Re: [PLUG] (OT) MIT students snap near-space photos of the earth with $40 Canon A470

2009-09-25 Thread Pranav Peshwe
Talking of CHDK, it is an amazing software and another very appreciable community effort! Kudos to the creators! Not only was the software well written, but their documentation and wiki too was well maintained (when i'd tried it). It gave some extremely useful (and missing) features to my camera! E

Re: [PLUG] (OT) MIT students snap near-space photos of the earth with $40 Canon A470

2009-09-24 Thread Mandar Vaze
> By loading the A470 with the CHDK open source firmware add-on, the > students were able to implement an intervalometer script to allow the > While CHDK is very interesting concept, My camera doesn't support CHDK - it is too old (It is NOT DIGIC II) -Mandar __

[PLUG] (OT) MIT students snap near-space photos of the earth with $40 Canon A470

2009-09-24 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Wondering what to do with that old clunker of a digital camera you’ve got in your drawer? Try taking photos of space with it. Three enterprising MIT students have successfully launched and retrieved a digital camera in order to snap photos of the earth from the upper atmosphere — and they did it a