"Neil K." wrote:
>
> At 5:29 PM -0700 4/1/2001, Gary Fisher wrote:
> >They did it with the 10/10s and the 100/Elan. The
> >biggest problem with barcodes was carrying around the
> >barcode reader and the book of barcodes, looking up
> >the one you wanted, scanning it .... you get the idea.
>
> Wellll, the barcodes are also pretty useless. They simply let you
> program your own idiot modes. You can set a few things like, say,
> whether you want aperture priority or whether flash comes on or
> whatever.
>
> But you can't radically alter the behaviour of the camera. You can't
> go in and reprogram it to support an intervalometer, or adjust the
> RC-1 IR sensor timeout period or permit the redeye reduction lamp to
> work with second-curtain sync or anything else actually useful.
>
> What us camera geeks would really love, of course, would be a nice
> direct interface to the camera's firmware. You'd plug in a wire,
> alter the firmware (preferably through a nice simple flowchart GUI,
> of course) and then flash the EEPROM. Naturally there'd be a Palm
> interface so you could do this in the field as well.
>
> This would be totally cool, but I really don't think the geek market
> is even remotely big enough to support something like this. I
> understand at least some parts of the firmware are flashable in at
> least some EOS models via the hotshoe, but via proprietary Canon
> testing gear only. For some reason, though, there doesn't seem to be
> much hacker interest in figuring this all out.
>
> - Neil K.
>
But what if it were done at your authorized Canon dealer at the time of
purchase for a nominal (say $25) charge?
Skip
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