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Honestly it would make more sense to buy an old $300 Canon camera, install Magic Lantern (or CHDK)

Hate to say it, but in my experience open source hardware is always been poor quality, unless it's a single board computer.



This targets a different class of imaging. It is meant to compete with equipment typically used to film movies, which cost significantly more.


Yes, but the Canon 5D has been used for (some) professional movies.


Canon 5D markIII with MagicLantern could produce superb RAW footages. I never graded better source material.

Unfortunately, production is huge luck. You cannot preview recorded footages (only BW, low res, low framerate preview). Postproduction require extra step of converting fotages to something more common like ProRes 422. Which is another place for error.

TLDR it is not suitable for professional production because of lack of preview on set.




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