nikon hacker chat log

<illwieckz> they have a tool to patch some nikon firmware to unlock some stuff (like enabling lossless raw, removing video timelimit) or to disable some behavior (denoising)
<illwieckz> badly this tool only run on silverlight in a browser (but the ESR version of firefox in wine, with silverlight, does the trick)
<illwieckz> unlike magic lantern, they can't load complete software from memory card, so the tool flips some bits in firmware, then you make a firmware update with the modified firmware
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<LebedevRI> does that result in the menu "compression" just appearing, like on d7000?
<paperdigits[m]> illwieckz: thanks for the link
<illwieckz> LebedevRI, no, you have to patch your firmware for every change
<illwieckz> so I made a firmware collection, one original, one with lossless enabled, one with compression disabled
<illwieckz> they started to make some menu hacks with the "true-dark-current" one
<illwieckz> but they are just reusing another menu
<illwieckz> for the "true-dark-current" hack, they take over the colorspace menu from "sRGB/AdobeRGB" to be a "Normal/TrueDark" raw
<illwieckz> unlike Magic Lantern, that's very basic
<illwieckz> they can't modify the GUI
<illwieckz> for the video bitrate hack, usually they set the higher bitrate as HQ profile, and the former HQ profile as MQ
<illwieckz> not more
<illwieckz> so, yes, to do that D5100 sample collection, I reflashed my D5100 seven time
<illwieckz> Usually no one needs to reflash it so many time, for example I previously reflashed mine three years ago with lossless raw enabled and video timelimit disabled, and never had the need to change it (unless to do some comparative samples today)