Thanks for the great progress on the beta firmware!
My 100A D10 boots and runs CHDK, but:
a) there's continuous redraw flicker between the CHDK text & icons, and the D10's displayed items. It's better in Program mode (smaller icon), and after turning off all D10 display (except for the "P", of course). Are other people experiencing this?
If I've understood your description correctly, this is normal. CHDK display and canon display don't play well together. I suggest adjusting CHDK settings in playback mode where possible.
b) the CHDK text and menus all appear as dark blue. Is this usual? Is it easily changeable?
Menu colors can be adjusted in "visual settings" in the chdk menu, however, the color of a specific item will change depending on what the canon firmware does with the palette. Not much we can do about this.
On my camera, in playback mode the menus are white, in record mode they start medium gray, unless you go to auto mode, then they turn blue. I'll take a look into this and see if I can find a better color for the menu.
I also noticed "draw palette" crashed... another thing to look into.
c) After running Ultra Intervalometer several times, and taking about 20 photos, the D10 no longer powers up completely - it crashes(immediately shuts off after powerup) unless I un-write-protect the SD card. This may have something to do with the script parameters saved by CHDK, and that I have scripting set to autostart.
You mean you have script autostart set ? Removing your CHDK/CCHDK.CFG (using a card reader) will disable this setting and reset the selected script. This should allow the camera to boot.
If you can narrow down what triggers this, it would be very helpful.
A ROMLOG may also provide information, I've attached a build you can use to do this. It will be more useful to me to have a ROMLOG from a crash with this build, because I have the corresponding debug files.
You can try placing the diskboot.bin from this build on your card before removing the CCHDK.CFG, and try to boot. If it crashes, remove the CCHDK.CFG, boot CHDK, then get the ROMLOG.
Use romlog.lua to get the ROMLOG. See
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Lua/Scripts:Standard/Test/Romlogd) Assuming that (c) can be fixed or worked around, is it possible to turn off and leave off the LCD display in the D10? For tripod-mounted intervalometry, there's no need for the display at all.
Not sure about this. You can set the screen off timeout very short.
If you require the camera to be waterproof, plugging in the A/V adapter will turn off the display, but this doesn't save much power.
e) Is it possible to disable focusing, or lock focusing? There's no need for it during interval shooting.
Thanks again.
If your subject is distant, just use the 'focus at infinity' mode. If it's closer, you can use af lock (described in the canon manual), or manual focus. You should also be able to use CHDK subject distance override, but I think in autofocus mode the camera will do the AF scan anyway. I'm also not sure SD override is working properly.
FWIW, On many cameras, manual focus mode consumes noticeably more power than AF. I haven't tested on D10.
