Category: photography

“Wasia v1.1.1 b7.1 Firmware Hack”

Yet another update to the famous 300D Firmware Hack has been released today. Mostly cosmetic changes such as LED texts to indicate what the setting you’re messing with (e.g. FEC, AF mode). There are also a few additions worth mentioning.

No news on the AI-Servo yet though. I hear it would be easier to program a game into the firmware than to get that blasted AI-Servo working the way you want.

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“Canon EOS 300D / Digital Rebel”

“Canon EOS 10D”

“WASIA v1.1.1 b7 Firmware Hack”

I’m sooooo glad I got the EOS 300D, as I’ve just applied a firmware hack that brought to life some “dormant” features the manufacturers intentionally disabled to bring the price of the unit down.

Its been widely known that the Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel and the Canon EOS 10D DSLR’s are similar beasts. In fact, if you look at their Side-by-side comparisons you can see that most of the features that vary are catagorized as “Customizable”.

The 10D has a menu item called “Custom Functions” which allows these settings to be adjusted. Well, a fellow in Russia found that in the latest firmware, by switching a single byte in the firmware image, he was able to enable most of these 10D “Custom Functions” in the Digital Rebel. Now, some features, such as more frames in rapid shooting, are hardware-limitations but some features lacking such as Flash Exposure Compensation and embedded JPEG quality are found to be working in the 300D.

Now I dare say that it is extremely close to performing like its big brother, the EOS 10D, which is about double the price. Well performing is probably stretching it, maybe delivering is a better term.

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