Canon EOS DSLR’s hacked to record video
Just read an article on Engadget about a russian guy who managed to hack his Canon 40D (same model I have) to shoot video. Pretty sweet. I wonder how risky it is. I may have to give it a try.
Original Piece from Engadget:
If you’re just now starting to come to grips with the fact that Canon’s utterly succulent EOS 5D Mark II is just way, way out of reach, here’s a little something to lessen the impact of your inferiority complex. An enterprising young buck with a passion to bring video capture abilities to other EOS cameras figured out a way to enable that very capability on all Liveview EOS DSLRs. Of course, there’s still the whole “manual focus” requirement — which means that the bulk of your captures will be way out of focus — but it’s a new feature for your existing camera nonetheless. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, why don’t you just push out an official update to add this into more cams, Canon? We mean, can you imagine the look on Nikon’s face if you really came through?
I was about to ditch my camera and get a canon until I read the part about no auto focus. That makes it pretty worthless. I tried taking pics without auto focus and it was a disaster.
Diego
January 27, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Yup. I also found out that it needs to be plugged in to your computer via USB cable the entire time you are shooting video. SO FORGET IT! Still a cool hack and perhaps he’ll find a way to get it to save to the memory card and figure out the focus issue.
gabelopez
January 28, 2009 at 12:02 am