashed while shooting video. I would never rely on it, but it greatly expands capabilities and options. I greatly appreciate it.
Yeah, unsubstantiated rumors can spread far and wide on the internet in a relatively short time. Even if you came across a genuine report of a camera locking up and becoming unusable after someone loaded Magic Lantern into a camera, this shouldn't be taken as proof of a cause-effect relationship. After all, cameras can permanently cease to function all on their own without Magic Lantern; it may be nothing more than coincidence that Magic Lantern was loaded at the time the camera quit working.
Jun 9, 2016 08:27:56 #
How true, I have a brick at home that has never seen ML. Out in the field one day taking pics and then nothing... ever again. Canon repair said it was not repairable due to water damage. Had the camera (bought it used) for just over a year and it never got wet. At least while I had it. From this I learned that in the event your camera gets wet, even if it still works, let it dry with the silica bags or rice as water has a nasty habit of working real slow at creating damage. Little by little it erodes away at the innards of the camera till one day when you need it most.....
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rook2c4 wrote:
Yeah, unsubstantiated rumors can spread far and wide on the internet in a relatively short time. Even if you came across a genuine report of a camera locking up and becoming unusable after someone loaded Magic Lantern into a camera, this shouldn't be taken as proof of a cause-effect relationship. After all, cameras can permanently cease to function all on their own without Magic Lantern; it may be nothing more than coincidence that Magic Lantern was loaded at the time the camera quit working.
Jun 9, 2016 09:22:08 #
rook2c4 wrote:
Yeah, unsubstantiated rumors can spread far and wide on the internet in a relatively short time. Even if you came across a genuine report of a camera locking up and becoming unusable after someone loaded Magic Lantern into a camera, this shouldn't be taken as proof of a cause-effect relationship. After all, cameras can permanently cease to function all on their own without Magic Lantern; it may be nothing more than coincidence that Magic Lantern was loaded at the time the camera quit working.
Thank you. Any computer code ( firmware or software or bad data ) can cause a device to hang whether from the manufacturer or another source.
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The ML guys are very clear that if the camera does hang then take the batteries out and restart which will prevent the small risk of overheating. I have heard no reports of this happening.
However, fear uncertainty and doubt proliferate on the web.
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