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Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera

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on 2008-05-06 by kwbridge

If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera. Let's transform your your point-and-shoot into a super camera just by adding a little special sauce to its firmware.

on 2008-05-07 by bryanshort12

Wow, non-permanent firware enhancements! Sign me up!

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Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera
By Adam Pash, 9:00 AM on Tue May 6 2008, 497,574 views


If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera. Let's transform your point-and-shoot into a super camera just by adding a little special sauce to its firmware.

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I emphasize the enhancement aspect of CHDK because the tool is non-permanent and non-destructive, meaning that you load it onto your camera whenever you want to use it; CHDK makes no changes to your camera, and turning it off is simply a matter of restarting your camera.

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