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Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A Pseudo-10D
Reverb9 writes "When Canon introduced the Digital Rebel, the world's first entry-level Digital SLR camera, many remarked on its similarities to the 10D , its $500 more expensive big brother. In fact, the two cameras share much of the same technology and so Canon implemented a number of software-based limitations to avoid destroying sales of the professional-oriented 10D. Now, a new hack that restores a previously hidden menu along with a few additional tricks has added nearly all of those 10D features to the Rebel, with an arguably superior user interface to boot. Canon has so far said little on the hack but certainly cannot be happy with its potential effect on sales. This is, however, a reality that more corporations are having to confront. In an era where programming labour is relatively cheap and computer connectivity more frequent can artificial, marketing-driven, barriers between technology products, last?"
picture that...
It sounds similar to a computer which to speed it up a wire had to be cut. After the customers found this out bulletins were spread out among the customers(by other customers) warning them not to cut the wire as it would lead to a faster computer and better performance (can't remember the source, just the story).
But, the article, submitter, sure has a thing, for commas.
Just ask your mom, last night she figured out the 'up up down down left right left right...' hack.
She had more continues than I care to remember.
yea, but these "features" cost money. The hack doesn't.
That big ass spoiler, adds 20 hp.
That unpainted body kit on your riced out civic. 10 hp, but it looks like crap, IMHO.
And who the heak thought a coffee can made a good exahust sound?
-Grump
Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
What part of the normal music market will learn to download MP3s off the internet? Probably almost none of it, if they can find or understand them. So that leaves the likes of the Slashdot crowd, and that really isn't a big enough group to put a dent into cultural acceptance. Oh wait...
just how many other devices have similar "hidden" features, just waiting to be hacked. I suspect it's a lot.
The Nissan Sentra has the same engine and frame as the more expensive 200SX, but for the life of me I can't find the software hack to change the body panels of my sentra.
But the software hack changes the plastic body to a magnesium one, then you just need to paint it black.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I have one of those Motorola digital cable boxes. One afternoon my one-year-old nephew was crawling around and put his hand down on the remote. He apparently pushed just the right combination of buttons to access some sort of set-up menu. There was all sorts of settings that were obviously above my head, thus I was too chicken to make any changes for fear of really screwing up something, or worse. So I cancelled out of it and have yet to find out how to access it again. Makes me wonder what sort of stuff I could have tapped into had I known more about what I was doing.
You got something against dead people?
He apparently pushed just the right combination of buttons to access some sort of set-up menu.
Yes, but that was intentional. I think your nephew has been hacking around in Emacs behind your back...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Yeah, because I frequently need to stop bullets or pound nails and stuff with my $1000 camera.
The Japanese know their shit, man. They really do.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but it sounds like the hack you mentioned lets you go through a special sequence of events to rev the engine and then dump the clutch.
I am probably missing something, since this appears to be on a car with a manual transmission to begin with, but why can't you just leave the car out of gear, rev to the desired RPM, and then dump the clutch? If this is not possible on a new car, then I think I will stick with my old car! Because, let me tell you, on an old car, if you want to rev the engine and then dump the clutch, then by golly, all you've got to do is rev the damned engine and then, you guessed it, dump the clutch! Anything that makes this more complicated is, in my mind, NOT an improvement!
I had a similar incident when my pet monkey grabbed the remote. Suddenly it would only play audio in Spanish. Nothing I did would return it to English... it was weird.
I'm all for artificially imposed limitations, owning both a Minidisc player and a Radeon 9800SE. Let's all keep this nice and quiet and pretend we know nothing about the disabled functionality. If we're lucky, they'll keep putting more of said functionality in without charging us for it.
Well when I was your age, we had to push a button to get 'turbo' performance out of our computers! And that's the way it was, and we liked it!
Yeah. I'm still puzzled why some people prefer to be called disabled instead of handicapped.