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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."

3 of 242 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How long before... by kidgenius · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How did Linksys cripple the 54G? IIRC, they came out with the 54GL variant to keep the hacker crowd happy.

  2. Shame by BigBadBus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Its a darn shame they, and other camera manufacturers, can't solve this problem

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  3. Re:Pointless by cthulhu11 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And YOU don't understand that "raw" is a word not an acronym, and shouldn't be uppercased.