As anyone who has lusted over the technical specifications for Canon’s new Digital Rebel XSi knows, the capabilities of the average point and shoot camera are severely limited. Using the CHDK firmware ...

There’s a certain thrill in making an electronic gadget do something that the manufacturer wouldn’t otherwise give you access to. I first experienced this thrill over a decade ago when jailbreaking my ...

[AlxDroidDev] built himself a nice remote control box for CHDK-enabled cameras. If you haven’t heard of CHDK, it’s a pretty cool software modification for some Canon cameras. CHDK adds many new ...

You don't need to spend thousands of dollars on a camera just for features like motion sensing, time lapse, RAW images, and control over exposure and shutter speeds. If you have a simple Canon ...

Digital cameras are generally closed platforms, built and programmed under the assumption that they would never be modified. To get more features, you pay more for different firmware, even though the ...

Audio nut and thoriated tungsten aficionado Richard King just sent a cool link to a site that helps you add features to your Canon digital camera by replacing or installing a boot-file in the memory ...

May 6, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support ...

We love point-and-shoot pocket cameras for their small size and ease of use, but we lament their relatively paltry feature sets when compared to more expensive DSLR models. The good news, for owners ...

Last year, two Canadian teenagers, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, successfully sent a Lego mini figure up into space using a weather balloon as the vehicle. To document the event from liftoff to ...

Canon's June 2nd firmware update for the 5D MkII added much-needed manual exposure control to the video-shooting part of its DSLR, but there is still a long way to go until the camera's software ...

Canon isn't the only game in town when it comes to hacking camera firmware. The famous CHDK firmware hacks now have a rival, at least if you are shooting with a Panasonic GH1, and especially if you ...