Re: Why use raw?

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:26:44 -0500, jpc wrote:
: On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:01:02 -0400, Robert Coe <bob@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
: >Maybe, but it seems that any firmware installation is a risk. Recently Canon
: >issued an update for the Rebel XTi. I installed it on my XTi without incident
: >and waited a few weeks to make sure no unforeseen problems occurred. But when
: >I got around to upgrading my wife's XTi, it stopped at 37% complete and
: >couldn't be restarted. The cameras are less than a year old, and Canon fixed
: >it for us under warranty with no hassle (except for the obvious one of having
: >to send it to the repair facility in New Jersey). But I'll bet they wouldn't
: >have if what I'd been installing was a 3rd-party hack.
: >
:
: The hack doesn't work that way. The firmware is not touched. Instead
: you load some addition files on the camera's memory card and when you
: wish you can load them with an extra command in the camera's main
: menu. Then the standard script of the hack loads up additional
: commands into the camera's memory that frees up features like RAW mode
: that Canon decided not to implement for marketing reasons.
:
: It isn't that Canon P&S's don't have a raw mode--all digital cameras
: do. Canon just wants to force you to buy their more expensive DSLR
: cameras to use it.

That's a bit of an oversimplification. Both my G-5 and my wife's S50 support
RAW mode (without a hack).

: You can also write basic scripts that uses the standard firmware
: commands to expand implemented functions or to add new one's like the
: interactive DOF functions--something I find very useful for macro
: nature photography.
:
: However you use the hack, as soon as you turn off the camera the
: additional commands are gone. So if you need warranty repair, take out
: the memory card and sent the camera back. Since the firmware is
: untouched, Canon will never know you've done anything.
:
: Like I said, a very nice piece of work

Interesting. Thanks for the clarification. I think, though, that I'd find the
necessity of loading the hack onto each of my memory cards to be a bit
annoying. ;^)

Bob
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