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Title: Service Notice: EOS C300 and C300PL Firmware Version 1.1.0.1.00 has been discontinued.

To Users of the Canon EOS C300 and C300PL Cinema EOS Cameras.

Thank you for using Canon products.

Details

We have suspended download services for Firmware Version 1.1.0.1.00 that was posted Tuesday November 12, 2013 at 8PM EST, because it has been determined that discrepancies in color balance can occur with footage captured by the EOS C300 and EOS C300PL running Firmware Version 1.1.0.1.00.

We are currently preparing new firmware with a fix for this issue and will release it as soon as it is available.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience, but we ask for your patience during this time.

 

Support
We are preparing new firmware with a fix for this issue. If you have updated your EOS C300 or EOS C300PL firmware to version 1.1.0.1.00, please contact the Canon Customer Support Center. Contact information is provided below. The Canon Customer Support Center will provide you with further details and will restore the camera’s firmware version to 1.0.9.1.00 for any EOS C300 or EOS C300PL camera running firmware version 1.1.0.1.00.

This information is for residents of the United States and Puerto Rico only. If you do not reside in the USA or Puerto Rico, please contact the Canon Customer Support Center in your region.

Please register the EOS C300 and EOS C300PL. By registering, we will be able to notify you via email when service updates are available. If you already registered, please ensure you are opted-in to receive the notification.

Thank you,
Customer Support Operations
Canon U.S.A., Inc

Canon Customer Support Center

Phone: 1-855-CINE-EOS (toll free)
            1-855-246-3367
TDD:    1-866-251-3752 (toll free)
Email:   [email protected]

For additional support options: www.usa.canon.com/support

The excitement is palpable.  Reading the forum posts at the ML Forum you would think photography had just been created.  The news has been milling around for a few weeks that the Magic Lantern dev team had basically reversed engineered Canon's image capture>process>record pipeline such that raw data from the sensor could be extrapolated and written.  Then they excavated some ancient code from Canon's implementation of DryOS that would write DNG files.  Once this was thoroughly tested and accomplished, the ML dev team was miraculously able to instantiate a process of windowing specific parts of the sensor, cropping the raw data output to that size, and writing that cropped raw data stream to the memory card.  This means that, while still in the alpha stage of development, shooters can capture, process, view, and edit the absolute best motion picture imaging these cameras are capable of.  The excitement is palpable..