Take that Nikon!…facebook on the Canon 5d mkII.
Written by David WhiteI posted here a few days ago about the incongruous addition of space invaders on the Nikon D3X.
Not to be outdone, Canon fans have been working hard on providing something equally useful/useless on the 5dmkII. Over on his technoblog, camhackerrzz has reverse engineered Canon’s wireless ftp file transmitter (WFT-E4) using the CHDK protocols to provide internet access for the camera. How that is useful, I’m not sure…but I imagine it could be…one of the first uses camhackerzz has used it for is facebook. Not my first choice, but then I’m not a fan of telling everyone what I’m up to all day long. Where will this end? Twitter on your compact? Ebay on your Phase One? Whatever..it’s a brave new world. I’m not sure the screen on the camera is really up to the job of tiny font sizes..but in a pinch I suppose it could work…you can apparently move around the browser window with the scroll wheel. Give it 2 years and all cameras will be able to go online.
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Canon 5d MKII with online access.
Discussion (6 Comments)
shit duckrabbit, I followed the instructions, downloaded the software and set it to FACEBOOK mode but all the brick will do now is stream re-runs of the Dukes Of Hazard.
PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
WTF? I did the same and now my camera is streaming JAWS. Is this some kind of joke by Nikon?
God…I hadn’t thought that it might be a dastardly move by Nikon….that makes sense….having said that, watching the Dukes of Hazard doesn’t sound too bad…..but…BE CAREFUL PEOPLE…..hack at your own risk….who knows where this could lead..
Dya reckon I could get space odyssey 2001 to play? I heard Kubrick used a mkII for that….
I want to download skype in the camera so I can talk to my friends while taking pictures, do you reckon this is possible?
my canon g9 doubles up as a handy cricket bat. while twittering and streaming obscure radiohead covers.
Is this some kind of joke? If so it’s not funny … I just spent two days trying to get Facebook on my Nikon!