I’ve had my Canon S3 IS camera for awhile now, and it’s a brilliant camera with lots of nifty little things, and buttons and this and that. It turns out beautiful images, esp macros. I really like it, and I’m 100% happy with it.
Harrison has showed me CHKD which has made me even more happier with my camera. CHDK is a firmware enhancement that was turn my camera into something even more better. I can now play games on my camera, and run scripts that make beautiful HDR images so much easier. I used a script to take 25 photos on the teddy you see to your right, and patched it together using photomatix. It even tells me the percentage of battery I had, something which was an annoyance on the old firmware.
I really like the new firmware, however I’m sure they can find more fun things to do with the cameras.
The installation is really simple, find a card reader, plop the two files onto the card, re insert card, go into play mode, press the mode button, press firmware update, put your hands on your head, spin around three times yelling “IMAFAG” and flap your arms like a chicken.
It’s that simple.