Turn Your Compact Canon Camera Into a Super-Camera With CHDK

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 9, 2010

“In CHDK part 1, you downloaded the Canon Hack Development
Toolkit and got it running on your camera. By design it is safe to
install and won’t brick your camera. Now let’s look at some of what
CHDK offers.

“Basic CHDK Features

“CHDK gives you a whole new set of menus, accessed with the
“Shortcut” key. So your first task is to identify that key. If your
camera has a “Print” key, use that; if you have a key labeled
“Shortcut”, that’s the one. If all else fails, check your camera’s
page on the CHDK wiki. When you find and press the Shortcut key,
you’ll see the word Alt in blue at the bottom of the screen (Figure
1).”

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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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