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bravocars1 · Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: Camera software

Well ive heard that you can flash your camera with some other software to open up other options in your menus. Now i know that this would void your warrenty but once its out of warrenty it could be worth the go. I have seen some of the older canon dslr that can not be switched to do black and white and heard that you can flash it to open that. But what i was wondering was if i could flash my 400d so that i can adjust the K factor in white balance. i know you can adjust the figure on say the 40d but was wondering if you can open it up on the 400d.

jonH · Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:48 pm Post subject:

Can't help you with the firmware question, but of course if you shoot raw, you can fix your balance (and even do it for several photos at once) as you load the shots into your raw processor of choice
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peteski · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:41 am Post subject:

I'd be wary of updating your firmware to that of a non-standard one for your camera.

I'd stick to shooting RAW as jonH suggests and correcting in software.
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bravocars1 · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:58 am Post subject:

yes this is what i was thinking of doing. But i have no experience of editiing with Raw. How does it all work?