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Hack Your Canon PowerShot to Add Superpowers
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Enhance your Canon camera—and awaken your inner photo geek—with the ultimate hack, adding RAW support, motion detection, time-lapse photography, and much more.
by Ben Z. Gottesman
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The Canon PowerShot family is the most popular line of digital cameras on the market. If you check Flickr's Camera Finder, for example, you'll find that more than 420 million PowerShot photos have been posted to the site, versus 230 million Sony Cyber-shot images, and even less for Nikon, Kodak, and the rest.
The distinction is well deserved. The feature-rich, well-built PowerShots tend to be very reliable and take excellent photos for their class, earning Canon frequent Editors' Choice awards and top scores on our annual readers survey.
But as good as PowerShots are, many people want more from them. For example, with the exception of the PowerShot G9, none of the current models can produce RAW images—the lossless output format that gives the most data possible about an image so the photographer can produce the best possible output. And knowledgeable shooters often like to bracket their shots, taking multiple versions at different settings to increase the odds of capturing the scene right.
Fortunately, an enterprising programmer named Andrei Gratchev figured out how to get under the cameras' hoods and extend their capabilities. Thus the Canon Hacking Development Kit, or CHDK, was born.
CHDK is a firmware extension for many PowerShot models that adds RAW support, auto-bracketing, motion detection, time-lapse photography, and much more. The open-source project is now maintained by a community of developers and enthusiasts. Rather than actually replacing your firmware, which would undoubtedly void your warranty, CHDK is a firmware extension that runs off an SD memory card. Insert a card with the CHDK software and your camera has a bunch of great new features. Remove the card and your camera is just as it always was.
The installation procedure is well documented in the CHDK for Dummies section of the CHDK wiki, but here's an overview of what you need to do.
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Review - Hack Your Canon PowerShot to Add Superpowers - Solutions by PC Magazine
Step by Step Guide - The Canon Hacking Development Kit
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