Get Way More from Your Canon Digital Camera with Open-Source Firmware

By Kevin Purdy on April 5, 2008 at 12:51 AM

You might think your consumer-model Canon digital camera can’t pull off the kind of fancy shots and tricks that make you stop and look on Flickr—until you unlock your camera’s potential with the Canon Hacker’s Development Kit. The completely reversible firmware upgrade, available for models running the DIGIC II or DIGIC III platforms, speeds up fast shutter modes (from 1/1,600th of a second to 1/60,000th!), allows for time-lapse photography and other scripted shots, unlimited interval shooting, better HDR pics, and much, much more. Wired’s How-To Wiki has a handy guide and introduction to the CHDK, available at the link below. I lack a Canon to try out the CHDK, so let your fellow readers know what you think if you’ve taken this step already.

Supercharge Your Camera with Open-Source CHDK Firmware [Wired How-To Wiki]


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