 Hack your Canon point and shoot... |
Hack your Canon point and shoot... | ||||||||||||||||||
| The software that comes with your canon point and shoot - limits what the camera is capable of... hack it :) | ||||||||||||||||||
 Ali Ali Watters Post Count: 2929 Msg: #1 186 days ago, April 10th 2008 | Wired's How to Supercharge Your Camera | Essentially you install a version of firmware that will allow you to run custom scripts. I've just installed the software - I can now store raw images, set my shutter speed up to 1/80000 of a second, and all sorts of other things I'm yet to play with. This is probably for the more technically adventurous of us - but if you have a play with it - let us know how you get on - I'll see what happens today and post any cool shots.  aspiringnomad Jason Post Count: 25 Msg: #2 182 days ago, April 14th 2008 | It's more cynical than that I'm afraid... | As someone who teaches economics I've known of the concept of 'crippleware' for some time; companies deliberately disable their own products, because it's cheaper for them take their best products and disable them all the way down the product line, than design them independently... The difference between a $1500 camera for example, and it's $500 little brother, is not as great as the companies would have us believe... [Edited: 16:45 - aspiringnomad ] Ali Ali Watters Post Count: 2929 Msg: #3 179 days ago, April 17th 2008 | Yep ;) - I think in the case of my little brother canon - there isn't a huge amount more the hardware can do. | But Nikon might be sending out 24.4mp D3 cameras - an interesting possibility :) Number of Users: 2 | Number of Posts: 3 | |||||||||||
