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Planet 5D: Magic Lantern Team Cracks the Canon 7D

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09/18/2012
09/18/2012
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Last Updated on 09/18/2012 by Chris Gampat

And now for some not so Photokina 2012 news: Planet 5D got a scoop on the new Magic Lantern update for the Canon 7D. If you remember, the 7D was given an insane firmware update to make it really viable for videographers (it already was to begin with minus the rolling shutter issues.) According to their team, they started around three years ago. The most amazing thing about it is that the firmware doesn’t need to run on both DIGIC 4 processors.

Mitch has a lot more info on his blog post, but this is some awesome news for videographers that have been getting a little annoyed at Canon for not delivering something better than the 5D Mk III and below the C100’s price: and trust me, there are a lot of them out there. The closest thing they have is the BMCC, but the new Micro Four Thirds mount version may kill the EOS mount version before it really takes off.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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