Canon eos 350d firmware hack manual#
Basically my questions have to do with the use of old manual lenses on digital DSLR. Great Hack! You seem to be the right person to pose my question regarding the communication bus. We need to access the front face of the camera where we need few soldering job to do. (Photo 6) Now you exposed the mainboard of your camera. This releases pressure on the ribbon cable and the cable can be pulled out with the rubber tipped pliers. Lift these two tabs upward with a small flathead jewelers screwdriver and the black hinge will rotate upwards into a vertical position. There are two small black hinge tabs at each end of the connector. The connector is color white and its hinge is black. Instead, the connector is a "hinged type". The ribbon cable does not just pull out of its connector. You have to remove that from the mainboard. Now remove the rear panel by doing the rest: 2- Remove grey plug on back of camera that covers a screw and remove the screw (Photo 1) 3- Remove three screws at bottom of camera (Photo 2) 4- Remove two screws under CF compartment cover (Photo 3) 5- Remove two screws on the black rubber panel (where you have ports - Photo 4) 6- Remove the black rubbery black panel and rubber port cover by popping it out from the bottom edge using a sharp knife (Photo 5) 7- Now you can gently take the rear cover out but be careful there is a flat ribbon cable connecting the LCD and the buttons on it to the mainboard. 1- Take out the strap, battery, rubber eye cup and CF card, put a body cap on to keep your mirror box clean. This is not very hard, you just have to play by rules and follow several steps. However, we don't have to deal with the mainboard, so don't strip your camera to barebones like he did. Check out his site for an alternative take on disassembling. REFERENCE: There are few places where I borrowed wording from Gary Honis's excellent instructions on Canon EOS 300D IR filter removal. I am not responsible for any of these above if you experience a problem. This hack may render your camera totally useless, so if you brick it don't blame me, but put it on ebay for parts (others will like this). Also involves exposing flash circuitry, if you are careless you may experience a high-voltage electric shock even when the battery is out (which I did briefly). DISCLAIMER: Like all other hacks, this will void your warranty (I don't know if there are any 300D left with warranty anyway). AF confirm chip is a tiny pic chip and can be affected from static discharge easily, so be careful while you are working with it.
There are live circuitry in it and you may accidentally short it - burning out some fuses (I'll write another instructable about fixing those, later). You need: - One AF confirm activating chip for Canon EF mount (ebay keywords: Canon AF confirm chip) - A tiny switch (if you want disabling functionality) - Thin wires - Epoxy (optional) - Philips 0 and flat screwdriver - Soldering iron and solder - Self adhesive tape/ribbon Do not put the battery in the camera when it is disassembled, even if you have it in off position. This hack requires some disassembling and soldering skills.
In this hack we'll permanently embed one of these PIC chips in the camera.
Canon eos 350d firmware hack cracked#
Some clever chaps cracked the code and embedded it in a tiny PIC chip and slapped those on Canon EF adapters for manual lenses. The lens communicates its focal length and aperture values and the camera activates AF after confirming these. However, Canon EOS auto-focus system needs a lens to speak to itself to work. These are vastly available on the net for purchase (ebay).
Canon EF mount has a register distance which lets us use Olympus OM, Pentax M42 and K-mounts, Leica R, and Contax mounts with proper adapter rings. For those cameras that are not fully supported the colors may be wrong as displayed in RGB-render mode, also the width of the masked zone can be off etc.Well, right, you can do this easily by using various chipped adapters for several lens mounts - but how about permanently modifying your camera to do the same and avoid paying extra for multiple adapters? I love my 300D but I don't own any EF/S lenses, all my arsenal is from 1980s, gorgeous manual focus lenses from Olympus and Carl Zeiss. RawDigger can operate with some other cameras that are not yet listed however we can't guarantee that the results will be accurate. For the list of supported cameras please see below.