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For folks who don't know what Magic Lantern is:

> Magic Lantern is a free software add-on that runs from the SD/CF card and adds a host of new features to Canon EOS cameras that weren't included from the factory by Canon.

It also backports new features to old Canon cameras that aren't supported anymore, and is generally just a really impressive feat of both (1) reverse engineering and (2) keeping old hardware relevant and useful.

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More backstory: before the modern generation of digital cameras - Magic Lantern was one of the early ways to "juice" more power out of early generations of Canon cameras, including RAW video recording.

Today, cameras like Blackmagic and editing platforms like DaVinci handle RAW seamlessly, but it wasn't like this even a few years ago.

Funny, when i saw it uses a .fm TLD i thought it's some online radio.

They were trendy at the time :D

I think possibly someone thought it sounded a bit like firmware?

Same :) I had in mind Groove Salad from soma.fm

last.fm

sub.fm

"Scrobbles" will always be a funny word to me.

I wish there are similar projects for other camera brands like Fujifilm. With abilities of ML on old Canon cameras we know there is a lot of potential in those old machines across other brands. It is also "eco" friendly approach that should be supported.

I just switched from Canon to Fujifilm due to enshitification. Canon started charging $5/mo to get clean video out of their cameras. We're plenty screwed if manufacturers decide that cameras are subscriptions and not glass.

Fuji's are great, but ecosystem is definitely smaller, and I've found some software still doesn't support debayering x-trans

Yeah like Adobe. Whatever method they use has been peak worm creation for over 10 years. Capture one and dcraw are head and shoulders better.

https://fujihack.org/

it also has a scripting system and is damn fun to mess with.

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