Canon Hack Development Kit can turn the camera your ability to be great? You can change your JPEC format of your canon digital camera. We know that most of canon compact/pocket cameras do not have RAW format. It's Not only that, CHDK can make Canon pocket camera has features such as motion-detection, time-lapse,, shutter speed from the 2048s until 1/60000s, bracketing, a live histogram you can even play some kind of games in the camera.
What is CHDK? Canon Hack Development Kit or CHDK is a firmware congenital extra sauce for your Canon digital camera. Why do I call the sauce, because it's adding and enriching nature and does not replace the default firmware of the camera, it's also a non-permanent and non-destructive. This means that you can be done easily if you want to activate the CHDK does. Similarly, You also easily do it if you want to disable or remove it, . Installing CHDK can be done by copying some files to the memory card with the camera and delete the file automatically to disappear CHDK.
What can type of Canon digital camera be installed? Almost all point & shoot of camera canon origin compatible version of its firmware can be installed, for more details click here.
What You Need To Install CHDK?
Types of cameras and compatible firmware versions are consisted of SD card reader and SD memory card.
How to Install Canon Hack Development Kit?
1. Enabling CHDK. Turn the camera in a fashion reviews / View, press MENU and then scroll to the bottom to see more options. Firmware Update Firmware Update Press SET and confirmation will appear, select OK then the camera will load CHDK.
2. Know your camera firmware version. How to know the version of firmware the camera is to create an empty file in your computer, rename the file ver.req. In Windows, right-click the desktop, select New -> Text File, through a rename of untitled.txt ver.req.
Insert a blank SD card into the reader, then copy ver.req into the SD card is. Insert the SD card into the camera, then turn on the camera as usual, change the mode Review / View, press and hold the Function / Set (FUNC.SET), then press and taham button Display (DISP). If successful your camera will display on the LCD for example firmaware version: Firmware Ver GM1.01B, it means that your camera firmware is 1.01B.
3. Download The appropriate CHDK. Download CHD according to the type and version of Canon pocket camera firmware suitable here. Choose a small version if you just want the main feature, with no additional features such as additional switch language or script, I heartily recommend Complete version.
If you've downloaded, unzip the file and copy it to SD Card camera, make sure you copy it to the main level of the SD Card, not into a folder. Insert the SD card into the camera.
Playing games around with CHDK.Active camera is functioning normally to be applied by CHDK , all the buttons also function as usual, except the Direct Print. Press the Direct Print button the camera will go into ALT mode (CHDK mode is active). When you are in the mode ALT (CHDK) will emerge a little ALT below the LCD. When mode of ALT is on, push MENU to see all the options in the CHDK operation, the options's much until game play options are also available (Menu> Misc> Games). Try playing around in the menu functions in ALT mode (CHDK).
How Do I Delete CHDK from the camera?
Firstly, Turn off the camera. Then You Turn again. CHDK is not working, if you want to enable push MENU again scroll through Software Update, and then OK. To permanently eliminate CHDK, insert the SD card into the reader, can see from the computer and delete any files that you unzipped in step earlier. Do not forget to move smeua photos stored on the SD Card to the computer first.
