Anyone had any experience with magic lantern
ML runs on top of the Canon OS, it doesn't replace it. You always have access to both. I've only been using it for a few months but can't see myself shooting video without it now. I'm running it on my 5Dm3 with no problems really and mine is from a nightly build since no stable build has been released. I don't believe anyone has ever reported bricking their camera. There have been issues but to my knowledge they were all fixed. It can be confusing on how to install it the first time and finding a thorough guide can be difficult as well. You might have better luck since there is a stable release for the 600D. ML runs off of the memory card so make sure to always power down and wait a few seconds before removing the card. It writes stuff to the card during power down so it can corrupt some thing if you remove it too quick or so I've heard. Not sure exactly how it works but just to be safe power down and make sure not to format the card with ML on it. My camera has two card slots so I just have ML on the SD card with it locked always in the camera. As far as warranty, from what I've read Canon will still honor your warranty as long as it can be determined that ML was not the cause of the failure.
The cool things about ML are the overlays. Lots of useful info you can have while recording : Battery %, remaining card capacity, temperature, level, histogram, zoom box to check focus, spot metering, audio levels, focus distance,. All while recording. There is a bunch more I haven't really played with yet either. There are some nice power saving features as well that will dim the screen when you aren't doing anything for a while. There are other fun stuff like RAW video, HDR video and time lapse stuff.
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