Actually, I was thinking about hardware add-on's or deletions. EG a
different coloured body, different sized screens, more powerful flash,
cable shutter release.
Just a thought, wouldn't it be nice to upgrade firmware, from a
removable chip? Making reverting to the older version merely a matter of
replacing the old chip.
david
Moose wrote:
> David Carter wrote:
>
>> Hopefully sometime soon, we'll be able to "create" our own personalized
>> camera by choosing the optional "extras" or features we want. In the
>> same way that some new cars can be personalized at the factory. Without
>> having to fatten Leica wallets.
>>
>>
> A digital camera is just a computer activating functions of a machine
> and doing keyboard and file I/O.
>
> If you look into the CHDK group, that's what they have done with Canon
> cameras. They have written a version of basic that compiles to run on
> the camera processor. As it turns out, there is quite a bit more memory
> than the standard processing needs. They research the location of
> functions in the firmware and some I/O ports for the hardware, like the
> keys. Programs can do calculations, store values in memory, all that stuff.
>
> With CHDK loaded, one may literally write programs to custom operate the
> camera. It is, for example, possible to do motion detection, limited, if
> desired, to particular area(s), and trigger camera operations based on
> it. Quite a number of functions have been written and others are possible.
>
> Several functional limits turn out to be firmware imposed, rather than
> hardware limits.
>
> So what you are talking about is already happening. Many of the feature
> differences in their cameras are marketing decided feature sets
> implemented in firmware.
>
> Moose
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