beta · GPL v2 · 13 film stocks · EOS 5D Classic
Press the trash button and a list of film stocks fills the back
screen. Turn the wheel to pick one, press SET. Every photo you take
after that gets a second JPEG saved beside the raw, with the look
already on it.
IMG_1234.CR2 your raw file, untouched
IMG_1234.FLM.JPG the same photo with the look on it
Your raw files are never modified. Delete the JPEG and the photo is exactly as the camera shot it.
⚠️ Beta. Unofficial code on a twenty year old camera. It's easy to remove, and it never modifies your raw files.
⚖️ No warranty. Like all GPL software this comes with none. You install it at your own risk. See sections 11 and 12 of the licence.
🎨 The looks are still being tweaked and will keep changing. The names are shorthand for the films they're based on, not exact copies. All trademarks belong to their owners.
📷 Canon EOS 50D. A community port by @rebelt2i lives on its own branch,
50d.
You need a Canon EOS 5D Classic (the original 2005 one, firmware 1.1.1) and a CompactFlash card. It will not work on any other Canon: the camera-side code is built for this body's firmware.
Follow their instructions, then check the camera starts and their menu opens before going further. Soup Engine never touches your camera's boot flag; their installer does that.
Copy it off the card somewhere safe. Putting it back is how you uninstall.
Unzip to the card root, replacing AUTOEXEC.BIN. Or copy
card/ from this repo, which is the same files.
| file | what it is |
|---|---|
📄 AUTOEXEC.BIN |
replaces Magic Lantern's |
⚙️ SE.BIN |
the engine |
🎞️ ML/FILM/ |
the film stocks |
That's it. Nothing to enable, no menu to find.
While Soup Engine is installed you won't have Magic Lantern's own menu, since this replaces the file that provides it. Put their
autoexec.binback whenever you want it again.
Press the trash button and the picker fills the screen.
| button | what it does |
|---|---|
| 🎛️ Wheel | choose a film |
| ↕️ Up / Down | choose where the look comes from |
✅ SET |
pick that film and close |
| 🗑️ Trash | close, changing nothing |
Your choice survives switching the camera off.
Each photo takes about twenty seconds to develop. You can keep shooting
while it works, and the screen shows FRAME 2 OF 3 when there's a
queue.
On Monochrome every look comes out black and white.
SOURCE: JPEG is the default. Use this.
SOURCE: RAW works from the sensor data instead. It takes minutes
rather than seconds, some colour adjustments can't be applied, and
ACROS won't be black and white.
FILM SPEED 50 on the picker is only a label. It does not change your
camera's ISO.
Thirteen, still under development.
They're small text files in ML/FILM on the card, so you can read them,
change them, or write your own.
A web editor for the film stocks.
Drop in a photo, move sliders, download a .fs, put it on the card.
The preview is this engine's own code compiled to WebAssembly, so it
matches what the camera writes.
Your photo never leaves your browser.
Put Magic Lantern's original autoexec.bin back. That's all.
To pause it without uninstalling, delete SE.BIN. The camera boots
normally without it.
🆘 If the camera ever misbehaves: pull the battery, put the card in a computer, delete
SE.BIN. Don't deleteAUTOEXEC.BINwhile the boot flag is on, because with the flag set and noAUTOEXEC.BINthe camera won't start at all.
This wouldn't exist without Magic Lantern.
Soup Engine runs inside their work. Their build for the 5D Classic is what lets the camera run any of this, and years of their reverse engineering made it possible to understand. They're worth supporting.
Soup Engine isn't their project, so please don't take problems with it to them. Open an issue here instead.
All of it is in src/. AUTOEXEC.BIN is Magic Lantern's program
with 215 bytes changed, and the script that applies them is there too.
GPL v2. See LICENSE. Distributed without any warranty, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose (sections 11 and 12).