F&V ultra-color LED panels – CRI = 95 !!!

The respected lighting & accessories company F&V just updated their LED panel line-up. Additionally to their good quality affordable large and compact LED’s they’ve added ultra-high CRI (color rendition) panels to the mix. Nice!

We’ve been following the development of F&V lights very closely over the past years and this has several reasons:
- Even their affordable LED lights had very good CRI values (85). The 3 light kit for example
- Their lights have very strong light outputs.
- Their lights are very affordable. The 3-light kit for example goes for $1000 (LINK)
- The lights might not look supercool, but their built quality is solid and lightweight.

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Magic Lantern 2.3 is here – and it looks pretty good

The testing phase for Magic Lantern 2.3 is over. Magic Lantern 2.3 release version is now here and the creators say it’s no longer a “hack”.

We can safely say it’s no longer a hack, but it’s strongly heading towards a solid piece of engineering that you can trust.
We have worked a lot on bug-fixing and usability improvements and we sincerely hope you will find it a great companion for all your shooting sessions – from hobbyist to professional.

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Magic Lantern 2.3 RC1 testing just started

Some promising news comes from the Magic Lantern website today.

Feature highlights of the upcoming version:
- First full support for 5D mark II
- Supports latest Canon firmware for 5D mark II, 60D, 600D and 50D
- Advanced ISO control (ISO 80, improved highlight rolloff, ISO 51200…)
- Advanced FPS control (24.000 FPS and 0.2 FPS possible)
- High speed operating through shortcuts (read more)
- New menu design
- Much improved stability (read more)

This is what they wrote:
As promised last week, we are very close to the 2.3 release. We’d like to run a release candidate testing first (RC1), so we’ll start this today.

As a special gesture to the donors and contributors to the ML project, we would like to thank them by giving them access to the release candidate in the forum section accessible to contributors and supporters. Currently we match donors and forum members by hand, so if we miss any of you, please contact me or Bart via PM.

For providing testing feedback, you will have to complete a small quiz. Your feedback will help us fix any remaining problems and announce a release date for the stable v2.3, which will be available to those who donate at least 10 euro to keep us running. After three weeks, this version will become free for everybody.

ML 2.3 RC1 works on Canon 5D Mark II 2.1.2, 550D 1.0.9, 60D 1.1.1, 600D 1.0.2, 50D 1.0.9 and 500D 1.1.1.

via MagicLantern.fm

Zacuto’s grip relocator for the C300 is here

This is one of Zacuto’s extremely useful inventions this year. A cable and mount to relocate all that camera control for the Canon EOS C300

We’ve been given an introduction to Zacuto’s new Recoil Rig, the Tornado handgrip follow focus & the C300 grip relocator in April (LINK)

While we still don’t know when the cool Tornado Follow Focus will be out we have just received a release date for the new C300 grip relocator:
It will start shipping on July 5th and take another 7-10 days from there.

Grip Relocator only is $337.25 and can be ordered here:

Grip Relocator with Zgrip Handle is $565.95 and can be ordered here:

Europeans can get it at the Zacuto store.

Well that is certainly not cheap for a cable and plug, but probably very worthwhile for C300 shooters.

This also works for the Canon EOS C500 by the way.