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Living Room / Re: Supercharge Your Camera with Open-Source CHDK Firmware

« on: April 24, 2008, 08:20 AM »

I thought this was the answer to my prayers until I discovered the fix only applied to Canon cameras, does anyone know anything similar for the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50 camera?

 

Digital cameras have powers beyond what is immediately available to the user. On a standard Canon, for example, the fastest shutter speed option offered is 1/1,600 second, but the hardware can handle much more than that -- up to 1/60,000 of a second.

CHDK, the Canon Hacker's Development Kit, is an open-source software project that can be loaded on cameras using Canon's DIGIC II or DIGIC III firmware platforms. [...]

http://howto.wired.c...Source_CHDK_Firmware