brandonanthony1
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I also unfortunately installed 1.0.9... It seems like the AGC isnt disabled in this version? Can we get anything to work with 1.0.9? If I need to downgrade to .8, how do I do it correctly?
Thanks..
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I also unfortunately installed 1.0.9... It seems like the AGC isnt disabled in this version? Can we get anything to work with 1.0.9? If I need to downgrade to .8, how do I do it correctly?
Thanks..
That DOES work. You need to go into the ACG folder and drag the file inside onto the SD card.
I did that and it worked. However, the on-board mic wont. You need to plug a mic in and then the ACG will be disabled.
brandonanthony1
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Gotcha. Got it working, but unfortunately it seems to be very low. I take it because we cannot get a GUI, that we cannot adjust the gain until they get it working on 1.0.9?
Snapper123
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Hey guys, I want to ask:
I was thinking about selling my T2i this month - I was thinking about getting a 60D, personally, the swivel screen would help me in so many ways all on it's own, and I wanted the extensive ISO's and white balances to boot, as well as manual audio. I also simply want to sell my camera as I've never been convinced that the video quality is optimal for what my camera should be doing (this cameras been banged up a couple times), and it'd be an ease of mind just to sell the camera to someone who'd use it more and then buy a 60D.
Thing is, all the sudden, a hack comes out for this thing and really seems to revolutionize it. But I'm truly not a computer efficient person, even looking around this thread is confusing to me, and I simply don't know if I should keep my camera and try to master this hack, or if getting the 60D would for the most part be the same thing. What are the positives and negatives here? And even then, if hacking is the route to go, would I be better to still sell my T2i and get a camera from the GH series instead of hacking the T2i? I personally would rather just skip the hacks and get a 60D, it's appealed to me for a long time, but at the end of the day, I've always felt like the footage from these DSLR's in their natural form suck. So what to do, really?
P.S. I do have to say that so far, I don't really use histograms, to me they're hard to read and I'd rather just go out and buy a light meter. So if the type of histograms are really the only thing the T2i hack has going for it, the 60D would probably be my choice....
I was thinking about selling my T2i this month - I was thinking about getting a 60D, personally, the swivel screen would help me in so many ways all on it's own, and I wanted the extensive ISO's and white balances to boot, as well as manual audio. I also simply want to sell my camera as I've never been convinced that the video quality is optimal for what my camera should be doing (this cameras been banged up a couple times), and it'd be an ease of mind just to sell the camera to someone who'd use it more and then buy a 60D.
Thing is, all the sudden, a hack comes out for this thing and really seems to revolutionize it. But I'm truly not a computer efficient person, even looking around this thread is confusing to me, and I simply don't know if I should keep my camera and try to master this hack, or if getting the 60D would for the most part be the same thing. What are the positives and negatives here? And even then, if hacking is the route to go, would I be better to still sell my T2i and get a camera from the GH series instead of hacking the T2i? I personally would rather just skip the hacks and get a 60D, it's appealed to me for a long time, but at the end of the day, I've always felt like the footage from these DSLR's in their natural form suck. So what to do, really?
P.S. I do have to say that so far, I don't really use histograms, to me they're hard to read and I'd rather just go out and buy a light meter. So if the type of histograms are really the only thing the T2i hack has going for it, the 60D would probably be my choice....
ROCKMORE
Veteran
If you have the extra cash trade up for the 60D.
The hack can spell trouble. Even has a warning disclaimer for the inventor.
As far as the quality is concerned don't underestimate it. I shoot side by side with an EX3 and the little 550d is replacing it.
S. Matthews
Well-known member
I did a test I might get up later, though it was no where near perfect and had a few flaws, I found very little noticeable difference in quality from -8 through up to -15 the highest I could record, for me there was very little difference. On the other hand the other features are great I love them, if you have the knowledge and time this is worth doing but I wouldn't worry to much about Qscale until other post some better results or it is tweaked more (who knows there are many scenarios to test it in which I did not).
happy hacking
happy hacking
Bad feeling of a brick here...
Now, T2i won't even turn-on = definition of bricked?
Followed these very helpful instructions <http://www.derkoi.co.uk/film/index....e-canon-550d-t2i&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=1> with apparent success thru Step 4, battery out, then back in, but now my t2i won't even turn on.
(The make-SD-Card-Bootable step felt a bit strange, but everything seemed to go alright, right up until battery back in... and now, no camera start.)
(Baseline Firmware was 1.0.8. Used a Transcend 16gb Class 10 for attempted Magic Lantern.)
Any suggestions?
(Hopefully not $800 for an attempt at audio meters?... Live, and learn, but this has always been about the glass anyway, right?)
Now, T2i won't even turn-on = definition of bricked?
Followed these very helpful instructions <http://www.derkoi.co.uk/film/index....e-canon-550d-t2i&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=1> with apparent success thru Step 4, battery out, then back in, but now my t2i won't even turn on.
(The make-SD-Card-Bootable step felt a bit strange, but everything seemed to go alright, right up until battery back in... and now, no camera start.)
(Baseline Firmware was 1.0.8. Used a Transcend 16gb Class 10 for attempted Magic Lantern.)
Any suggestions?
(Hopefully not $800 for an attempt at audio meters?... Live, and learn, but this has always been about the glass anyway, right?)
cap10kirk
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It's your SD Card. The same thing happened to me. I followed the same instructions, using my Trancend 16gb card. Didn't work. Camera wouldn't even boot up. Reformatted the card a bunch of times. Same thing. Used my 8gb card. ML worked, no problem. Take out your battery for 2 seconds. Replace the battery. You should be good.
cap10kirk
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What SD card are you using?
S. Matthews
Well-known member
you have to make sure you have the same firmware files on each card you use as well, I also found that only one of my faster cards once made bootable and loaded with the same firmware (just having it on the root file of the sd) would make my camera boot. I thought I had bricked mine as well but once I did this and pressed live view just after turning on I got it to run fine and after that it has been working fine so far. I had to run a lot of the different versions of ML to get it right though, after I messed it up, so try them all if you have to.
hope some of this helps, oh and I have to still remove the battery after each shut down, I think it's fixed but haven't looked into that yet.
hope some of this helps, oh and I have to still remove the battery after each shut down, I think it's fixed but haven't looked into that yet.
cap10kirk
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What SD Card are you using? The highest (lowest?) Q setting I got was Q -9.
S. Matthews
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I'm using a sandisk ultra 8GB 15MB/s, but I can only use the High Q settings on lower ISO's stably, I find Q -10 works the best below 1600, and Q -9 for the rest. Though as I said earlier I'm not to worried about it so I'm going to leave it at -9 for now.
oh and for now it's the only one I have that is working, but I haven't tested the others now that I have figured it out (...I think).
oh and for now it's the only one I have that is working, but I haven't tested the others now that I have figured it out (...I think).
@ cap10kirk / #191:
Many, many thanks... Will sleep well, as no t2i firmware bricklaying at least for this evening.
Changed cards from 16gb down to to a 2gb this time (think this relic arrived with the original Zoom), with Fat 32 formatting thru R-click in Win 7 Ultimate (a formatting procedure which at least for me, seems to work on this particular 2gb card - and in a much more comforting manner than CardTricks, for example).
Then, made bootable by the very kind Dangerous Derk tut... Command line.... "W"... move some batteries, cross-fingers, and voila, Trammell's magic appears.
So, appears am also unable to get ML 1.0.8 cooperation with a 16gb Transcend Class 10.
Is this something with Fat and all 16gb cards in general? (Understand 4gb will work? Somewhat too bad, as kind of like the 16gb size.)
(Lastly, and after thinking I had bricked my t2i... when got to the point of just wanting everything back to "normal" with 1.0.8 Canon dogmatic firmware, was a huge relief to successfully follow Dangerous Derk's recommendation to use the command line "R" command to change the 16gb Transcend card back to non-bootable - and thus T2i back to "normal", with 16gb Transcend movie record mode, albeit without Magic Lantern. Oh, and is slightly tricky when looking for the Firmware version, that the '3rd Wrench' in the Menu, does NOT appear in Movie mode, but rather in a Photo Mode.)
So, again, thanks to Dangerous Derk's tut (and the Captain for talking me off the ledge) - at least with a small 2gb card, am now showing t2i Firmware Ver 1.0.8-ml-0.1.9.
Many, many thanks... Will sleep well, as no t2i firmware bricklaying at least for this evening.
Changed cards from 16gb down to to a 2gb this time (think this relic arrived with the original Zoom), with Fat 32 formatting thru R-click in Win 7 Ultimate (a formatting procedure which at least for me, seems to work on this particular 2gb card - and in a much more comforting manner than CardTricks, for example).
Then, made bootable by the very kind Dangerous Derk tut... Command line.... "W"... move some batteries, cross-fingers, and voila, Trammell's magic appears.
So, appears am also unable to get ML 1.0.8 cooperation with a 16gb Transcend Class 10.
Is this something with Fat and all 16gb cards in general? (Understand 4gb will work? Somewhat too bad, as kind of like the 16gb size.)
(Lastly, and after thinking I had bricked my t2i... when got to the point of just wanting everything back to "normal" with 1.0.8 Canon dogmatic firmware, was a huge relief to successfully follow Dangerous Derk's recommendation to use the command line "R" command to change the 16gb Transcend card back to non-bootable - and thus T2i back to "normal", with 16gb Transcend movie record mode, albeit without Magic Lantern. Oh, and is slightly tricky when looking for the Firmware version, that the '3rd Wrench' in the Menu, does NOT appear in Movie mode, but rather in a Photo Mode.)
So, again, thanks to Dangerous Derk's tut (and the Captain for talking me off the ledge) - at least with a small 2gb card, am now showing t2i Firmware Ver 1.0.8-ml-0.1.9.
DavidFulde
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Anyone have any luck with getting this to work with Macs? I've run the script and... Nothing. 
adammada
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Panasonic Gold Class 10 - no problems . . .
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Nikita
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The rack focus feature looks amazing! Only saw the video of the features so far though. Wanting to wait it out a bit until the firmware is at least in beta. 