Cool: Magic Lantern finally on Canon 7D!

by Sebastian WöberSeptember 18^th, 2012

Oh well finally! Just as the 5D and some other popular Canon HDSLR’s the 7D has finally been firmware hacked by the Magic Lantern Team to provide some additional features and improve the codec.
The 7D keeps getting better by the minute. After the anti aliasing filter and Canon’s manual audio upgrade this seems to be third major step for this popular HDSRL camera and it seems to be coming quite soon.

Just received this in my mail from the Magic Lantern team:
“Yes, that’s true. Our young team member g3gg0 did the impossible, and solved the 7D puzzle within days of receiving the camera from Trammell Hudson (on September 12).

Background: Trammell Hudson started to port Magic Lantern on 7D three years ago. While he was able to run user code using the firmware update procedure, he was not able to run it in parallel with Canon firmware – which was required for Magic Lantern to run as an add-on software, without replacing the main firmware. Since then, we had little or no idea about how to solve this puzzle, until last week, when g3gg0 had an Aha! moment and discovered how to load Canon firmware from autoexec.bin code.

The first analysis shows that porting is straightforward (more or less), and most features will work without major code changes, as Magic Lantern does not have to run on both DIGIC processors. Basic features such as zebra and focus peaking are already working, so you may expect an alpha version to be available soon.”

FIRMWARE DISCUSSION FORUM HERE: LINK