May 08, 2008
Unleash the Power of Your PowerShot
CHDK is a firmware enhancement for many digital point and shoot cameras made by Canon. After loading CHDK, you get access to a ton of features your PowerShot normally wouldn't have.
- Enhanced ways of recording images: RAW, JPEG, increased video recording times, different compression options
- Information Displays: live histograms, always on battery life indicator, depth of focus
- Photographic Settings: longer exposure times (up to 65 seconds), faster shutter speeds (1/25,000 sec, and faster in some cases), automatic bracketing of exposure
- Scripts: programmable through scripting for creating new features (i.e. trigger shot when movement sensed, change in brightness, automatic bracketing, games)
- Tethered Shooting
The possibilities are seemingly endless. This is definitely a great hack and most importantly, it's non destructive to your camera. You aren't ever replacing the original firmware—just loading more things into memory on demand.
March 11, 2008
Blackr: For Viewing Flickr Photos
Those of you who happen to be frequent Flickr users might like Blackr, a bookmarklet for your browser that hides all the fluff of a Flickr photo page by turning it black. It's sort of like framing the picture...
December 11, 2007
Got an old pair of eye glasses and some electrical tape? Well, then make a cheap kinda sorta fisheye.
October 10, 2007
Getting Exposure from Flickr
It's no joke that Flickr is popular, and with it being popular is a great place to be found. Thiru Murugan has posted 5 Tips to Get Into "Flickr Explore."
June 08, 2007
Curious about where his cat was going, Mr. Lee CatCam was born. Basically, the cat rocks at digital photography.
April 12, 2007
DIY Infrared Filter and Underwater Housing
Sam Noyoun has written two instructables dealing with camera modifications.
The first would have been useful for me last week—a cheap underwater camera housing. The system using "special" Navy SEALS technology (two condoms), provides the seal and a dessicant bag helps keep the moisture out.
The second recently won second prize in a recent instructables.com science contest. (For his efforts he won $10 and a get out of jail free card— Sorry, for some reason I found it necessary to make a Monopoly joke.) This cheap infrared filter can be made in 10 minutes and uses pretty common items.
Thanks Sam for the great tutorials!
Edit: broken link fixed.
February 27, 2007
Credit Card SD Holder
Photojojo points us to Credit Card SD Holder on Instructables. The idea is simple— never be without an extra SD card again. Now if only compact flash was similar in size, I'd be happy.
January 29, 2007
Top 10 Flickr Hacks
As you can probably tell, I am a fan of Flickr. You can tell this by the number of posts I make citing Flickr resources and "hacks." Well, Thomas Hawk has published a list of the Top 10 Flickr Hacks, in which he talks about 10 different uses of Flickr that aren't Flickr themselves. While I agree that some of these sites are "hacks," I was surprised to see another site I truely love, Tabblo on the list.
You see, unlike Flickrleech (#1 on the list, btw), which relies totally on Flickr to function, Tabblo enables you to upload your photos to its site. The Flickr integration is only a convenience and the site does not rely on Flickr to function. I think the Tabblo approach to this is genius too. They being a startup, much like Flickr was, have seen the success and the flock of people using Flickr. They aren't competing with Flickr and in fact they have a totally different product. But, they are able to capitalize on Flickr users, because afterall, who wants to maintain two photo collections on the web? Certainly not me.
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