Magic Lantern adalah perangkat lunak tambahan (firmware add-on) open-source untuk kamera Canon EOS (DSLR & MILC) yang berjalan langsung dari kartu SD/CF, tanpa mengubah firmware bawaan pabrik.
Magic Lantern adalah perangkat lunak tambahan gratis yang dijalankan dari kartu SD/CF dan menambahkan sejumlah fitur baru ke kamera Canon EOS yang tidak disertakan dari pabrik oleh Canon.
Dengan Magic Lantern, Anda bisa membuka fitur-fitur lanjutan yang dihilangkan Canon, misalnya:
- Audio meters & monitoring via headphone
- False color, zebras, histogram, waveform, vectorscope
- Focus peaking, magic zoom, trap/rack/follow focus
- RAW video (14-bit), HDR video, kontrol bitrate & framerate
- Intervalometer, bulb timer (hingga 8 jam), timelapse
- Motion detection, exposure bracketing, Kelvin white balance …dan masih banyak lagi semuanya di-on-the-fly lewat menu Magic Lantern
Main Features Magic Lantern
- Audio
- Analog / digital gain adjustments.
- Selectable input source.
- Toggle wind filter.
- Live audio monitoring through with headphones.
- Beep / test tones.
- Exposure
- Kelvin and push-button white balance.
- Auto ETTR (Expose To The Right).
- Exposure Lock for manual mode.
- Manually override exposure settings in LiveView.
- Quickly switch between two exposure presets.
- Toggle exposure simulation on/off (Liveview).
- Dynamic range improvements (Dual ISO, other features being researched).
- Overlays
- Zebras for under/over exposed areas.
- Focus peaking for quickly checking focus.
- Magic Zoom window to fine-tune focus.
- Cropmark overlays for 16×9 bars or any custom shape.
- Overlay a ghost image in live view.
- Spotmeter in live view.
- False color for precise exposure control.
- RGB histogram with RAW support.
- Waveform for perfect green screen lighting.
- Vectorscope for color tones.
- Movie
- Full control over H264 bitrate.
- Full control of recording framerate.
- Record HDR video.
- Custom vignetting for lens correction.
- Record 14-bit uncompressed RAW video to your CF/SD card.
- Experimental 2.5K/3K/4K with 10/12/14-bit RAW video (uncompressed or LJ92).
- Shoot
- Bracketing for exposure, flash, or depth-of-field.
- In-camera intervalometer.
- Custom bulb timer for extra-long exposures.
- Motion detection.
- Silent pictures without shutter actuation.
- Record voice tags for photos / videos.
- Focus
- Trap focus.
- Follow focus.
- Rack focus.
- Focus stacking.
- Custom AF patterns.
- DOF calculator (diffraction-aware).
- Automatic AFMA calibration (DotTune).
- Scripting
- Program your own camera!
- Write Lua scripts in any text editor – no special setup needed!
- Change any ML settings from scripts (menu API).
- Change most Canon settings from scripts (WIP).
- In-camera text editor and calculator.
- Games (implemented as Lua scripts).
Karena bukan rilis resmi Canon, Magic Lantern dipasang “di atas” firmware asli dan sepenuhnya terinstall di kartu memori. Jika terjadi masalah atau Anda ingin kembali ke kondisi pabrik, cukup format ulang kartu atau jalankan ulang firmware update Canon. Penggunaan sepenuhnya “at your own risk” meski ribuan pengguna melaporkan aman, tidak ada jaminan 100% bebas kerusakan atau pengaruh garansi.
