HTC Re - anyone else hacking?

[englishfil]

Cheap enough to experiment with I have a couple of these. One has its camera head removed waiting on a custom cable to remote it. The second has the window removed with the lens off so I can swap in new lens including a s-mount to c-mount adapter that ultimately means I can mate it to my older Nikon D lenses (no good on G lenses)

You need to be a bit brave with the Dremel to get at the Re - my guess is it was never meant to come apart once made. Both Res work fine with my iPhone, but I have found no equivalent Windows or MacOS app. Anyone else had any luck?

Also, anyone know where the switch is inside that determins rotation - HTC has made some pretty dumb limited assumptions on how this should function and I would like to alter it.

 

[Astute7]

Coming to this thread really late, but I'm interested to know more about your HTC Re hacking. I picked one up recently since they are super cheap on ebay now. I mostly wanted it as a convenient, weather-proof timelapse camera, but have also been using it a bit as a quick point and shoot. The photo quality is decent as long as the light is good.

I'm most interested in hacking the software side of things. The features that I think would make this camera more interesting are:

• A DNG raw mode
• Manual exposure
• Burst mode, especially with exposure bracketing

I feel like some of these should be achievable via updates to the app, but I'm sure HTC would no longer be providing updates for this ancient.

Are you (or anyone else out there) still tinkering with the Re?

 

[englishfil]

Project long gone - a modified and rehoused Re delivered to a customer as a POC. Another still in bits somewhere. Never found any software support from HTC or anyone else and frankly the world has moved on. It was good at fire sale prices, but would have needed much more support to establish itself as a useful product.