Hacker Makes Canon EOS 40D Record Video

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It's all been about the EOS 5D Mark II and Nikon's D90 HD video recording options for the last few weeks, but owners of the Canon EOS 40D will be interested in this hack which lets the DSLR record video. And here's the video proof for that. The hack involves coding new software that locks up the mirror, which denies the camera the ability to autofocus... but the results speak for themselves. Sure, it's not a HD video output, but it's damn neat. [Project via Crunchgear]

http://gizmodo.com/5054003/hacker-makes-canon-eos-40d-record-video

[ziggy53]

Interesting catch.

Hmmm ... I wonder if ...

It looks like it might be implemented using the CHDK approach, but it looks to be some time before usable code.

They (the community of coders) are also working on AF microfocus for the 40D.

[Michiel de Brieder]

Hey there,

To those interested:

a Dutch 'tweaker' created a hack to be placed on a CF card that enables you to use live view on a Canon EOS 40D to capture a movie :)
here's the video he made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlKywUVFJW4
It's still in a beta version so he's not distributing it yet.

Michiel

P.S. of you think the accent is funny, that may be right, the guy is Dutch and I have a feeling he's from the The Hague area which lends his english this certain accent :D

[EarthDog]

Hey there,

a Dutch 'tweaker' created a hack to be placed on a CF card that enables you to use live view on a Canon EOS 40D to capture a movie :)
here's the video he made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlKywUVFJW4
It's still in a beta version so he's not distributing it yet.

Those videos (it's one of several) seem to be disappearing from YouTube. Not sure why. The one I was able to see wasn't terribly impressive, or even convincing.

But, if he really did figure out how to do that, that's quite impressive hacking.