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DIGIC8 Metering (and a rant about the evolution of DIGIC software and post processing on the M)

Started Jun 12, 2019 | Discussions thread
73Instamatic
73Instamatic Regular Member • Posts: 409
Re: It's about software, not just hardware...
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RLight wrote:

RedFox88 wrote:

Digic is the name of canon’s CPU. Digic 8 is faster than 7, that's all.

It's more than that...

Just like a computer, the CPU makes it faster, but, the operating system it runs, gets updated too. ...

The operating system doesn't really have a branded name. But most people would refer to it as the cameras "firmware".

DIGIC is the chip it runs on, not the software.

Where you do have a valid point (which, btw we all get) is that sometimes they will put logic primitives in hardware to accelerate important calculations. That kind of blurs the lines between hardware and software. These are sometimes referred to as ASIC functions (application specific integrated circuits), or implemented using "micro-code".

That said, it's great to see that the OS/firmware gets better every revision

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