Canon 40D hacked to record movies
- September 23rd, 2008
- 4 Comments
Feeling a little out of the DSLR movie-shooting crowd? Understandable since almost every DSLR announced within the last few weeks have had the new capability, but one chap hacked his Canon 40D so he wouldn’t feel so left out. The clip embedded above shows that in fact, he is recording live off the camera, not via the TV-out; here is a clip from the camera. Granted, you aren’t going to be shooting an HD commercial with the newfound ability, but for the occasional clip, it doesn’t seem so bad if he can work out the bugs.
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Jeff Lynch (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I suspect all he will accomplish is overheating his very expensive sensor and ruining his 40D for the work it was designed to do.
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Go Hackers! (Who am I?)
2 months ago
It’s great to see this hack implemented in the 40D!
Jeff, the sensor is designed to be used for extended periods of time like this. The 20Da had live view, but it had to have a “cool down” period, unlike the 40D, 50D, 1D3, and 5D2. It should be fine from a destroying your camera point of view.
Ajub jub (Who am I?)
2 months ago
A slomo biato como sock monster toto mo?
Collin (Who am I?)
2 months ago
“all he will accomplish is overheating his very expensive sensor and ruining his 40D for the work it was designed to do”
Jeff, this makes absolutely no sense to me. You realise movie mode is just recording down what the sensor is seeing via. Live View, right? It is nothing more than Live View with an extra feature which is sensor-independent.
I say good luck to this guy.