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Hacking Canon Point-and-Shoot Cameras
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."
What's the cheapest camera on the list?
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
which is mostly useless on a camera with a sensor that small.
You don't understand what RAW is for, do you?
RAW allows post-capture editing of exposure, white balance and possibly other parameters. Sensor size matters not - the 4MP Canon 1Ds generated RAW mode files from an APS-C-sized sensor...would you have pooh-poohed that capability?
It was hardly done just to spite the hackers.
If your product still runs adequately with :
- less RAM (cheaper!)
- a slower processor (cheaper!)
Then you go ahead and make the change to:
- increase profit margins
- keep up with your competitors so they don't price you out of the market.
Pretty clear-cut business case. In their case, they went out of their way to provide the original model again, pretty much just for hackers. They could've just dropped the old version, y'know.
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
Everyone's got a camera-phone these days. Fuck that. I want to know when I can get a phone in my camera.