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 ...

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 ...

While researching the CHDK How-To, we came across the team’s instructions for porting the firmware to entirely new cameras. In theory, CHDK should work on any Canon running the DIGIC II or III ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remember the Canon Hacker's Development Kit, aka CHDK—the open-source firmware that turns your point-and-shoot into a super-camera? Here's how bug enthusiast Tim used CHDK and DIY ingenuity for better ...

If you’d like to try out the CHDK Canon digicam firmware add-on that I mentioned a few days ago for yourself but you don’t want to take a chance on an Ebay-sourced used unit, Canon’s PowerShot A460 ...

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 ...

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 ...