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CHDK Research On TL350 and EX1

Started Mar 19, 2012 | Discussions
snake_b Veteran Member • Posts: 4,680
CHDK Research On TL350 and EX1

Looks like we all missed this one:
http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php?topic=6834.0

No idea on how far this has progressed, if at all:

I know there are others who have expressed the wish for hackable firmware for these Samsung cameras. If you read this and feel you can help, reply here or send me a PM. With their ARM-based ASICs and VXWorks OS it should be possible to get (something like) CHDK running on these cameras. Given the ease with which the user interface in these cameras seems to be modifiable it might even be possible to integrate a firmware hack in a more streamlined way. Who knows, Samsung might just have created the ideal hackable camera platform - and might see increased sales because of this. Are you reading this, Samsung? If so, please send me some documentation on the firmware file format so I don't have to search for it myself.

Samsung TL350 (WB2000) Samsung TL500 (EX1)
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kennethfong Regular Member • Posts: 131
Re: CHDK Research On TL350 and EX1

If this progress is seeing some daylight, it'll b the greatest day of my life, we need a hacked firmware which can be customized according to our needs.. E.g exposure time in bulb can extend beyond mere 4 mins. it'll also be great to have access to nx200's service manuals need to know someway or another to link remote shutter ctrl...

thielges
thielges Contributing Member • Posts: 661
Re: CHDK Research On TL350 and EX1

Thanks for the heads-up on this project. I hope that there's success. Unfortunately I don't have the time to participate in the initial crack but once there's some semblance of an SDK available for the EX1 software then I'm motivated to spend some time to fix some of the software problems that have been annoying me.

What would be really cool would be for Samsung to make their SDK available to the public and perhaps even release the source code. But I'll bet that their upper management and/or legal council will interfere.

OP snake_b Veteran Member • Posts: 4,680
Re: CHDK Research On TL350 and EX1

It would be a dream to see CHDK show up on the Ex1 and see what potential the cam had that was not tapped into. I suspect there is significant potential there we aren't seeing.

tecnoworld
tecnoworld Veteran Member • Posts: 7,232
Re: CHDK Research On TL350 and EX1

That would be great, both for EX1 and for NX10, 100 and 200.

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