Magic Lantern 2025: Midsummer Edition – Forum Announcement and Discussion Summary --- Overview On June 21, 2025, the Magic Lantern developer namesarehard announced the official return of Magic Lantern (ML) builds, covering all supported Canon cameras. After a challenging period around 2020 when the lead developer left and documentation and build systems became fragmented, the core team rebuilt and modernized the project. The announcement highlights: Regular, tested official releases via the main website (no longer distributed through forum threads). Bug fixes for reported issues. Support for new cameras is growing. A modernized build system using Git and modern tools, making it easier for contributors. The new core team introduction. Core Team: g3gg0 kitor namesarehard (lead developer) WalterSchulz Link to downloads: Magic Lantern Downloads --- What This Means For Users More frequent, stable releases with official support. Builds tested thoroughly, covering old and new cameras. Better development infrastructure, including code cleanup and smaller, faster builds. Strategic integration of features from older forks (like croprec, luafix) into a single unified build. A call for contributors with C programming knowledge to help grow the project. --- New Camera Support Four new Canon models supported, which represent newer generations of Digic processors (6 and 7): Canon EOS 200D (Kiss X9, Rebel SL2) Canon EOS 6D Mark II Canon EOS 750D (Rebel T6i, Kiss X8i) Canon EOS 7D Mark II Basic utility features available for these include: Intervalometer Custom crop marks Shutter count 30-minute Live View powersave disable (useful for webcam HDMI out) Highlights for EOS 200D: Working raw video with Dual Pixel Autofocus (DPAF) and Dual ISO. Raw video is somewhat quirky, but useful results can be achieved. Higher dynamic range compared to EOS M and 5D3 at ISO 100 and 200. Extended MOV/MP4 recording time enabled, discovered thanks to developer Space928. --- Features in Progress and Challenges Trap focus on 7D2 nearing completion (complex GUI work). Raw video support on 6D2 and 7D2 is more difficult due to hardware complexity and lack of deep understanding of EDMAC (data management). Improvements expected to enable new features across several camera generations. --- Legacy Cameras and Builds No new features specific for EOS M in this initial release, but many bug fixes apply across all cameras. The plan is to integrate useful features from past forks (e.g., Bilal, Danne builds) into the unified code base. Digic 4 and 5 cameras (older models) have fewer testers and limited support due to loss of the QEMU testing framework and ROM dumps. Experimental builds (croprec, 10bit mlvrec, lua_fix, etc.) no longer exist as separate branches but are merged into the main branch to avoid fragmented development. --- Developer and Community Notes The project is now easier for new developers to join. GitHub source: ML repository commits Developer guide: Hardware documentation Active Discord for real-time discussion and collaboration: Magic Lantern Discord Acknowledgments to many contributors, including community favorites for software tools such as MLV App and Kinochrome player/editor. --- User Feedback Highlights Enthusiastic welcome for ML’s return and support expansion. Questions about EOS M benefit answered: fixes included, but little new code yet; plans for future integration of popular features. Thanks expressed for smooth codebase consolidation and usability improvements. Some concerns raised over limited updates for older Digic 4/5 cameras,