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Because I'm very likely to write about this again I'll start out with a brief introduction to take out the "Huh?!" from the title of my next post on CHDK.
CHDK stands for Canon Hack Development Kit and is essentially software development aimed at radically improving the functionality of your point and shoot Canon camera. If, like me, you don't own a DSLR camera but often find yourself wishing for more functions on your compact Canon PowerShot, CHDK will blow your mind.
CHDK is non-permanent firmware that you load onto your camera at start-up to allow your inexpensive 100 EUR Canon PowerShot camera to do things normally only available on high end cameras, like take pictures in RAW format or compute live, real-time histograms of your photo subjects. More than this, with CHDK you can even load scripts to automate complex tasks on your camera. I'm not going into examples and specifics as I'm still having loads of fun myself, testing a world of possibilities opened up by CHDK but it is really impressive.
To understand more and give CHDK a try go visit the official wiki.
While not all Canon compact cameras are supported I can confirm already testing it very successfully on 6 models: A70, A460, A510, A610, A620, S5.
Enjoy!
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