Hi everyone, I own FujiFilm Finepix s 8300 camera. I found this forum and this topic while I was looking for option how I could remotely control camera from computer so I could be able to make stop-motion animations in software for this purpose. Unfortunately I haven't found anything else. Thought I'm able to change things in Hidden menu makes me happy.
Like option to change Module (MODULE SELECT in hidden menu), since my camera is one from s8xxx series and each other camera is same except max zoom. I was just wondering that zoom is locked by software only and It seems I was right. By changing Module I'm able change my max zoom from 42x to 50x. I tried It and seems to be working.
But back to the topic:
I tried turn on Take12BitCCDRawImage, and i got RAW image. Im little confused why camera can't show RAW images in gallery since camera is showing photo preview after taking photo and saving.
Anyway Im able to view these RAW images by software IrfanView, but only monochrome. I don't know why. After open RAW file IrfanView shows me window with a lot of settings. I tried some sets but It was never better than monochrome output. Im not very experienced in this staff so maybe anyone of you will be more lucky than me.
Im adding photo how Irfanview shows RAW from my camera with this settings: 12BPP, Not normalized, Vertical flip, Image width 4608, height 3456, File header size 0. Bayer pattern is unchecked because if it is checked IrfanView shows decode error.
I hope this post help someone and i will be happy if anyone will find correct settings for view RAW files in IrfanView. PS: Sorry for ugly english
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EDIT:
I have now little problem. I was playing in Hidden Menu and I tried what is Vector Font. I haven't did it. It was trying to load font from SD card ../Fonts (i think, im not sure). I had not no font there and now after start up i can't see any text.... I wanted reupdate firmware but it shows me an error but i don't know what is written there...(maybe because same version?)
I will be very grateful if anyone write me order of Vector font item in menu so i could copy to card any vector font (i dont know what format of font yet, propably .ttf i hope
), and reload the font.
Thanks for any help.
EDIT 2:
I downloaded and opened in hexplorer firmware file for my camera. I found in it strings with Hidden Menu items(according to it seems to be "Load Vector Font" as 12. item), next i found name of folder where should font be copied ("Please check source path SD:\FONT") and formats of fonts and other file extensions (.FDL, .fdl, .BDF, .bdf, .DIF, .dif, .TTF, .ttf, .OTF, .otf, .TTC, .ttc, FDL ).
I tried to copy arial.ttf font from windows directory to SDcard:\FONT\FONT.ttf and blindly find Load Vector Font item in Hidden menu (it seemed to be trying to load font), but after restart camera i noticed no change (no text in menu) :/ I'm going to try more fonts, but I'm starting to lose hope.
EDIT 3:
After the try to load font i found in root of SDcard file CheckSourceErr.txt containing :
Check Source (1) ... (X)
UcsBIG5-DFHEI-W4-P-20101210.FDL
Any idea what it could represent?
EDIT 4:
I extracted strings from Font load process from firmware and got this :
B:\FONT%02d.raw %s : w=%d, h=%d
B:\bmp_info.txt %s %s Check Source (%x) ... (X)
B:\CheckSourceErr.txt
B:\CheckSourceErr.txt Check Source (X)
Please check source path SD:\FONT
Please check Errlog.. CheckSourceErr Check Source (O)
P2 Disk P2 already have font ! %s%s%s%s
Can not find data_%d from SD !
Write_FDL(%d)_To_ReservedArea=(X)
B:\ReservedErr.txt
B:\ReservedErr.txt
Write Check Flag to P1 R_Area ... OK!
Write data_%d to P1 R_Area ... OK!
Write CheckFlag to P2 section ... OK!
Write data_%d to P2 section ... OK!
Updating ....completely !
Take okEDIT 5:
I found in firmware file this :
B:\FONT
\D:\VectorFontCheckFlag.txt //My comments
UcsBIG5-DFHEI-W4-P-20101210.FDL //Trad. Chinese
UcsGB2312-DT-Hei-P.FDL //Simple Chinese
UcsJIS0208-UD-HEI_W4-P.FDL // Kanji - Japan
UcsKSC5601-P-Hei-P.FDL // Korean
UCS-CNS-THAI_HEI-s60-201003111529.FDL
UCS-CNS-Mideast.FDL
UCS-CNS-HEI_W4_SYMBOL.FDL
UCS-CNS-ICON_NEW-UCS-CNS.FDL
VectorFontCheckFlag.txt It seems like it controls if font support all needed character sets, if one missing Load Vector font fail.
I have now problem to find font what supports all these chars
I tried some fonts supporting BIG5, GB2312, JIS0208, KSC5601(DroidSansFallback.ttf, fonts from debian packages of size 10MB) but Error log shows same error still like i wrote up. :/ I found fonts of size 20MB+ but i dont believe in camera is so much space for install that font.
