{"id":2581,"date":"2012-01-12T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2015-10-28T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:40:33","slug":"magic-lantern-brings-hdr-video-to-select-canon-dslr-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/magic-lantern-brings-hdr-video-to-select-canon-dslr-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Lantern Brings HDR Video To Select Canon DSLR Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of still photography, HDR or high dynamic range photos are all the rage.\u00a0 With HDR, the same picture is taken multiple times at different exposures&#8230;then everything is combined into a singe image.\u00a0 The resulting photograph is often breathtaking due to the melding contrasts of light and dark.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=hdr+image&amp;gs_sm=e&amp;gs_upl=1298l2651l0l4735l9l7l0l1l1l0l278l1479l0.4.3l8l0&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&amp;biw=1680&amp;bih=907&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi&amp;ei=YPwOT574BamvsALA-bjgAw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to see examples of HDR images<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magic Lantern<\/strong>, a custom firmware add-in for Canon DSLR cameras, has recently released an upgrade to their popular utility that allows you to shoot <strong>HDR video<\/strong> (something previously impossible with a single camera).\u00a0 What the software does, while you&#8217;re shooting video, is record different frames at different ISO levels.\u00a0 Then in post-production everything gets melded together, creating HDR video.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;Canon 5D Mark II and 7D users are out of luck.\u00a0 HDR video can only be done with the 60D, T3i and T2i (yes, there are more than a few advantages when it comes to video and lower-end Canon DSLR&#8217;s&#8230;and this is one of them).<\/p>\n<p>To get the Magic Lantern firmware upgrade and\/or learn more, <a href=\"http:\/\/magiclantern.wikia.com\/wiki\/Unified\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 And to see a sample of HDR video in action (it&#8217;s subtle), watch the video below:<\/p>\n[simple_video]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of still photography, HDR or high dynamic range photos are all the rage.\u00a0 With HDR, the same picture is taken multiple times at different exposures&#8230;then everything is combined into a singe image.\u00a0 The resulting photograph is often breathtaking due to the melding contrasts of light and dark.\u00a0 Click here to see examples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[888,889,886,887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2712,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}