Magic Lantern Coming Soon to the Canon T2i/550D

Software developer Trammell Hudson announced Saturday that he has already begun developing his free Magic Lantern software for Canon's T2i/550D camera.  As proof, he's posted an initial demo video of the very first signs of the software working on the T2i at the Vimeo video sharing site:

Magic Lantern - 550D/T2i port from Trammell Hudson on Vimeo.

Magic Lantern first became a must have utiity when it gave the top-level Canon DSLR the 5DMark II, features that professional videographers rely on and which Canon itself didn't include in their official firmware release. Canon, like almost all other DSLR manufacturers, was caught off guard by the huge interest among photographers, filmmakers, videographers and average consumers in filming 1080p HD video with their latest cameras that rival in quality what full featured movie cameras used in Hollywood productions can output.

This news will excite thousands of T2i owners who have been waiting months for news that sound meters, automatic gain control management and Zebra stripes will one day soon be available for their DSLRs which are widely used as HD videocameras.   The latest news on Trammell's progress is available on his Google Groups page. He writes: "The first version will have audio meters, lens data and maybe manual audio gain plus monitoring on the A/V jack. "

Contact Trammell directly if you want to volunteer to be among the alpha testers for his upcoming software release.