Hi,
my name is Giancarlo and this is my first post here. I just bought a Fujifilm Finepix s2700HD and was utterly disappointed by the limitated-on-purpose software accompanying an otherwise great camera. So i started digging for solutions.
Now: i know that you're not so interested in starting development of a whole new hack kit for fujifilm from scratch, but luckily
i'm a professional developer that sometimes does lo-level for fun, so
i offer myself to experiment a little bit if proper starting directions are given.
There are many reasons to help me doing this:
1) Finepix hardware is good and they're probably the cheapest cameras on the market among the bridge category
2)
the exact same firmware is often shared across a great number of different camera models (e.g. the firmware for my camera is directly installable in the following models: S2500HD / S2550HD / S2600HD / S2700HD / S1800 / S1850 / S1880 / S1900 / S1600 / S1700 / S1730 / S1770 / S1780), so great compatibility could possibly be achieved with little effort
3) I already downloaded a firmware update and looked inside it with an hex editor and
found lots of references to scripts with .srt extension that
contain basic like commands (yes,
the file doesn't appear to be encrypted)
4) i'm not so mad to desire a whole new firmware... for me, just an hack to be able to save RAW data would be a great improvement to start with
So, if someone wants to take a look, the firmware update file is dowloadable here (
http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/software/firmware/s/finepix_s2500hd/fupd.html ) after conditions somewhere in the middle of the page are accepted. Don't be fooled: only the DAT file is needed.
Any advice? For instance... is that DAT file only containing the new firmware to be written by the exsisting camera software, or it is the executable that actively flashes the internal memory? can you recognize a structure usually connected with a certain architecture in the photography world? Is the starting magic number "RHIR" helping any of you recognizing the format? Wich tools can i use to extract/disassemble?
Many thanks in advance.