Magic Lantern VS gphoto

Grab an old DSLR off eBay, and get a suitable dummy battery DC adapter and intervalometer for it. If you get a Canon that Magic Lantern supports, you can use a software intervalometer instead. I'm seeing people sell Canon T3's with kit lens for <$100 on Ebay right now (though check descriptions to make sure they actually work!). Source: 11 months ago

If you're already in the Canon ecosystem, why not just get a used 5D mark III? Using Magic Lantern you can then record 3.5K RAW 14bits footages (usable directly under Resolve), may be enough to learn color grading. Source: 11 months ago

> How raw is raw? Certainly no jpeg image produced by any digital camera is really “raw” as it will already have been through a debayering filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter And then on top of that is the JPEG compression artifacts. But I do wonder how many raw files also contain data that has been debayered already. I have not looked into that. I know that with third party firmware such as Magic... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Very niche (specific RAW video import tool), but the whole Magic Lantern's community wait for this kind of optimizations for years, so your guys can become real heroes :-). Source: 11 months ago

If you shoot canon slap Magic Lantern on their and use zebra lines or focus peaking. Https://magiclantern.fm/. Source: 12 months ago

You can control some DSLRs with a USB for Octolapse but it's not easy at all. You will have to make a custom script using something like gphoto2 which is a relatively sophisticated program just to trigger your camera. Then you'll have to make another one to download the image from the camera's RAM to the Pi and move it to the correct directory. It's also much more prone to failure as Octolapse will require a... Source: about 1 year ago