There's a cottage industry in Russia hacking Rebel firmware giving the
low end cameras capabilities of higher end models.
On 8/10/2011 8:08 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
I know there are many IT types on the List. I was reading about
cameras running on a standard OS like Android. I'm curious about your
thoughts on this.
You mean like the gazillion android phones and tablets that all have cameras?
I'm not so sure that Android is the right choice. I also don't know as if
camera companies would want their firmware on a standard OS where users could
have a chance of reverse engineering and adding their own improvements. How
many of the features in the K-5 rather than the K-r are software only, and
could be added to the cheaper platform if someone had a decent chance of
reverse engineering, or rewriting the firmware?
yes, it can be done now, but it's a lot more work. I also don't think camera
companies would want to pay for the cost of migrating their software to a new
platform.
A standard OS would be good for the users, but that's not necessarily perceived
to be in the interests of the camera companies.
--
Steve Desjardins
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
PDML@pdml.net
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
--
Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est
--
Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!
--Marvin the Martian.
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
PDML@pdml.net
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
