For the Canon digital camera owners
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For the Canon digital camera owners
It you own a Canon point-and-shoot digital camera, you might be able to get some more functions from your camera for free.
There is a CHDK download (that you put on your memory card) that unlocks a lot of features on your Canon camera.
Here is a link for more info <click here>
Doownload your "hack" here (I suggest the "Allbest" download)
Most of these functions are bbeyond my ability to comprehend, but I have already used the long-shutter for taking night photos without a flash. I also love the % of battery life being displayed.
Let me know what fetures you use with your CHDK software.
edited to add: if you don't like the changes, you can simply delete it from your memory card. Then you will have your old camera functions again. You have nothing to loose.
There is a CHDK download (that you put on your memory card) that unlocks a lot of features on your Canon camera.
Here is a link for more info <click here>
Doownload your "hack" here (I suggest the "Allbest" download)
Most of these functions are bbeyond my ability to comprehend, but I have already used the long-shutter for taking night photos without a flash. I also love the % of battery life being displayed.
Let me know what fetures you use with your CHDK software.
edited to add: if you don't like the changes, you can simply delete it from your memory card. Then you will have your old camera functions again. You have nothing to loose.
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RE: For the Canon digital camera owners
hmmm, what kind of stuff does it unlock? I have an SLR, but I can't imagine it unlocking anything since I only know how to use about 50% of the features on it.
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I don't think it will help your SLR, but for us poor point-n-shoot guys, it can:
a. Enhanced ways of recording images - you can capture still pictures in RAW format (as well as JPEG), and for video images you can have increased recording time and length (1 hour or 2 GB), and a greatly increased range of compression options.
b. Additional data displays on the LCD screen - histogram, battery life indicator, depth of focus, and many more.
c. Additional photographic settings that are not available on the camera by itself - longer exposure times (up to 65 seconds), faster shutter speeds (1/25,000 sec, and faster in some cases), automatic bracketing of exposure, etc.
d. The ability for the camera to run programs ('scripts', written in a micro-version of the BASIC language) stored on the memory card - these programs allow you to set the camera to perform a sequence of operations under the control of the program. For example, a camera can be programmed to take multiple pictures for focus bracketing, or take a picture when it detects that something in the field of view moves or changes brightness.
e. The ability to take a picture, or start a program on the memory card, by sending a signal into the USB port - you can use the USB cable to take a picture remotely.
f. The ability to do a number of other more useful (and fun) things, such as act as a mini file browser for the memory card, let you play games on the LCD screen, etc.
I just gets me one step ccloser to thinking that I might be ready to buy an SLR... someday
a. Enhanced ways of recording images - you can capture still pictures in RAW format (as well as JPEG), and for video images you can have increased recording time and length (1 hour or 2 GB), and a greatly increased range of compression options.
b. Additional data displays on the LCD screen - histogram, battery life indicator, depth of focus, and many more.
c. Additional photographic settings that are not available on the camera by itself - longer exposure times (up to 65 seconds), faster shutter speeds (1/25,000 sec, and faster in some cases), automatic bracketing of exposure, etc.
d. The ability for the camera to run programs ('scripts', written in a micro-version of the BASIC language) stored on the memory card - these programs allow you to set the camera to perform a sequence of operations under the control of the program. For example, a camera can be programmed to take multiple pictures for focus bracketing, or take a picture when it detects that something in the field of view moves or changes brightness.
e. The ability to take a picture, or start a program on the memory card, by sending a signal into the USB port - you can use the USB cable to take a picture remotely.
f. The ability to do a number of other more useful (and fun) things, such as act as a mini file browser for the memory card, let you play games on the LCD screen, etc.
I just gets me one step ccloser to thinking that I might be ready to buy an SLR... someday
