ajay Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 As you may know, Canon announced that a security flaw has been found with their cameras. Canon Watch states: The video below shows how Check Point Research exploited the Canon EOS 80D using the cited security flaw. By building on existing knowledge of Magic Lantern, they were able to build a ransomware. If the security flaw was built on existing knowledge of Magic Lantern, might Canon lock their firmware down preventing Magic Lantern from being loaded on future firmware releases? And...If you don't update your Canon camera, might it be vulnerable to ransomware? Interesting quandry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcio Kabke Pinheiro Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Just imagining the hacker harassing a typical DPReview forum user. "You should pay me 3 bitcoins or I will delete all these...ahn...brick wall pictures". Nikkor, kaylee, 1Ale82 and 1 other 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anaconda_ Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Apple have said something similar since the very first jailbreak, but it's not stopped them from hacking iphones. sanveer and kaylee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plucas Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Magic Lantern has perhaps already reached a terminus of sorts. It's a wonderful utility that has allowed us to shoot RAW video on a budget, but we haven't seen a RAW module come to any Canon camera that was released after 2013. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) In essence, the modern DIGIC processors or sensors are much more complex and the brilliant team of developers at ML are only able to develop the software in their spare time. No doubt Canon has already taken steps to make ML builds more difficult to port to their newer cameras. Filmmakers like Rubidium (Crimson Engine) still often use the 5Diii ML as their C200 B-cam and that's of course bad business for Canon, who'd rather that professionals settle for an EOS R or buy a second Cinema camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avenger 2.0 Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 5 hours ago, plucas said: Magic Lantern has perhaps already reached a terminus of sorts. It's a wonderful utility that has allowed us to shoot RAW video on a budget, but we haven't seen a RAW module come to any Canon camera that was released after 2013. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) In essence, the modern DIGIC processors or sensors are much more complex and the brilliant team of developers at ML are only able to develop the software in their spare time. No doubt Canon has already taken steps to make ML builds more difficult to port to their newer cameras. Filmmakers like Rubidium (Crimson Engine) still often use the 5Diii ML as their C200 B-cam and that's of course bad business for Canon, who'd rather that professionals settle for an EOS R or buy a second Cinema camera. The biggest problem is there are only a few active developers with not enough time. They already found ways to upload code to new camera's (M50, 80D, 5D4, etc) and are waiting for other developers to port existing code to them. I think the problem is there isn't that much demand as before because now we have the BMPCC and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Steenhoff Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Canon is responsible for the security in the camera, you don't need to bring magic lantern into this because it has nothing to do with it. mercer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerocool22 Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 2 hours ago, Avenger 2.0 said: The biggest problem is there are only a few active developers with not enough time. They already found ways to upload code to new camera's (M50, 80D, 5D4, etc) and are waiting for other developers to port existing code to them. I think the problem is there isn't that much demand as before because now we have the BMPCC and such. I still would dump my pocket 4k for 5d iv raw. mercer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avenger 2.0 Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 1 hour ago, zerocool22 said: I still would dump my pocket 4k for 5d iv raw. You can do 4k with ML with 5D3 right now ? Kind of feel your pain. Canon dropped the ball with the 5D4. Bad 4k crop & bad codec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shell64 Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Yes you can do 4K with ML. Yes the framing is impractical for any professional application. Yes they haven’t fixed this on the mark iii and probably never will. That camera doesn’t seem to get much development nowadays tweak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweak Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 42 minutes ago, Shell64 said: Yes you can do 4K with ML. Yes the framing is impractical for any professional application. Yes they haven’t fixed this on the mark iii and probably never will. That camera doesn’t seem to get much development nowadays Yep, agreed. I use the Zcam e2 now with a speed booster for similar practical results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shell64 Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Have you used ZRAW? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweak Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 30 minutes ago, Shell64 said: Have you used ZRAW? Not yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobby33 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Yeah, well they definitely need to change their CEO managers of QA department. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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