magic lantern for sports with 7D???

Hi, this may be a dumb question. I've seen lots of mentions of ML firmware, now I see that the 7D can have what's called dual iso shooting RE: shooting at ISO 100 and 1600 simultaneously. this would seem like a good thing to someone like me(that shoots swim meets in crappy lighting). Have any of you tried this?

Thanks, Tom

I have never use ML but being able to shot two ISO settings at the same time with both pictures having correct exposure sounds great to me. Has anyone done this yet and could would you post some examples.

Calicajun: this isn't 2 pictures, they split the vertical lines (I think) in the sensor so every other line is iso100, the others at 1600 so you get 1 raw file with 2 isos... supposedly less noise, and I'd guess easier AF acquisition under bad light, which is why this seems like a dream come true. the problem I've had is everyone talks about the advantages, but relating to video

Thumpa wrote in post #16151591
Calicajun: this isn't 2 pictures, they split the vertical lines (I think) in the sensor so every other line is iso100, the others at 1600 so you get 1 raw file with 2 isos... supposedly less noise, and I'd guess easier AF acquisition under bad light, which is why this seems like a dream come true. the problem I've had is everyone talks about the advantages, but relating to video

Okay, one picture shot using two different ISO setting at the same time. Is this like a HDR using ISO setting instead of shutter speed setting to capture the picture? Still like to see a picture posted using this ML setting.

That is the way I understand it.

Why? One low noise and one high?

From what I read yes. Cutting the noise level down

It's supposed to give you extra stops of dynamic range without much (if any) additional noise. Huge breakthrough in the video world with the 5DIII as it brings it up into the league of cinema cameras, but it's only for stills on the 7D so there isn't much talk about it.

The video examples that I've seen of how it works make it seem like an amazing feature that Canon should have thought of. This does fundamentally change how the sensor works though, and it seems like the most risky ML firmware to try because of it.