Hacking the Canon Camera with CHDK
Based on a lot of research, I decided to acquire a Canon G12 which is a pretty awesome camera for the price. One great feature is a firmware hack called the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK). Basically it unleashes a lot of the power available in the camera but not found in the standard Canon interface. Oh I like this!
CHDK Installation
The installation used to have a lot of steps but this has been pretty much automated with the following tools:
Steps are as follows:
- Take a picture and keep it on the SD Card
- Copy off anything on the SD card you want to keep (the card will be formatted in this process)
- Use ACID to determine the camera firmware and download the files needed (basically get everything)
- Unzip the download to a folder
- Use SDMinst to copy everything in that folder to the SD Card (after formatting and repartitioning as two volumes)
- Eject volumes
- Turn the SD card to Locked
Done! You are now booting CHDK instead of the standard ROM.
P.S., there are three necessary accoutrements to this camera: a lightweight tripod, a hotshoe flash, and a wired remote. Now I’ve got to start putting in the time to figure all this stuff out. A challenge but one that comes after hacking android, kindle and migrating to OSX from Windows over the past six months…
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