I don't know if this is necessary or not, but thought I would throw together a short list of things pertaining to the SX1. I've gone through the thread, and seen this question asked several times.
This is a list of things that are working in the SX1, as well as things that fboesch and pev69 are looking into, as far as I can tell. Please let me know if I am posting in the wrong place. I am not a developer, but wanted to do something to help as I am very grateful to all who have put in the effort to get CHDK up and working on this camera.
First off is the main info from the SX1 wikia:
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/SX1The SX1 CHDK DOES NOT support the manual loading method through the "firmware update" mechanism !
With CHDK the camera always starts in playback mode; press (or half press) the Shutter once or just hold POWER for ~2 seconds for record mode
As on other newer cameras with 12 bit sensors, the 'Custom curves' feature do not work on the SX1
Due to the special display width (the standard grids are just made for a 320 pixel display), this camera needs modified Grids
When using MD scripts: mask out the outer area to prevent continuous shooting
1. Bad Pixel lua works
2. DNG works, on a Mac, Graphic Converter and the Gimp can read the DNG files, haven't tried anything with Windows, sorry.
3. Grids need to be modified, see post number 274, thanks to lucasflim, his link here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X54BAX43 , I also turned off auto rotate under Canon's tool menu, as someone else posted that this could cause problems with the display.
4. I have tried several ubasic and lua scripts, fast motion detection with the above mentioned masking, ultraintervalometer, all the test scripts, everything seems to be working well.
5. Bracketing in continuous mode works
6. Multi-partition support works
7. Disable overrides works
8. long exposures work
9. I haven't yet played with other types of bracketing, ie: focus etc, but assume right now that they work.
10. Have tried several overrides, seem to work.
11. usb remote is reported to be working
12. I had reported that my wireless remote that came with the camera wasn't working at one point, I see now that CHDK has some remote options, don't have my remote with me so cannot check this feature at present.
13. I am trying to report on what I have read, as well as what I have tried myself, it seems that CHDK is "95 %" working on the SX1
Some of the things not working:
1. When shooting continuously, camera can lock up?
2. See above on this page about trying to capture an image while filming a movie. (post 361 by chrisaal)
3. I believe I read about an issue with zebra, but I never had issues, I turned off the Canon Histogram because of screen drawing issues when I tried the histogram and zebra modes, seemed to take care of any issues for me.
4. filming stops quickly when filming high quality outdoors? I haven't played around too much with the video yet, having too much fun with pictures.
5. CHDK does not start with the firmware update method ( I know I'm repeating this, but the question keeps coming up in the thread!)
6. As above, custom curves don't work
I hope it is OK to post this here, to everyone who has put in time and effort on this porting, fboesch, pev69, reyalp, fe50, ewavr, PhyrePhoX, and everyone else who has tested or had input with the port, Thank you for all of your work!
Dan
