p.3 #1 · Hacked 300D Firmware Enabling Some Custom Fns?
ChrisGVE wroteit is also possible that some of the 10D features are not mechanically possible: the mirror lock does not seem to work, however, are we sure that the firmware hack is sufficient to allow for a mirror lock, can't it be that some hardware is missing in the 300D to allow for it?
you know what?
I think its possible to get mirror lock on the 300d since it obviously has the mechanical parts needed to lock the mirror up (sensor clean)
p.3 #2 · Hacked 300D Firmware Enabling Some Custom Fns?
kelvinz wrote:
again, apparently it opens up the custom functions menu that the 10d has.
Normally the 300d is missing that menu.
-Kelvin
Kelvin,
What I was driving at is that some bright boy is probably going to have to re-write the firmware to accept input from a different set of controls. Since the 300D isn't wired the same, different buttons, no thumbwheel, etc. just turning on the functions won't necessarily let you control them.
p.3 #3 · Hacked 300D Firmware Enabling Some Custom Fns?
smaug wrote:
Kelvin,
What I was driving at is that some bright boy is probably going to have to re-write the firmware to accept input from a different set of controls. Since the 300D isn't wired the same, different buttons, no thumbwheel, etc. just turning on the functions won't necessarily let you control them.
-Steve
Ah ic what you're getting at, but the thumbwheel dosen't provide any extra functing the 300d dosen't have.
The thumbwheel's only use that the 300d can't use seems to be set white ballance by kelvin's.
But I agree its only a matter of time till they figure out how to make the rest of the 10d custom fucnctions menu work on the 300d.
p.3 #4 · Hacked 300D Firmware Enabling Some Custom Fns?
kelvinz wrote:
Ah ic what you're getting at, but the thumbwheel dosen't provide any extra functing the 300d dosen't have.
The thumbwheel's only use that the 300d can't use seems to be set white ballance by kelvin's.
But I agree its only a matter of time till they figure out how to make the rest of the 10d custom fucnctions menu work on the 300d.
-Kelvin
I'm wondering though if all the firmware to actually perform the functions is in place, or if it was left out of the code... You might be able to enable functions that have no implementation present in the code...
p.3 #5 · Hacked 300D Firmware Enabling Some Custom Fns?
You may be right with this... and as I said before, do we have the "hardware implementation" to actually have all these features to work...
Now, if everything is a matter of porting the code from the 10D to the 300D... it could mean that within both the 10D and the 300D we have much more computing power than we thought... it reminds me a bit of the old Voyager probes sent by NASA: until they got to destination they got many huge improvements...
Now think about the commercial situation of Canon: the pro will soon be served by the 1D2... but Nikon is coming with the D70... does Canon has a new cam to compete with the D70: sure, but they are likely to wait until Photokina or PMA 2005... meanwhile, do they want to see their comparative advantage with the 10/300D melting? Certainly not...
Solution: issuing a new firmware for the 10D and the 300D... the 300D will become a "10D" (some will object: yes, but made of plastic) and the 10D a "super 10D" (maybe a software boost of the ISO sensitivity from 50 to 6400).
p.3 #6 · Hacked 300D Firmware Enabling Some Custom Fns?
ChrisGVE wrote:
Solution: issuing a new firmware for the 10D and the 300D... the 300D will become a "10D" (some will object: yes, but made of plastic) and the 10D a "super 10D" (maybe a software boost of the ISO sensitivity from 50 to 6400).
Sorry to go slightly off subject...
I think what's more likely is just big price reductions in the 10D & 300D, but we'll see.
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