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I don't believe they did. Where did they say that?

Over the years, a few devs have temp soft bricked cams, requiring various non-standard methods to restore them to working order. I think all attempts succeeded so far! I don't thin…

I don't know of a way to do that. I don't think the cam will ever display an image on LV while a capture is in progress. The readout process from the sensor is fundamentally decoup…

I am definitely an astro noob :) LV sampling was just the first idea I thought of. We could also load the last image while the next was being taken, and extract guide points from t…

Nearly all Canons have a small access port as part of the battery door, which you can put a power supply cable / through, by design. Don't buy too cheap a dummy battery, the really…

Ah I'd love an astro conversion. I've had a fun idea knocking around for a while for astro. These cams have a fairly accessible serial port, hidden under the thumb grip rubber. I t…

You're a better photographer than I am. I'm glad if ML helped you. Please recruit your programmer friends to the cause :) The R7 is a target cam, but nobody has started work on it …

Yes, it gets a bit blurry, especially given how fast solid-state storage is these days. I think IoT has seen a resurgence in firmware devs... but regrettably not so much in quality…

5D3 is perhaps the best currently supported ML cam for video. It's very capable - good choice. Using both CF and SD cards simultaneously, it can record at about 145MB/s, so you can…

Yeah, the external timer behaviour is fairly strong evidence. Curious though. These cams all seem to have a milli- and micro-second hw clock, and can both schedule and sleep agains…

Okay, good, just making sure :) Fun to hear that at least some photo gear places are aware of ML! I have done a stint in QA, as well as highly aggressive security testing against a…

Canon have never had any contact with ML project for any reason, to the best of my knowledge. The decision to stay away from 1D series was made by ML team, I would say out of an ab…

Strange, it certainly can do sub 5s on some bodies. But I don't have a 5d2 to test with. Could this be a conflict with long exposures? Conceivably AF, too. The intervalometer will …

Thanks, and for what it's worth, I didn't downvote you (account is too new to even do so :D ), and I agree with your main point - it's not that hard to avoid all compiler warnings …

I've taught several different languages to both 1st year uni students, and new joiners to a technical company, where they had no programming background. Honestly, C seems to be one…

6D2 is a nice cam, and one I happen to own. This cam is under active development. Locally I have ~FHD raw video working.

The entire copyright and patent system is built on the principle of forcing the release of IP; it is time delayed in exchange for the legal protections you gain if you opt in to th…

They were trendy at the time :D I think possibly someone thought it sounded a bit like firmware?

Canon's legal team have never said anything about Magic Lantern in any context that I'm aware of. The high end cams need ML less, they have more features stock, plus devs need acce…

I wouldn't recommend the 600D if you want to do video. For stills it's perfectly acceptable. Auto-focus will feel slow compared to a modern cam. If you're going for an old / budget…

That would have been only a little before a1ex left. Getting code running on real hardware is easy, maybe I'll talk to you in discord in a few months when you find this fabled free…

I agree with some of what you're saying; some of the well known risks of working in C are because it's a small standard. But much of the undefined behaviour was deliberately made t…

That must have been a few years back. I think you're talking about enabling "camera bootflag". We provide an automated way to do this for new installs on release builds, but don't …

I stand by my statement! Compare the length of the C standard to JS / ECMAScript, or C++! :) Maaaaybe I'm hiding a tradeoff around complexity vs built-in features, but volunteers c…

It's not firmware :) We use what is probably engineering functionality, built into the OS, to load and execute a file from disk. We run as a (mostly) normal program on the cam's no…