Chieh Cheng’s Camera Hacker is a site featuring technical articles and tips, as well as the Camera Hacker’s Hacking Digital Cameras book. If you are a computer techie and into hacking up computer and digital parts and pieces, including cameras, you’ll find plenty to keep you busy there.
Highlighted tips, tricks and techniques for understanding and hacking digital cameras include:
- Accessing Memory Stick Duo Directly in a Memory Stick Reader
- Best Digital Hacks of 2004
- Best Digital Hacks of 2005
- Building a Bicycle Camera Mount
- Building a Car Camera Mount
- Dissecting SmartMedia
- Disabling the auto-focus assist light
- Hacking Lenmar Mach 1 Speed Charger
- How to extend the Canon RS-60E3 remote switch?
- How to multiple expose with an APS camera
- How to multiple expose with any 35mm camera
- How to re-use Kodak MAX One-Time-Use disposable camera?
- How to re-use Polaroid instant PopShot camera?
- How to roll the film out of an APS film cartridge
- Inside the FujiFilm QuickSnap Outdoor
- Making a Pinhole Lens for SLR Cameras
- Mid-Roll Change with any 35mm camera
- Mid-Roll Rewind vs. Mid-Roll Change
- Mirror lock-up in night exposure using a camera without the mirror lock-up feature
- Modify the CompactFlash Type I PCMCIA Adapter to work with the Microdrive
- Stacking Teleconverters
- Universal remote with Canon cameras
- Using auto teleconverters and auto extension tubes with manual lenses