About Magic Lantern
Magic Lantern is a software enhancement that offers increased functionality to the excellent Canon DSLR and MILC cameras. We have created an open framework, licensed under GPL, for developing extensions to the official firmware.
Magic Lantern is not a "hack", or a modified firmware, it is an independent program that runs alongside Canon's own software. Each time you start your camera, Magic Lantern is loaded from your memory card. Our only modification was to enable the ability to run software from the memory card.
Originally created by Trammell Hudson, Magic Lantern played a role in turning consumer digital cameras into tools suitable for high quality digital filmmaking and is now being developed by photo and video enthusiasts, adding functionality such as: HDR images and video, timelapse, motion detection, focus assist tools, manual audio controls and much more.
The preferred way to contact us is on the forum, where your message can be seen by the entire ML community. Support is usually provided by other users (like you). Therefore, it's best to read how to ask questions before posting, and to have some patience if your question is not answered right away.
You may also contact us by e-mail at [email protected]
Is Magic Lantern legal?
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer:
Copyright (C) 2009 - 2025 Magic Lantern Development Team
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.