Upgrade/Hack (Oprek) Firmware Canon S5IS (Indonesian link bottom of this page)

Canon S5IS is my main camera from nowadays. Because my main camera before: Olympus E500 have been take over by my wife (she works as a photographer in semarang art council). S5IS is practical camera, with a lot of function and feature. We can shoot both picture and movie, and have nice optical zoom too (12x) equivalent to near 400mm.



Now, i'm not tell about the benefits of S5IS. I want to tell about how to upgrade or hack firmware Canon S5IS. From the old firmware 1.0.1.xxxx to a new one.
The benefit of new firmware are:
1. The battery life indicator in all time. In old firmware u can't see the indicator when u take a shoot until it near to void. In other word, indicator to warn that your battery become empty.
2. RAW. Yes! u can shoot a raw in S5IS with the new firmware. We know that the old firmware can't support raw shooting.
3. Optimize Speed Shutter. U can adjusted speed up to 1/8000 and low as...(sorry i'm forget).
4. A lot of stuff and game (u can see sokoban, and other game..actually it's no use for me but cool one)

OK.. lets go Rock
1. Prepare your memory card, you can use any of brand and size. I use sandisk 1 GB.
2. But remember to save all of image that u captured before to harddisk, because you got to format your card.
3. Download the CardTrick program. See the information on http://chdk .wikia.com/wiki/CardTricks, the download link is in the middle of that page.
4. Format your card with cardtrick and make to bootable.

"Take Your Attention abot the important five button of Cardtricks; SELECT, FORMAT AS..,MAKE A BOOTABLE, DOWNLOAD CHDK and CHDK->Card"

5. You can download the firmware CHDK-s5is-101a-0.8.9-632 and click
6. And this is important thing! Lock the Card, with little knob in right/left side.
7. Put your card to S5IS, and turn on your camera in View Mode.
8. Press the S button in top left side of your camera. It's 'Alt Mode' and press the Menu button in right side.
9. You see a text menu, u can adjust to scope your need.

With this method of upgrade, u didnt change the original firmware of your camera. Because the new firmware installed on your card, and activated if u use that card (only that card). It like 'a guest application' to your system Camera.
And the important is...the hack is Safe! and can't make your camera broken! (IMHO)

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More information about advantages of upgrading is on the Hackday