Magic Lantern Software for Canon Cameras Is Back! 📸✨ After years in digital limbo, new devs have resurrected this beloved camera firmware hack with modern tools (yes, they finally discovered Git!). Now eyeing mirrorless support - because who doesn't want RAW video on everything?
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/23/2054229/magic-lantern-software-for-canon-cameras-is-back
Magic Lantern is back!
https://www.magiclantern.fm/
Magic Lantern is free, open source software that adds extra features to Canon cameras. After a five year hiatus, the project has resumed and brought in more Developers, and they're adding more camera models and features.
(Magic Lantern is for Canon cameras. I use Nikon and Blackmagic Design, but figure this news will be of great interest to Canon fans.)
Magic Lantern Software for Canon Cameras Is Back https://petapixel.com/2025/06/22/magic-lantern-software-for-canon-cameras-is-back/ #magiclantern #Software #firmware #hacking #Canon #video #News #dslr
After 5 years of being dormant, #MagicLantern the #OpenSource Alternative to #Canon Firmware just dropped a major update!
Newly supported cameras:
- #200D
- #6DMarkII
- #750D
- #7DMarkII
New builds for the old supported models such as #CanonM.
Great news!
Best social media comment, about a former camera hacking YouTuber who went on to become a televangelist: "He moved on to something less complicated: the Bible."
Acabo de descubrir que #MagicLantern tiene función de Dual ISO bastante funcional y se me ha abierto un mundo nuevo.
Tocará sacar la #Canon para hacer algunas fotos y probar.
Clearing out the store cupboard at work and found these gems! #calculator #addingmachine #magiclantern #retrotech
Is there something like #MagicLantern (custom Firmware for Canon cameras) for #Nikon cameras (specifically, the D5600)?
There are a few issues I have with the default firmware (unnecessary recording time limit, touchscreen controls unusable when watching through viewfinder as a left-eye dominant person, no custom modes, …).
My search did not come up with something, and NikonHacker also has disappeared…
#happybirthday @robertbeltran74 #robertbeltran #actor #chakotay #startrek #voyager #startrekprodigy #nixon #nightofthecornet #lonewolfmcquade #renegades #csimiami #murdershewrote #biglove #Shadowhunter #TakingChances #MagicLantern #thecircuit #startrek58 @trekcore
Ich bin Fan von meiner #Canon (mit #MagicLantern, echt coole Firmwareerweiterung für Canons, kennt die jemand?). Manueller Fokus und eine echte Blende (nicht das unscharfgerechne, was ich bei den tollen iPhones bestaunen durfte) sind schon einfach praktisch. Und die 300€ (inzwischen wahrscheinlich mehr) geb' ich gerne für eine gute Kamera aus, die ich jetzt schon 6 Jahre nutze, wenn ich sie dann nicht in ein neuestes #iPhone (mit tollen digitalfiltern, die ich auch immernoch am Laptop nachbearbeiten kann) investieren muss, sondern sie mir bei der Wahl meines Handys die Freiheit geben, nicht mehr auf die Kamera achten zu müssen sondern nur darauf, dass es ein custom ROM unterstützt.
Langer Satz, gerne auf Grammatikfehler hinweisen.
Gedanken zu Nutzung von Smartphones und (deren) Kameras.
#photography #camera #digitalcamera
Instale #Magiclantern \o/
I'm also pleased to see that there's some support for #MagicLantern for my camera now. If I can just use it as an intervalometer I would be very happy as trying to get #TriggerTrap running would be a fools errand.
I hyper-focussed on configuring #magiclantern for potential #Aurora tonight and completely forgot about #Eurovision until I got a message from @feorag
Any minute a rainbow unicorn will break down the door and rip my gay card to confetti with their tentacles.
(But I’ll get to keep my nerd cred!)
This is to remind you that #magiclantern is a piece of OSS that teaches your old #CanonEOS new tricks. Maybe for to tonight‘s #Aurora, so we can annoy even more people by posting pictures of the light made by particles crashing into each other at high energy.
https://www.magiclantern.fm
@AntoineD En passant par #MagicLantern ? 😅 https://www.magiclantern.fm
Et effectivement, je ne trouve rien via Darktable ou RawTherapee 🙄
HDR$ gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download --set-config /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=-3 --capture-image-and-download --set-config /main/capturesettings/exposurecompensation=3 --capture-image-and-download
I feel like a kid with a new toy. I mean of course I could have done this with #MagicLantern and interval + advanced bracketed capture, but I *no longer have to manually change the SD card* every few hours!!!
I have a #CanonEosM (from 2013) with #MagicLantern. It takes good photographs with the 22mm lense but does not work with the Ef-M 55-200mm.
Does anyone know anything about that?
Is there a Camera hacking / #ReverseEngineering community (or hashtag) hiding somewhere on Mastodon? For "real" cameras (DSLR / mirrorless)?
The #CHDK and #MagicLantern communities are rather dormant and seem to lack support for devices younger than a decade.
I'm apparently the last survivor of the #SamsungNX community (abandoned by Samsung in 2015), and interested in reversing their ARM firmwares, but my #ARM skills are rather modest.
:BoostOK:
Continuing the #magiclantern experiment. The first image is the default HD output of the camera (with the frame cropped and blown up to match the ML output), and the second is the raw video shot at 960x540(!) and upscaled to HD.
What do you think?
I feel like one looks like a film still and the other looks like a photo. 🤔
