The Warranty Question - Canon Camera Hackers Manual

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C H A P T E R 3
The Firm Update ... function of the
camera can be used to load and
activate the CHDK.
The CHDK submenu Miscellaneous.
The entry Make Card Bootable...
does exactly what it says.
Installing the CHDK
3. The distribution contains a file ver.req or vers.req. This allows you to
determine the real firmware version as described in section 3.2. If it
does not match your guess, download the correct version and unpack it
into your card.
4. Now you are ready to boot manually. Leave the camera in Playback
Mode and insert the card. Press
item ( Firm update...). Press FUNC/SET, select the OK button, and confirm
again with FUNC/SET. The CHDK is loaded and will soon show the
CHDK splash screen. It stays loaded until the camera is switched off.
Actually, no firmware upgrade was performed! The Firm update... func-
tion was just hitchhiked by the CHDK.
5. To enable the AUTORUN function, you must make your card bootable.
That can be done with the CHDK, too. Press the
lowed by the
Figure 3-4
laneous stuff
6. Switch the camera off, remove the card, and lock the card to enable
AUTORUN mode. Insert the card again and switch the camera on. CHDK
will now boot automatically each time the camera is switched on—
until you disengage the write protection lock.
Once you have installed the CHDK on your card, you should, as a matter of
fact, avoid formatting your card to get rid of images. Formatting would also
delete the CHDK and require a complete reinstallation. Instead, you have two
options for deleting obsolete pictures:
Use the camera's original delete functions to delete images. Switch the
f
camera to Playback Mode, press
delete by selection, by folder, or all images. There is a hitch: the camera will
Figure 3-5
only show JPEG images or folders containing JPEG images. RAW and DNG
images obtained through the CHDK (section 4.5) are not shown and not
deleted.
f
Use the file browser provided by the CHDK (section 4.10.1). Press
(chapter
Browser and navigate to the folder that you want to delete. Press
answer the prompt with Yes.
3.5

The warranty question

The big question for many camera owners is: what about the manufac-
turer's warranty when I install the CHDK in the camera? We don't think
that there should be a problem. The CHDK is installed on the memory card.
MENU key to invoke the CHDK menu. Navigate to Miscel-
> Make Card Bootable... and press FUNC/SET.
MENU,
4) followed by MENU. Then select Miscellaneous Stuff
MENU and navigate down to the last
ALT key
and select Erase... Then you can
(chapter 4) fol-
ALT
> File
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