Photography - Cannon EOS 300D owners

"Don B" wrote in message
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An article in the latest PCWorld magazine tells how to turn your 300D into
a 10D

find.pcworld.com/46444

No, it does not tell you how to turn your 300D into a 10D.

What it does do is point you towards a page that contains a hacked version
of the camera firmware, this hacked version is commonly called the 'Wasia
hack'. A Google search using Wasia and Hack will yield scores of hits.
There is even a Yahoo group for those interested in hacking the 300D (and
other digital cameras).
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canondigicamhacking/

This hacked firmware does turn back on some of the features of the 300D that
are not active in the Canon firmware. In a few cases there are reasons that
the original Canon firmware does not allow access to these functions,
because they will not work well in the 300D, in other cases the turned on
functions work fine.

What it allows is outlined he
http://satinfo.narod.ru/en/index.html

However, to turn a 300D into a 10D would require more than just turning on a
few dumbed down features.

The 10D is much better built than the 300D. This is probably the largest
part of the price difference between the two cameras. The 10D has a much
larger buffer for continuous shooting. The 10D shutter is rated for more
than twice the life of the 300D. And, the sensor between the 300D and the
10D is different. Exactly what these differences are Canon is not saying,
but they are measurably different and they carry a different part number.

Although the majority of the Wasia Hack users are very happy, there have
been a couple of reported failures to the camera after installing the hacked
firmware. Most people have reported that you could simply reinstall the
factory firmware to fix this, but a few have reported that the camera had to
go back to the manufacturer to be repaired...and using the hack will void
the warrenty.

C!