Hello everybody
my camera uses the firmware 1.02b and so i am one of the lucky people
who can use the CHDK Beta 1.02b with a 8GB card and two partitions.
Thank you ACID2000 and all others who helped for the realy great CHDK Beta 1.02b.
This is the first time i use CDHK and so i studied the "User Quick Start Guide V.1.8.0".
Great features.
Theire are only a view points i miss or don't know how to handle:
1) Normaly i use Windows and so its realy annoying to swap always the partitions and lock/unlock the card. I checked with linux (ubuntu), this works realy nice because you have access to both partitions whithout swapping.
By reading the manual i found two solutions for this (Windows) problem:
a) transfer the pictures over USB
b) using the swap mechanism of the camera itself
->a) works fine with jpg, but i can't transfer dng.
In the manual on page 46 are a menupoint "DNG visible via USB" but i can't find it in the beta version. Not implemented yet?
In RAW-options are the possibility for renaming CRW or SND Files to a transferable format (for example jpg). But i have no program which could read this format.
->b) Swap the partition in the camera and read the card in the computer. That's ok.
Put the card back into the camera (active partition is win32 and has no autoboot). Start the CHDK manualy and swap back the partition.
How could i start CHDK manualy? Do i need a PS.FIR file? How can i get this file?
2) For reading dng y use "RAW-Therapee" and "UF-Raw".
About 50% of my dng-files are not readable with this programs.
Is this a problem of written dng or the two programs i use?
For "Bad pixel removal" i use RAWconv and no "RAW buffer cached"... OK?
3) I have reboots with the camera. Reboots means: The camera is not operable, after a timeout i hear a "klick" and the camera reboots and starts up again. Most i have this problem when pressed half shutter. Is this a known error? Or a configuration problem (i have changed a lot of options
)?
Is there a way to write crash-dumps?
4) Feature "auto DR" (page 20) is not implemented yet. Because the 12bit Sensor? SX20 has a 12bit Sensor?
5) "Use zoom buttons for MF" (page 43) is not implemented yet.
6) With activated MF and then pressed <ALT> the cursor-buttons and zoom have no function (page 6).
Next i will try IR-remote handling and some of the posted scripts by SkyWalker9.
Bye, Frank
I hope you understand my poor english. Sorry.