Many thanks ! after a bit more brain work than usual..your posts..following links I found out what 'cardtricks' was all about (for a time I thought it was a windows 'game'!!) eventually I formatted a 4GB card with 'fat16' , transferred the two zip files onto the card ,made it bootable ,lockced it and it now autostarts in the camera (sx1) it took some time also to work out out which buttons would bring up the 'alt' menu. Great!!
I greatly appreciate the work of those developers who create the CHDK etc. I regret not being able to assist there.
I can think of how it could work event better from the photographers point of view...but what I can imagine may be either impossible or just a plain nightmre for developers. i.e For the exposure 'meter' in manual mode to show the exposure including the modified slower speed for example.
Once again, Thank you (and others who have helped) I still have a lot to try out with it..for example Raw files as DNG instead of CRW.
Clivek
