Magic Lantern has no audio controls for Canon 600D/T3i and newer cameras. SD monitors are not completely supported (magic zoom and RGB tools will not work). Sometimes, rack and stack focus simply refuse to work, and you need to restart your camera. The 70D is out, and every prosumer shooter is looking to get that, but there is no hack yet on the 70D. First second of recorded audio may be very loud. The nice thing about this camera at this point in time is that it is undervalued. I’ll take the extra color and dynamis range over 180 pixels any day. It will do continuous RAW at 960×540, which I have found looks gorgeous when upscaled to 720p. It will shoot RAW at 1728×972 for 137 frames- almost six seconds if you need that image resolution for B-roll. This is the story of how it happened and the things I tried doing to fix it before finally giving up and sending it off to be repaired.
MAGIC LANTERN CANON 60D ISSUES MANUAL
THe SD cards just arent meant to handle that kind of bandwidth, and so the writer for the camera is the bottleneck. A few months ago I managed to brick my wife’s Canon 60D. Its perfectly compatible with Magic Lantern (unlike the 5D), has manual audio control, multiple shooting speeds and resolutions including 60fps at 720p. Now the bad: they shoot on SD cards, so the buffer and write speed internally on the camera is what limits how much RAW footage you can shoot before the camera cuts off the clip.
But really- with class 10 cards so cheap, just get a whole bunch and forget it. I like to keep a mini-sd card adapter on me also, so i can pull the card out of my phone or my nook and use that if i get desperate. (eye-fi may be buggy with Magic Lantern fyi) I know many shooters that keep an SD card in their wallet for those occasions when they’re out on a shoot, and when they get to location, they remember that their card is in the reader back home. That means if you want to add an eye-fi card to make it wireless you can, and SD cards are cheap and plentiful, and you can share with your existing supply. The advantage and disadvatage of this camera is that it shoots on SD cards. The noise was gone, the audio was clean, on the DR-60D as well as the Canon 5D-MkII camera. Next, we duplicated the setup, but substituting a Tascam DR-60D from the new batch. It has more weatherproofing than the Rebel line (though not as much as the 7D), and shutter that is good for 100,000 actuations as opposed tho the 50,000 of its cheaper brethren. We then upgraded the customer’s DR-60D firmware from v1.0 to v1.1 and then to v1.2, which had no affect on solving the noise problem. It has a foldout screen not found on the Full-frames, which means you can shoot without an external monitor to keep your setup light, and still shoot from very high or low angles and keep your eye on the frame. It has an APS-C size sensor, making it very close to Super35 in sensor size, so lens selection is easy. The Canon 60D is maybe one of my favorites of the lineup.