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Some of the best footage i've seen yet:

I wasn't sure.. so I looked for it and.. bang!   http://philipbloom.net/2010/04/01/canonraw/     this is PB's april's fool in 2010, saying there was a Canon firmware upgrade giving RAW :D   the funniest part is when he writes: "Canon have done exactly what we wanted. RAW baby, RAW! "

On the subject of reliability, Roger Cicala reports that the most frequent camera damage coming back from rentals on the 5D3 is bent CF pins inside the camera's slot. If there's a grain of sand caught in those little holes on the card or if you just jam it in there a bit askew your camera is SD-only until repaired. It happened so often on the 5D2 they made it easier for service to repair the pins but they didn't make it harder to break in the first place, that's the CF standard's problem. And the 5D3 has only one CF slot, and it's the only way you're getting RAW out of it...and you're gonna be doing insertions every 15 minutes or so rather than once or twice a day...   I have no conflicts of interest and I've never even been in contact with anyone from Canon. I'm just running through the other sides of this, immune enough to the hype to not have already bought $500 worth of CF cards but not immune enough to not be thinking it all through very carefully. Please resist group polarization...there's a waft of Lord of the Flies in this whole personal allegiances thing.

In the last few days, both Andrew and Luke have cleared my 'video/filmmaker' bookmarks folder in one fell swoop! The pioneering attitude and spirit to accepting this amazing development is utterly refreshing. The other bloggers' (you all know who!), have become stale and self indulgent.   I personally, don't yet have the need to shoot raw, as my work doesn't require it... (yet!) I shoot on the C100, 7D and the Sony F5 of late, yet I still find this development one of the most important of at least my career.   Hats off to Nuemann Films and EOSHD, you guys will absolutely be my future go tos!

I don't think you should be shooting a wedding..

Dan Chung just posted "Canon 5D RAW hack - Useful for Real World Production?". 

I bought a BIG century optics wide angle adapter in hopes of trying it out with my Kowa for B&H. Initial tests left me baffled because I could not get ANY kind of focus. Then again, it was a test-by-hand, wasn't very scientific. But I was a little bit let down. I should try it again...

  There's no crew at EOSHD it's just me :)   Thanks dude.

  2 people appear to be compiling it for the 60D at the moment, so not long to wait!

what i like about EOSHD is that it tells the truth, always covers the most interesting topics, and places quality content before referral sales. i really can't find another site like this. thank you andrew!   while my work is least suited to a raw workflow, my eyes don't lie. anyone who dismisses the superlative quality of raw from the 5d3 is either blind or has a vested interest against it.

This break through is history in the making. We are witnessing cinematography history with what Magic Lantern is doing. I can understand the calls for caution BUT....come on now. EVERYONE knew Canon was BS-ing with the 5D3's video capabilities. Straight BS. I'm a Canon shooter and I'm heavily invested in rigging my 7D for video. Mosaic Engineering filter and all the other odds and ends to help me shoot better. I don't have to money to waste on system jumping, lens matching, adaptors, etc. I shoot everything from weddings to music videos. Blackmagic caught my attention but still highly annoyed me for many reasons...shipping delays, menu ergonomics, form factor, battery, ssd, resolve not running on my 2010 Imac...etc, etc. I'm not dealing with micro 4/3s right now so no gh2/gh3. Been trolling canon rumors for updates for the 7Dmk2 and nothing. No way in hell am I paying $6k for a C100. This break through has made my purchasing options clear. Hopefully they will be able to get it to work on the 7D. With the proper lighting, ND filters, sure I can make h264 bit look great and low light wedding shooting with h264 on the 5D3 works great for me aslo...but now combined with some shots in raw. This gives me the shooting agility that I've been looking for.

Look no further!

Not denying any of that pee.   Also I am not criticising Laforet in the way you're insinuating. I suggest you re-read the blog post!   You clearly haven't seen the DNG files if you're not sure it provides more resolution or dynamic range than the HDMI out with log gamma!!!   You don't need a chart test just use your bloody eyes mate!

  Any other requests boss??!

Vincent isn't a filmmaker anymore... He is a salesman. Philip Bloom is too. This hack keeps this camera viable until people actually NEED 4k in the home.... Which is at least 5-15 years away. With every new camera, there is a new gadget... Something for Vincent and Philip to 'review' and endorse so you will buy it. Are they paid for it, no (maybe)... But they certainly profit from it - not just but clicks on ads on their sites... but as long As they can stay relevant they can keep working. I like them, and honestly think Philip is pretty cool... But I wouldn't take their opinions about a camera hack and the future of anything as fact. They are salesmen for a booming industry!

Agree with Leica50mm. Let's focus on the amazing 5DIII raw video story, rather than the celebrity bloggers.

I don't really care what anyone says or thinks. I've been obsessed with the footage from this camera since i first saw it Sunday night. I don't have a mkiii but I do have a c 300 and this footage has a pow factor the 300 does not . I've seen footage here and other places that is stunning. I'm getting one soon. The only thing I'm worried about is canon somehow stopping ML..

Thanks again Andrew for your wonderful work and open-mindedness. My first post here after years of digesting all your intelligent and passionate contributions to fellow filmmakers. I've had the luck and pleasure to edit numerous films for Vincent Laforet and Shane Hurlbut and shoot my projects with the 5D. It's been a whirlwind week and I'm excited at the opportunities and possibilites ahead of us.   As a side note that might be interesting to the conversation...Shane is installing the ML RAW hack into his 5Ds as we speak and I'm sure he will post his results and findings once he tests them out in his awesomely manic and intensively thorough way! I hope Vincent gives it a fair shake too!  Exciting times....

I am blown away by the quality. Moving raw photos. Full frame at that. It hasn't been done before. Now here it is for free.   Canon charge you $12,000 for a moving JPEG photo.   Bloom gets excited about that.   Moving raw photo for free? OUUUHH noo thats rubbish. Not shooting with that!   Logic has died a death there.   The mighty dollar and mighty ego rule supreme.

  I enjoyed Phil when he was genuinely putting out useful regular posts. Super 35mm adapters, DSLRs, all workarounds he endorsed. Built his name on DSLRs in fact, wouldn't have a well known blog without them. Now all I see is extreme self love and a formidable self obsession. Pics of Bloom on a plane. Pics of his cats. Instagram self portraits. Fooling about at NAB, Looping Vine videos. Posing here, posing there, posing doing this, posing doing that. It's enough to make you go insane. HAD ENOUGH   The cult of personality has overtaken the filmmaker for me. Hate all the moral posturing too. Philip uses the moral high ground and his sense of humour as defence mechanisms against those he doesn't agree with. His ego HATES any form of criticism however constructive. Sad really, as in doing so one is left with just Bloomies and groupies around you. Say you don't like so many ads on his blog and you are met with standard response THIS BLOG COSTS SO MUCH TO RUN, and he tries to claim the high ground. I know how much blogs cost to run. Very little. In the past I did EOSHD one-handed on a shoestring for years. So make no mistake, the blog is to promote Philip Bloom. It is not only a selfless act of sharing he makes it out to be.   Met Phil quite a few times, each time has been odd. Charming and coldly indifferent at the same time. At Photokina, he belittled me and basically humiliated me in front of two strangers in the name of humour knowing it was inappropriate in the circumstances - very barbed passive aggressive exchanges disguised as humour, really uncomfortable to be subjected to. On other occasions he was fine. I think he has issues.

The Canon sponsored people are doing a great job of misunderstanding the technical aspects. Whether they do so on purpose or not, who knows? But it sure as hell is annoying.   Sensor Live view is powered by the CMOS sensor. The camera buffer contains raw data from the sensor. The CMOS constantly reads out this data to supply a moving live view image on the LCD. Video came about on DSLRs as the camera could also compress this raw video stream and save it to a card. Since the sensor is already doing raw video during normal live view operation with the factory Canon firmware, there's no extra heat or stress penalty on the sensor for raw video with Magic Lantern.   Buffer I think I read this is 512MB RAM at 700MB/s. RAM is also present in your laptop. It is constantly churching read / write cycles as you use the computer. RAM is designed to work constantly. It doesn't die through exhaustion like a mechanical part or the unfortunate Chinese worker who was tasked with making it in the first place.   DIGIC and card controller Digic is designed for complex tasks like compressing the shit out of our lovely raw video stream. Now it can sit back and do something else, because with raw, there's no complex computation going on at all as TC pointed out above. The card controller is a simple off the shelf chip designed to write to the card like your $10 SD card reader. It won't blow up. It doesn't have the brains to get too hot!!

Who cares what Vincent Laforet thinks? What matters is what you think. May I ask, why do so many websites put Vincent Laforet on a pedestal? Why? Just curious, I'm not meaning for that to sound negative.

Looks great! Impressive production quality. I have a Kowa B&H and usually find i get a fair bit of distortion at the edges if I go down to a 35mm lens, I can see you cropped the sides though to get rid of it and also to minimize the 2x stretch. How did you manage to frame/stage things in anticipation of cropping? I'm trying to sort out a system as the 2x is too much for my tastes, maybe putting some tape on the viewfinder...or just buying an iscorama :P

Wow this is really nice.  Looks like 70's Godfather footage or something.  Grading, flares, car and costumes - everything is really great!

Another video I shot yesterday: This time in youtube so you can watch it in 3k online. Javi.