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It's irrelevant. GH2 resolution is not improved by any hack. Unlike Magic Lantern which is reverse engineered new firmware providing a lot of new functionality the GH2 hack just alters internal registers that control how the image is compressed & recorded.

The 5D3 does at least 6fps with proper full size raw images so why bother doing this for 2 Megapixel stills? On the other hand shooting video at regular 24/25/30fps & then extracting 2 Megapixel stills could be useful once you recognise that many shots will be ruined by motion blur unless you up the shutter speed but then that will render motion in the video wacky.

That's not surprising as he was a cameraman for Sky News for 16+ years.

I would like to try this as it looks interesting. However I followed the installation instructions:-           but even after restarting Premiere Pro & even the Mac I cannot find this plugin among by Video Effects. I am running PP CS6 on OS X 10.8.3   BTW You really should put the full instructions for using this plugin (as in this forum post) & some contact details in the zip file or at least a pointer to a web page or even this forum post.

TV broadcasts both satellite (DVB-S), cable (DVB-C) & terrestrial (DVB-T) here in the UK & most other countries are 1080i.

Perhaps only for music videos & even then it's not ideal. Certainly not suitable for narrative drame or any of a host of other genres never mind run'n'gun documentary. It's fine for beautiful demo pieces as we have already seen but 40 seconds is seriously limiting for almost anything else.

Unless the ML team figure out how to write to a Ninja or Hyperdeck shuttle down the HDMI or implement file spanning to break free of the 4GB file limit this development although amazing is going to have little practical use with takes restricted to about 40 seconds (4MBx24/25fps=100MB/sec)

Is there some technical reason why the raw images have to be written to the CF card when Canon just released firmware for the 5D3 that gives a clean HDMI output so that a Ninja or Hyperdeck Shuttle can be attached as SSDs are cheaper & larger capacity than 1000x CF cards.

Andrew, are you attending?   I accepted an invite to attend this workshop from Panasonic a while ago & am looking forward to it.

Interesting that you should shoot weddings. I saw a photographer at a wedding fair the other day & his USP was that he shot all on film. He had some nice large prints & albums but the style was more blurry & arty than what we are used to nowadays. Of course the danger if you get a taste for film photography is to realise why wedding photographers used to use medium format cameras with a negative size 3-4x the size of a 35mm negative then discover that while a Hasselblad is still very expensive that a used Mamiya 645 can found found on eBay at a very affordable price. It's a slippery slope...

I can only concur. Last year in a fit of nostalgia I bought a Canon EOS 1V (the last & best 35mm camera they ever made) so that I could use it with all my lovely EF lenses. Frankly the results are disappointing. I had forgotten quite how small 35mm negatives are & even with FP4 Plus B&W film the grain is really noticeable once you enlarge any significant amount. Compared to my 5D3 the image is very soft & you lose a lot of flexibility as you are stuck with low ISO & the film speed & white balance of whichever film stock you loaded your camera with. The camera looks & feels great in the hand though & amazingly at 10fps can shoot burst mode faster than my 5D3.

Nether of these articles claim that the 24-105mm is parfocal although they have comments in reply that contradict that http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2011/02/photo-lenses-for-video/4 http://dougchinnery.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/canon-parfocal-lenses.html   Stills photographers don't really care whether a lens is parfocal or not as they always use AF so I suspect that being parfocal is not a design goal for Canon's still photo zooms & if you have a model that is you should just be grateful.

The 24-105mm F4L is definitely not parfocal nor is the 24-70mm F/2.8L nor is the 70-200mm F/2.8L IS II. I was using all three lenses on my 5D3 yesterday & it would have been really useful to me for the shoot if they were parfocal but they are not. The only other Canon zoom I have is the 16-35mm F/2.8L & I have no idea if that is parfocal or not as the zoom range is very short & the lens is so wide that most everything is in focus most of the time anyway.

Sorry mate it'syou who don't seem to undertsand the terms.   DRM is concerned with rights holders managing content http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management   Jailbreaking an iPhone is concerned with running unsigned code on a device that you own to deliver extra functionality not available out of the box & nothing to do with evading whatever controls rights holders may have placed on their content http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking This is in principle just the same as running Magic Lantern on your Canon camera.

I am spreading no myths & it's also the opinion of the Magic Lantern developers that what they are doing is perfectly legal. Jailbreaking an iPhone is nothing to do with DRM & is exactly analogous to what Magic Lantern does i.e. reverse engineering code on the device to introduce your own code that bypasses built-in functions & to add other new features of your own.   A major practical objection to Canon contemplating sending in the lawyers even if their case were valid is the problems of chasing an Open Source Software project. The example of DeCSS shows that nowadays with the Internet that once the genie is out the bottle it's impossible to put it back.

A breach of copyright is not illegal i.e. the cops will not turn up & arrest you & charge you in court. The most that can happen is that the copyright owner sues the alleged infringer which when it's an Open Source project makes it a little difficult to see who they would sue. In any case Magic Lantern reverse engineers the Canon firmware & adds new functions. Reverse engineering is perfectly legal. CHDK the original parent & inspiration for Magic Lantern has been doing a similar job for Canon point & shoot cameras for many years again it's Open Source reverse engineering.   Magic Lantern in principle is not so different from jailbreaking an iPhone & even in the US this has been explicitly declared to be legal.

Black Magic have delivered a handful of BMCCs so that camera isn't vapourware but it's not exactly solid either.

That can't be the reason. Automatic movie restart is just that a restart unlike the GH2 hack that really does remove the 30 minute recording limit on PAL cameras. It's the same as if the user pressed the record button again.

I thought that the choice was between a Hackintosh & a used Mac Pro & I would plump for the latter. However if the budget is higher then a new top of the range iMac will give you outstanding performance & with Applecare worry free computing for years. 

The big advantage a Mac Pro has is that it's a dual CPU 8-core machine (12-core for the latest models).  Using all the cores this will grind through renders faster than even the fastest Hackintosh. The Nvidia GTX570 runs without any hacks on Mountain Lion with the Nvidia drivers & is the fastest CUDA card available. Add an SSD in a PCI slot carrier for preference as it will give you full SATA-III speed.   Mac Pros are built like tanks & an absolute steal on the used market. I have had my dual 2.8GHz 8-core Mac Pro 3,1 from new over four years ago & with the upgrades above it flies. I have seen similar configurations on eBay for as little as £600 (under $1000)

I 100% agree with. I have a dual CPU 2.8GHz Mac Pro 3,1 & have seen similar for as little as £600 on eBay which is a fantastic bargain. I have just down a few upgrades. The used GTX570 just £125 off eBay was probably the most cost effective as it has made Premiere Pro so much smoother & faster. It is 2X faster for CUDA & 3X faster for OpenCL than the GTX285 it replaced. I also added an SSD first in one of the drive sleds but because these systems are SATA-II the bus is the bottleneck so you don't see full SSD speed so just yesterday I put the SSD in one of these PCIe cards that gives SATA-II speeds & the read speed doubled to a tad under 500MB/s http://www.expansys.com/apricorn-velocity-solo-x2-ssd-sata-iii-6gb-2-5-235130/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=base&ito=1701&mkwid=svHjLhmZB&kword=adwords_productfeed&gclid=CMKe6Pb_0LQCFaTMtAodNFkAJQ My final upgrade is 16GB (4x4GB) of RAM for the bargain price (for ECC FBDIMMs anyway:-) of £230.   With all the performance boosts from improved graphics, SSD & RAM upgrade this system will be good for at least another couple of years.

It's also not built like a tank as the 5D2 & 5D3 are.

Crucially a proper Mac Pro can have dual Xeon processors with a total of 12 cores which is going to grind through rendering etc a whole lot faster than any quad-core i7. Once you start pricing up dual Xeon motherboards with Xeon processors you start to see where most of the cost of a Mac Pro goes.

Only if you are comparing the same Field of View. At F/1.4 there is more DoF on a smaller sensor but then the FoV is wider so if you move nearer to have the same FoV then the DoF will be the same.

That's because Andrew couldn't afford a Canon C100/C300/C500 or a Sony FS700:-)