Cool technology - hacking the firmware of your digital camera
Very cool stuff - some people have discovered that the low-end Canon Cameras lend themselves very nicely to firmware hacking. Your code is loaded into the root directory of your memory card and the camera can read it when it powers up.
The website for this project is here:
CHDK Wiki
From the About page:
The CHDK is a firmware add-on for Canon's compact digital cameras, based on DIGIC II and DIGIC III processors.
The CHDK implements new features like RAW, battery indicator, live histogram (RGB/luminance), zebra mode (blinking areas of over-/underexposure), DOF calculator, scripts (intervalometer, exposure/focus/... bracketing etc.), text reader, file browser, calendar, games and much more. There are now several different builds, implementing features assisting taking 3D-Stereo photos, motion detection etc.
The CHDK firmware add-on does not touch the original firmware of camera. It is an additional program which gets loaded into the memory of the cam.
Posted by DaveH at March 13, 2008 8:07 PM
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