The Canon 5D Mark II is already an amazing and affordable full-frame DSLR that just happens to also shoot Full HD (1920 x 1080 resolution), but there are issues within the camera that apparently are being somewhat corrected with firmware updates.  That's where the Magic Lantern firmware update comes in: the makers of this firmware are hoping to really turn the Canon 5D Mark II into a serious HD camera (with Canon's amazing line-up of lenses).

Get the details at magiclantern.wikia.com, and check out this video at Vimeo.  I'm going to keep my eye on this.  One thing though--the video compression probably isn't even up to HDV quality.

A word of caution though: always be careful with unknown and not-quite-tested 3rd party firmware updates!

Posted at 04:33PM Jun 22, 2009 by Heath McKnight in Inform  |  Comments[0]