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Does that mean one takes a photo and gets raw+jpeg? Please give some feedback if anybody inserts this software into this camera.

By the way was there ever a CHDK for the pro1 to be able to take raw +jpeg files? Thanks for alerting everyone.
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Does anyone know if they are working on support for the G10? All I want for my G10 is the ability to see the review image full LCD size WITH BLINKING HIGHLIGHTS THAT ARE EASY TO SEE, PERHAPS BLACK OR RED INSTEAD OF LIGHT GRAY. That would seem simple for those smart CHDK programmers.

Why can't Canon give us a full LCD sized review image that has blinking highlights? Why have such a large and glorious LCD but then force us to view the postage stamp sized image with the light gray slow blinks? This makes it tough for Canon's senior citizens outdoors in the sun.
 
yes. now you can shot jpg and a .dng in the same time :) from what i read from the CHDK forum it's a 12 bit raw.

The sx10 support was just introduce and i'm sure they will further improve it.

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This depends on a developer having access to a G10 camera. Check the CHDK forums for this. I'm sure G10 support will come in time too.
Betarover said:
Does anyone know if they are working on support for the G10? All I
want for my G10 is the ability to see the review image full LCD size
WITH BLINKING HIGHLIGHTS THAT ARE EASY TO SEE, PERHAPS BLACK OR RED
INSTEAD OF LIGHT GRAY. That would seem simple for those smart CHDK
programmers.

Why can't Canon give us a full LCD sized review image that has
blinking highlights? Why have such a large and glorious LCD but then
force us to view the postage stamp sized image with the light gray
slow blinks? This makes it tough for Canon's senior citizens
outdoors in the sun.
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mehigh said:
Hi dudes

I want to announce you that CHDK now supports canon SX10 :D

download from here http://mighty-hoernsche.de/
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Many Thanks!

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I have never worked with RAW files before. Would someone please explain how RAW works? That seems to be one of the major complaints, that the SX10 doesn't have RAW capability.

Thanks.
 
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RAW is not a standard image file format like a JPG. Instead, it's the unprocessed stream of data straight from the imaging sensor. It's uncompressed, unfiltered, and as the name indicates, raw. The nice part is that with post-processing applications, you can manipulate far more aspects of the image such as white balance, exposure, highlights, etc and issues such as noise are easier to correct in a raw file. With a JPG you have a compressed image, where much of the information has been thrown away in the process of conversion to a JPG. With raw, you have all the information from the sensor, and basically have more to work with.

The downside is that applications must support the particular camera's raw format, since there is no standard that Canon, Nikon, et al can agree on. When a new camera is released it only takes a couple of months until the major software companies add support.
 
I cannot get it to change the firmware. When they say to extract to the card do they just mean unzip to the card? I did this via my card reader and it loaded all files onto the card. I then start up my camera up in playback mode, hit set and disp but it shows the original firmware. What am I missing?

Thanks
mehigh said:
Hi dudes

I want to announce you that CHDK now supports canon SX10 :D

download from here http://mighty-hoernsche.de/

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So what happens when you download the file? Will you see an option in the menu, to shoot raw, where you would decide what type of jpg you want to shoot with?

If at some point you have problems with your camera, would this void the warranty?

Just was is CHDK? Does Canon support this? Why doesn't Canon make the upgrade themselves? Is this a good way to go for the less than computer savy person? Should I wait for the upgrade?

I want to...one of these days...make the leap into PP and working in raw. I have Photoshop Elements 6 for the MAC. I bought the SX10 even though it didn't have raw and am very happy with my choice. But now if it can do raw, that's all the better. I do want to learn, but finding the time is key.

Thanks for any advice.....Jane
 
You'll select RAW as a file capture type, such as basic, normal, fine, RAW in the menus.

CHDK shouldn't void the warranty as nothing is changed on the camera hardware itself. The CHDK program runs from the memory card at startup. Remove the memory card, all traces of CHDK disappear.

I find CHDK less user friendly than the built-in interface, since it is a text-based menu as opposed to the graphical environment built into the camera. There are also dozens of features that might be confusing. I use it on my SD400 and welcome the RAW ability as well as the battery life indicator, which the SD400 lacks.
Jane S said:
So what happens when you download the file? Will you see an option
in the menu, to shoot raw, where you would decide what type of jpg
you want to shoot with?
If at some point you have problems with your camera, would this void
the warranty?
Just was is CHDK? Does Canon support this? Why doesn't Canon make
the upgrade themselves? Is this a good way to go for the less than
computer savy person? Should I wait for the upgrade?

I want to...one of these days...make the leap into PP and working in
raw. I have Photoshop Elements 6 for the MAC. I bought the SX10
even though it didn't have raw and am very happy with my choice. But
now if it can do raw, that's all the better. I do want to learn, but
finding the time is key.

Thanks for any advice.....Jane
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Hey Guys,

This is great news having CHDK and I've already installed it and tried some things out.

I have a questions about the RAW though. It's saving the files as .CRW fine, but I can't find a single program to process it. I tried the software that came with the camera, but that won't work either.

Any recommendations for processing these .CRW files?

Thanks,

Mike

ps. I tried to use the .DRU file extension as an option on the CHDK menu, but it gave me an error message.
 
Yes those CRW files represent a format that isn't supported by the mainstream raw programs. Until now we had to use a program that converted them to DNG.

But now CHDK supports shooting directly in DNG format. To enable this you have to turn on flash on the camera and from the script menu select the script BAD.lua (i don't remeber the exact name). You then have to run this script on camera by simply pressing the shutter. This will make the camera take 2 pictures and compute the amount of bad pixels your sensor has (i have something in the range of 6000 - which is normal). This is needed for the cameraq because it must know the dead pixels so as to interpolate them out when it saves the raw (dng) file.

After you runned the badpixel script, from the raw menu you have to check save as raw and all the fields that reffer to DNG. DNG buffering field (i don't remember the exact name) will speed up the raw saving time.

Please all of you read the WIKI form the CHDK page, they explain there all the steps you have to do and if you have trouble, use the forums or try to log in to the IRC channel from the chdk download page. It is a java applet and you can do it directly from the browser. They will help you more than i can :)

Enjoy :D
mellinger said:
Hey Guys,

This is great news having CHDK and I've already installed it and
tried some things out.

I have a questions about the RAW though. It's saving the files as
.CRW fine, but I can't find a single program to process it. I tried
the software that came with the camera, but that won't work either.

Any recommendations for processing these .CRW files?

Thanks,

Mike

ps. I tried to use the .DRU file extension as an option on the CHDK
menu, but it gave me an error message.
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Wow,

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. It worked!

The only problem now is that I'm going to be spending way too much time working on photos, now that I have RAW.

Thanks again,

Mike
 
For what it's worth, Adobe's website on Photoshop CS4 (and Camera Raw) says that it supports CRW raw files.
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But it doesn't (or at least CS3 doesn't) accept the crw files produced by CHDK. The crw files must be converted to a dng format first - either in CHDK (which I haven't tried) or by using a program such as DNG4PS2. Conversion information is available on the CHDK Wiki
 
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