Traveling showmen with lanterns on their backs also put on public lantern shows at fairs. The invention was used to project transparent images from glass slides on the walls of theatres, schools and people’s homes. The magic lantern, or ‘laterna magica’, was a fascinating and instructive tool, which was especially popular in the 19th century. How likely is it to happen? If you follow all instructions and use stable releases this is unlikely but not impossible.įor the record: I briefly risked putting MagicLantern onto my 5D MK II but never made any real use of it because I'm a photographer not a videographer.Long before social media, cinema and PowerPoint presentations, images were an important means of communication. What can happen? The absolute worst case is a fried chip which will need a new mainboard.
#Magic lantern update#
Even updating your Firmware using an update from Canon can go wrong. Just like a bug in a program on a computer - a program might be stable during testing and then crash on your computer only. Put it that way, "they" (the developers) do not want to brick your camera, so it should be fine, however, sometimes things go wrong. they have tested it on their own camera and it worked, so it should be fine, however it might still brick your camera. if it says "Firmware 1.1.1" then only use it on that Firmware and not another. Point one is to follow all instructions - i.e.
Let the more adventurous users (I'm one of them) try the new releases first.
#Magic lantern software#
Note that the software does crash from time to time, and sometimes it is necessary to remove the battery to reset the camera. My experience with Magic Lantern on my 60D has been very good, I think the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages and risks. So you always have the choice to run Magic Lantern or not if you keep track of which of your SD cards have Magic Lantern installed and which do not.
#Magic lantern code#
This is important to know, because if you replace the Magic Lantern SD card with a regular SD card (one that does not have Magic Lantern installed) or no SD card at all, the camera will not find any code to load, so it will just load the stock firmware, and there will be absolutely no trace of Magic Lantern.
The bootdisk feature is what enables the camera to load Magic Lantern at boot time. Magic Lantern enables the bootdisk flag in your camera and then installs to the SD card.
This flag tells the camera if it should try to load and execute software stored in the SD card. My understanding is that the only change that is done to your camera is to enable the "bootdisk" flag, which is a very minor change.
#Magic lantern install#
I think something not everybody understands is the Magic Lantern does not install into your camera but to the SD card. The chances of bricking your camera are extremely low (but not zero).
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