« Reply #2 on: 28 / May / 2013, 18:41:03 »
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/05/28/Samsung-releases-source-code-for-NX300-NX2000-mirrorless-cameras
Will be interesting to see what 'develops' 
Phil.
Very interesting. Sony has previously released source for their Linux based cameras, but AFAIK they all have a locked down bootloaders so you couldn't actually do anything interesting with it.
The dpreview article is making sounds like Samsung isn't taking this approach. Given their experience with android etc I wouldn't be surprised if they released something useable, but I don't see anything from Samsung confirming that.
If you follow the link to the Samsung site from DPReview, then click the Photography/Digital Cameras menu you get to a download page. There is a download for the source plus another for build / install instructions - which goes through the firmware update steps.
So it would appear you can replace the camera firmware with a custom version.
Not sure if there are limitations, or proprietary bits in there though.
Phil.
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CHDK ports:
sx30is (1.00c, 1.00h, 1.00l, 1.00n & 1.00p)
g12 (1.00c, 1.00e, 1.00f & 1.00g)
sx130is (1.01d & 1.01f)
ixus310hs (1.00a & 1.01a)
sx40hs (1.00d, 1.00g & 1.00i)
g1x (1.00e, 1.00f & 1.00g)
g5x (1.00c, 1.01a, 1.01b)
g7x2 (1.01a, 1.01b, 1.10b)
