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CHDK sky time lapse | canon sd780 / ixus 100

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:07:24 +0000

I always like to experiment a lot with my electronic gadgets. This time the term goes to my Canon SD780 (iXUS 100).

I dont know how i got in to this but finally landed in a page which said “Canon Hack development kit“, CHDK in short.

After a couple of struggle i finally managed to activate the CHDK firmware on my canon. It says firmware but this will not modify your existing firmware on the camera and can be deleted or removed simply by formatting your SD CARD using a PC/laptop.

The following time lapse is my second test using a intervalometer script from Andrew Hazelden’s Blog. (spend some time on his blog. he has a very good CHDK articles)

The youtube URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPc68D0h6E

Annular solar eclipse 2010, Chennai, India

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:49:03 +0000

Annular solar eclipse January 15, 2010. Location Chennai, India. All the photographs are captured on Canon IXUS 100 IS. I have tried many settings to capture the moment, but nothing worked out. I tried changing all the settings which is available in the camera, but one thing i forgot is to place a filter glass in front of the camera. Finally the moment captured from my Office sun glass window. At the time, the diamond ring is over

HP and VLC player on conflict

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:02:30 +0000

Chennai, India: The Biggest Computer system vendor HP (Hewlett Packard) reporting their laptop customers to not to use VLC Player.

VLC Player is the popular open source video player software among a lot of computer users. Recently HP laptop users facing a inbuilt speaker problem, which is often getting malfunction across the users. The official HP service center executives advicing the laptop users to stop using the VLC player to watch, play media files. They reporting that playing a media files using VLC Player causing the damage to the built in speakers.

As an additional information the official HP service center executives informing the customers bring the laptop to service for the build in speaker problem that , “the laptop will not cover under warranty if its identical that the diagonse report finds the user used the VLC player.”