Possible to record raw ml footage to ssd from hdmi on canon 5d2?

[Peter Rzazewski]

I'm looking at buying some 1000x  and up CF cards for my canon 5d2 to record raw (via magiclantern firmware) and came across some info about recording from hdmi and even a cf>ssd interface instead of cf cards. These CF cards are expensive and fill up fast. SSD makes more sense given that a decent 500gb ssd is only $250. Anyone have some experience with non cf card recording?

[Guest Ebrahim Saadawi]

Unfortunately no. You can't. You'll have to make do with fast CF cards.

[Peter Rzazewski]

Unfortunately no. You can't. You'll have to make do with fast CF cards.

I don't believe that's necessarily true. There are cf>ssd readers and I'm pretty sure I've heard of people doing HDMI recording using external recorders like the Atomos Ninja 2. I'm just curious if it's as good/better than CF raw recording while using magiclantern.

[froess]

That would be awesome and much cheaper! still curious how to hold in a proper way the ssd..

[Julian]

You can't output the raw data over the hdmi port in the Canons.

 

There has been a lot of talk about cf to ssd adapters in the beginning of the ML raw uprising, but never heard success stories. The CF/SSD adapters are pretty slow actually. If someone got it working by now it'd be all over the front page here and where not I think...

[Guest Ebrahim Saadawi]

I don't believe that's necessarily true. There are cf>ssd readers and I'm pretty sure I've heard of people doing HDMI recording using external recorders like the Atomos Ninja 2. I'm just curious if it's as good/better than CF raw recording while using magiclantern.

It's unfortunate but it's true, you can't record the raw data to anything other than CF cards. And yes, you can record 4:2:2 8bit uncompressed video [not raw] to an SSD recorder (Atomos/etc) through the HDMI port, but yet again even that is not possible with the mk II since it doesn't output a clean signal. The 7D, mk III and 1Dx/c can though.