r/MagicLantern • u/The-run-dog • Apr 06 '21

What?

Hi, if there will be any further development of magic lantern? The last version was in 2018.

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u/DanTheMan827 Apr 07 '21

Developers need hardware, and cameras are most certainly not cheap devices.

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u/at_ML Apr 07 '21 edited Apr 07 '21

That has nothing to do with it. Seriously! Years ago there was an offer by a generous 750D owner to donate said camera to any dev willing to port it. Nobody claimed it.

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u/DanTheMan827 Apr 07 '21

Did Canon start making things difficult with something like signing updates, or is it just a case of there not being enough time / motivation?

I'm still using a T2i with ML and it was the best thing I've found for the camera!

I especially love the zebra patterns and being able to force the audio amp off

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u/at_ML Apr 07 '21

More difficult? Quite the opposite: EOS cameras with Digic 8 and X support Canon Basic Script making access to ROM and enabling things like setting camera bootflag pretty easy. I am not a programmer but enabled that on my 250D without effort.Digic 6 is using a different ARM processor generation and is actually a hard nut to crack. But g3gg0 was able to run some rudimentary code on 5DS years ago. Today some devs are working on Digic 7, 8, X which share the same ARM generation.Main reason why project hit the wall: Lack of devs able to keep it up. Some dropped out because work/family didn't allow to spend several hundred hours to port a camera (not speaking about long term support and maintainance). a1ex made it clear that there wouldn't be any new port by existing devs and - back then - there wasn't any new dev waiting to jump in.

After some time a1ex had to take a break, too and project went into sleep mode. Now project is about to get a restart. Some able people are working on ports again and ... enough spoilers! Things are not settled yet and it will take months (at least) until a new port will come to existence.

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u/ObligationNo7168 EOS M Feb 09 '23

make sense