How to Give Your Low-End Canon Digital Camera RAW Support | Linux Today

How to Give Your Low-End Canon Digital Camera RAW Support

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 12, 2007

“If you have a point-and-click digital camera made by Canon, you
may be able to turn on all sorts of features usually reserved for
more expensive SLRs. That includes live histograms, depth-of-field
calculation, under and overexposure highlighting, and–best of
all–shooting your pictures in RAW. The secret is CHDK, an
enhanced, free software replacement firmware.

“It is not clear what CHDK developer Andre Gratchev intends the
initials CHDK to stand for, but the user community has speculated
that it means Canon Hacker’s Development Kit…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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