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Hacking Canon Point-and-Shoot Cameras

Posted by kdawson on from the now-don't-brick-it dept.

Pig Hogger writes "If you're stuck with a cheap Canon point-and-shoot camera and have feature envy over the neighbor's sophisticated latest model, fret not! According to this LifeHacker article, the CHDK project allows nearly complete programmatic control of cheap Canon point-and-shoot cameras, enabling users to add features, up to and including games and BASIC scripting."

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  1. Pointless by Uncle+Focker · · Score: 4, Funny

    enabling users to add features, up to and including games and BASIC scripting." Just what everyone in the world was clamoring for: games for their camera.
    1. Re:Pointless by Intron · · Score: 4, Funny

      I need games on my camera. I'm running out of room on my cell phone.

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    2. Re:Pointless by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 4, Funny

      My cellphone IS my camera, you insensitive clod!!!!

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    3. Re:Pointless by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well I'm assuming that's just some initial hacks they got working.

      What I really want to know is if you can disable the software that prevents the camera from stealing the souls of those photographed. Digital cameras are amazingly convenient and powerful compared to their non-digital ancestors, but they're useless to me unless I can steal souls.

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    4. Re:Pointless by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

      they're useless to me unless I can steal souls. Give it some time; they're trying to get Windows installed on these cameras.
  2. Re:Only Point and Shoots? by BAKup · · Score: 2, Funny

    You like big apertures, and you can not lie?

  3. Re:Pointless... Between that and FPS games... by davidsyes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Withstanding OR notwithstanding the DCMA, I think the developers and players could be literally figuratively "shooting themselves in the foot"... (LOL!)

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  4. Re:The most important question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be new. The real question is "does it run linux"

  5. Re:Fire the cannons, Canon? by Z34107 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Canon hacking has hit mainstream, it seems...

    Yes, but what does this mean for our navy?!

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  6. Convergence by Repton · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're making a video with your phone, when it rings. Unwilling to interrupt your filming, you hit the divert button, redirecting the call to your MP3 player. This annoys your offspring, who were watching a movie on it. To placate them, you tell them to fetch your video camera, which they can use to stream the same movie to your television in higher quality...

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  7. Re:Pointless... Between that and FPS games... by timster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some of us are long since bored with karma and just hang out here in the hopes of finding a good opportunity for a joke.

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