IXUS 100 IS (Europe) / PowerShot SD780 IS - Porting Thread

fe50

jmy88
I do not see those.. at which point should they appear?

...it should appear when you switch the camera to continuous or timer mode.

"Counter" in the top right corner:
With the default configuration the time (clock) is visible in the top right, after half-pressing the shutter the OSD shows the seconds...
(CHDK menu: [tt] [OSD parameters] - [Clock] - [@shutter half-press show]: Seconds [/tt])

kiserian

Im having the exact same problem, I dont see any of that on my OSD when in normal mode, half press, or full press. I have played with several scripts also trying to get any sort of bracketing but no luck. Except manually changing the exposure. But that is taking too long and i am getting too much movement of subjects in between exposures. If i have to wait till a full or beta version thats no problem.
Thanks everyone for all your hard work

jmy88

Hmm it does not come up when I switch to continuous or timer mode.. is there anything you can think of that I may be doing wrong or any other setting that may be interfering with it and preventing the bracketing feature from working?

Benoe

jmy88
I do not see those.. at which point should they appear?

Maybe the osd functions are not enabled by default. You can enable each osd functions somewhere in the menu.

BTW around when could this built goes to automake server?

WhoDat

Thanks! I have the pre-alpha code running on my camera. I notice post #1 says the USB stuff is incomplete. I'd like to experiment with this, esp. remote shutter triggering, as well as trying some scripts (intervalometer of course). How do I make my own versions of diskboot.bin and ps.if2 to test out my changes? Do you have any testing requests I can do in exchange?

srunyon1

Ok I've been testing 1.82 for some time now..
I have a lot of problems getting the camera to start and shutdown properly.
I can run scripts. At least the ultra Intervalometer seems to run.
I can get the histogram on my Screen but no other OSD's
I can not read the RAW files it is creating. I have no problems reading RAW files from my EOS..
with video I can use my zoom and it seems to work..
My camera shuts down often just goes black.
I've been playing with the usb control.. My guess is It just uses a simple switch and I'm trying to use a real canon camera switch and that wont work.
I've had no luck with Bracketing at all.
Shutter override seems to work.
is there a working file without the Stereo stuff ?
Thanks to all the great work!!!

Microfunguy

srunyon1
is there a working file without the Stereo stuff ?

I assume that you are not saying these problems exist with the SDM version referred to ?

USB switch, edge outline, histograms, bracketing, zebra, etc all work.

dlparis

Hi people,

I've been doing some tests with pre-alpha v8 chdk and 1.82 SDM versions

pre-alpha v8:

- I can't make the histogram works. Even I checked it to be displayed, it doesn't appear.
- I tried to override the shutter speed but it doesn't work.
- Sometimes, "alt icon" in the display appears like a white square, the word "alt" can't be read.
- As other testers have already said. Whole or a part of the menu sometimes dissapears..

SDM 1.82:

More or less I've the same problems that @srunyon1 have detected.
- It's really complicated to shutdown the camera. Sometimes goes black, but it doesn't shutdown. If you push on/off botton again, sometimes the camera shutdowns, and sometimes it turns on again.
- If I turn on the camera in AUTO mode, I can't switch it to manual or video mode. If I start the camera in P or in video mode, it switchs from one mode to others without problems.
- If I use the zoom in video mode, once I pass from optical to digital zoom I can't get back to optical zoom control. The zoom stucks in the limit from digital to optical and I can't get back to zero zoom.
- Finally. I cant make the play mode works. After take a picture, I cant watch it on the display. Pushing the play button makes the camera goes black.

One more question. It is not possible to override the aperture in this camera? or it hasn't been ported yet?

Hope my tests be useful for you.

Thank you for the excellent work you're developping!!!

whim

It is not possible to override the aperture in this camera? or it hasn't been ported yet?

Can't override aperture on any ixus camera - they don't have an adjustable aperture, just a N(eutral)D(ensity) filter.

hth,

wim

Microfunguy

dlparis
SDM 1.82:
More or less I've the same problems that @srunyon1 have detected.

That version has been tested by a number of people before being released.

I can you list some problems that can be consistently reproduced and I will ask others to try them ?

fvdk

dlparis
Hi people,

I've been doing some tests with pre-alpha v8 chdk and 1.82 SDM versions

SDM 1.82:

More or less I've the same problems that @srunyon1 have detected.

Have you read the message on the SDM download page:

NOTE:The IXUS100, IXUS980 and SX200IS do not use the standard CFG file, they use a file with a numeric value after 'CFG'.
These must be copied to the card manually and should not be renamed. Use the files supplied in the CONFIGS folder.

I have no problems with my IXUS100

Frans

fvdk

srunyon1
Ok I've been testing 1.82 for some time now..

I can not read the RAW files it is creating. I have no problems reading RAW files from my EOS..

https://chdk.setepontos.com/d/1532

I've been playing with the usb control.. My guess is It just uses a simple switch and I'm trying to use a real canon camera switch and that wont work.

That's right, real Canon remotes don't work. You will need a simple homemade USB switch.

is there a working file without the Stereo stuff ?

No, just the pre-alpha version. HarpoMa posted his last message weeks ago, no idea if he is still working on a stable release.

Frans

dlparis

Thank you fvdk. That was the point, I didn't read the message from sdm's forum. It's my fault, I had only followed the instructions given in chdk's forum about replace diskboot.bin. After copy the new configuration file, everything looks much better. If I find any bugs I'll report them as soon as possible. Thank you again.

Microfunguy

dlparis
Thank you fvdk.

I might add that Frans sells (very cheaply) a very neat, tiny USB switch :-

https://chdk.setepontos.com/d/3631/1

I use it all the time.

David

jmy88

jmy88
Hello fe50, thanks for your response

I do not see those.. at which point should they appear?

All I do is go into Extra Photo Operations and turn on exposure bracketing in continuous mode at 1EV type +/- then turn my camera on continous shot and hold down the shutter to take numerous photos (at this point there is a yellow number that counts up in the top right corner, but no text like you mentioned appears).. but when I look at my photos afterwards they all have the same exposure setting as if bracketing is still not on. Any ideas?

..is anyone aware of any possible fixes or reasons this bracketing may not be working? I had originally thought this may just be a problem everyone is having with this pre-alpha chdk but according to the first post and others here it appears that bracketing in continous mode actually does work for others both manually and with self-timer.. anyone have any insight as to how I may be able to get mine working?
Thanks again 😁

Microfunguy

I managed to compile the original source files, after some effort.

After successfully porting to SDM I deleted all of those files.

If you want, we can try going through the compilation process again and I can probably remember how to fix most things.

The first errors were in boot.c.

If you do try this, just post the first compiler errors that you get and we can work through them one-by-one.

WhoDat

[/quote]

Have you read the message on the SDM download page:

NOTE:The IXUS100, IXUS980 and SX200IS do not use the standard CFG file, they use a file with a numeric value after 'CFG'.
These must be copied to the card manually and should not be renamed. Use the files supplied in the CONFIGS folder.

I have no problems with my IXUS100

Frans
[/quote]

I copied CHDK.CFG5 L, LH, and R versions to the SDMINSTE.EXE folder, then used the SDM installer to write CHDK.CFG5 to the SD card (left camera), and had the same problems as srunyon1 and dlparis. A manual copy of the CFG5 file from the ixus_100\R folder seems to have solved the problem.

Microfunguy

The SDM installer only knows about the normal CFG files, it does not know about these new ones.

Hence the need to manually copy them.

reyalp

fvdk
NOTE:The IXUS100, IXUS980 and SX200IS do not use the standard CFG file, they use a file with a numeric value after 'CFG'.
These must be copied to the card manually and should not be renamed. Use the files supplied in the CONFIGS folder.

I don't see how this would be true of the SX200, since it uses the same conf.c as the trunk with no special ifdefs that I can see ? I know for a fact it isn't true of the ixus 980, since I did that port. Perhaps you mean the SD980 (ixus200) ?

In any case, this is a terrible idea, and if some ports work this way it is wrong and they should be fixed.

Also, dryos cams have some issues with long file names, so even if they were to use different CFG file names (which they shouldn't) they shouldn't use this particular pattern.

OldGit

reyalp
I don't see how this would be true of the SX200, since it uses the same conf.c as the trunk with no special ifdefs that I can see ?

@reyalp,
you are correct, the sx200 uses the "standard" file name ( CCHDK.CFG )
Well it does on mine anyway (trunk 866).
OldGit

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