Andrew Reid

  Ignore the metadata. It isn't right yet in the 5D raws.

  Very unlikely   How to run C code on the GH3? Vitaliy can't do it yet.

Really puzzled by your lack of enthusiasm for 5D raw Sean.   For once the hype is totally justified.

  There was that ridiculous 1D C related run-in on Twitter we had. I've seen the dark side. I'm not surprised he is belittling raw and these latest developments.   There's various conspiracies as to why he bangs on about the Cinema EOS C300 so much. At Photokina he was being paid by Canon to speak about Cinema EOS. A conspriacist would link the two - paid by Canon - radio silence on other products. But I don't put much stock in that. I think it is just down to personal preferences and what his work requires. Philip sees image quality second and getting a job done first. He sees the commercial side, the practical side, more clearly than the artistic side. Raw is not for him. I don't think he understands the raw workflows that well and seems a bit intimidated by the whole thing.   How can one ignore the clearly exciting image quality of this camera for the price, whilst bemoaning the large files and huge interest in the hack? Totally bizarre. Not even a blog post.

  Just to clarify something... You rebooted after the bootflag message, and Magic Lantern was at that point installed and booted, with menus available?

Remove the spaces from the folder name.

:) means it has enabled the boot flag.   Next time you boot the camera it should enter Magic Lantern. Make sure it is installed correctly

  Yes I did, for uncompressed HDMI.   It came straight back off again.   If you have 1.2.1, simply download the 1.1.3 firmware...   Both Mac and Windows firmware downloads are included in the ZIP.   https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18917388/5d3-v1-1-3-canon.zip   Apply the 1.1.3 firmware on the camera as normal, as per Canon instructions. It rolls back from 1.2.1 to 1.1.3 just fine.

  Yes Mac option is in the guide, it is Raw2DNG. Same app as windows, but runs on mac. Just make sure to run the correct file. The windows app has .exe at the end, the Mac one doesn't.

  First the news. Magic Lantern have playback of raw files working with early stage code. Black and white and slow frame rate but works - already. Experimental audio recording has been added. Testers and early adopters will need to see if it in sync. Future nightly builds of the Magic Lantern 5D Mark III Alpha firmware will see raw recording start / stop added to the physical movie record button as well as many other usability improvements. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10351/new-5d-raw-developments-plus-my-low-light-comparison-with-blackmagic-cinema-camera]Read the full article here[/url]

  I don't really think there's any use in trying to pigeon hole shooters into the 40 sec clip length genre, though I see what you're saying and it makes sense in a way.   I asked A1ex about this today.   He says file spanning is doable to overcome this, but it isn't yet top of their list of priorities.   It is coming please just be patient.

You can do 30p at 1920x720 currently, on 1000x cards. Within the max data rate.

I've put it in the new guide for easy digest, see the blog :)

  UPDATE: Full book now available - The EOSHD 5D Mark III Raw Shooter's Guide   Here's a quick and easy way to get raw recording setup on your 5D Mark III thanks to the recent Magic Lantern developments. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10352/easier-5d-mark-iii-raw-guide-in-4-steps]Read the full article here[/url]

29 minute limit on the NEX 5N actually, at least on the PAL one I have.

I found the problem was due to spaces in the folder name. Replaced spaces with _ and it worked.   I think a 2GB issue has also been mentioned, and fixed in latest raw2dng so make sure you get latest version.

For the impatient ones wanting Spartacus shot in raw on the 5D Mark III whilst the code is still being developed on a nightly basis, and for those wanting Hitchcock Rope style continuous takes. JUST WAIT

Why not just get the NEX 5N then... It's a fraction of the price.   The ergonomics on the VG series are also atrocious.

  All valid points you make Sean.   I don't mind what people shoot with raw - cats, dogs, whatever. As long as I have access to it on the 5D Mark III that's all that matters.

  Cool. Sometimes we need a fast turnaround. Sometimes we need raw.   It isn't that one is better than the other or visa versa... Aside from the image quality where the situation at the moment between DSLR compressed and DSLR raw is massive.

  This philosophy is much more interesting to me, than the mundane practicalities of workaday filmmaking, where reliability is a priority and the image just has to be 'good enough'.   Give me melting image processors any day.   JG yeah Red Code is awesome. Very flexible for many people.

Depends on the raw codec. Some are licensed.   Uncompressed bayer RGGB raw is simply data, there's no codec.

  I fully appreciate your point. Raw isn't practical for some people. It is a tired argument though, oft repeated and it only considers one kind of shooter.   Here's an analogy - consider in Tokyo that there's a guy playing some weird instrument for arts sake, the instrument is a pain to transport, a pain to set up, even trickier to play but the results are amazingly artistic. He is not considering anything else but the sound.   Anyway I think the 'difficulties' of raw and most of the impracticalities stem from people who are unable to get a decent workflow going, or can't bear to spend hours transcoding to ProRes, or can't bear to hack their camera, like Philip Bloom for instance. He's overstated how impractical it is time and again. Just because it doesn't fit one person's way of working doesn't mean that it won't fit someone else's. Just make it work. It's worth it.

Raw is already a standard.   And I'm not against compressed formats per see, they are convenient. The problem is not so much the codec, it is the sheer amount of image quality that is bulldozed in the implementation of it. That sensor outputs all the goodness, by the time it sees H.264 there's not much left.   My advice is for manufacturers to get serious about how they process that raw data and compress in camera. Panasonic could use their lovely AVC Ultra on a professional GH camera for instance, and do a full pixel readout of the sensor, store as much of the colour info and dynamic range and resolution as possible in a compressed format. The compression is the least of the problem, why do they have to throw so much out? There's no reason why 10bit 422 ProRes cannot be in a DSLR. It is in the Pocket Cinema Camera.

It's already posted.   I got 12,8000 exposure in the raw by matching it to the H.264 at ISO 12,800.   The DNG frame is independent from ISO. In order to get your ISO you change the exposure of the raw frame in post. Just download the raw frame and play with it.