350D

The Canon Rebel Digital XT (North America) / EOS Kiss n Digital (Japan) / EOS 350D (Elsewhere) is the successor of the EOS 300D.

EOS 350D All Color Options

EOS 350D Front

EOS 350D Back

Reviews

• DPReview
• CameraLabs
• DigitalCameraReview.com
• Imaging resource

Technical data

→ Camera specifications: 350D@Canon USA

• Sensor: 8.0 million effective pixels, 22.2 x 14.8 mm CMOS type
• DigiC II image processor, based on ARM946E-S core (32 bits RISC CPU)
• VxWorks 5.5 real-time embedded operating system, from Wind River Inc.
• Display: 1.8" TFT, 115,000 pixels
• Optical pentamirror viewfinder
• Storage: Compact Flash Type I or II and Microdrive
• Battery: Canon Li-ion Battery NB-2LH
• Dimensions: 27 x 94 x 64 mm, Weight: 490g without battery, lens, and CF
• Speed: Approx 3.0 fps continous shooting up to 14 JPEG / 4 RAW frames

Instructions

Read the entire development thread before you try this. More than one user has had problems which they were not able to to recover. It is your responsibility to understand the risks before you proceed.

By homeshopmachinist [1]

I'm linking to some files he's hosting but you should probably check the dev[2] thread as there are more recent versions, or check this mediafire share if the old links break.

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Make sure battery is FULLY CHARGED.

Camera MUST be firmware ver 1.0.3!

1. Format your CF card (may need to be FAT16). Copy scanled.fir [3] to the card.

2. Insert CF to camera and run firmware update from the bottom choice of the 5th Menu setup screen. Screen will show "CF card containing firmware is required to update". Wait for blue LED to light steady. Wait another 30 seconds.

3. Turn off camera and take battery out and back in. Leave it off.

4. Insert CF card in card reader. Run Cardtricks and select the CF card by clicking on the picture of a memory card. Format the card in Cardtricks using the format button.

5. Check "CF boot sector" at the bottom right of the Cardtricks screen and then click "make bootable." Cardtricks will tell you to switch on the 'write protect switch'. CF cards do not have this, so don't worry about it.

6. Copy the autoexec.bin in 350D-20101011.zip [4] into the root directory to the CF card, i.e. X:\autoexec.bin - not into any subdirectory.

7. Insert CF in the camera. If the camera is booting from the card the Blue LED will flash.

Please note that after step 4 above :

When the camera is powered on, it will behave as follows:
- Without a card in: Warning message "No CF card" will be displayed on LCD screen..
- Without a bootable card: No message displayed on LCD screen (default behavior of camera).
- With a bootable card in and a correct AUTOEXEC.BIN file in the root directory of the card, the camera will execute the AUTOEXEC.BIN file, no message displayed on LCD screen..
- With a bootable card in that does not contain an AUTOEXEC.BIN, or contains a bad AUTOEXEC.BIN file, the camera will turn on and show a message on the LCD screen about the lack of an AUTOEXEC.BIN file. All features are accessed through the info button:

„1:ISO“	ISO-values from 100 to 3200 in 1/3 stops
„2:WB“	white-balance (the original 8 plus ColorTemp)
„3:CTemp“	custom color temp from 1800K to 11000K in 100K steps
„4:Metering“	light metering, the original three (fullframe, center-weighted, partial) plus spot metering
„5:AEB“	exposure bracketing from +-0 to 6.7 EV in +/- x.0, x.3, x.5, x.7, for x = {0..6}
„6:CF-BSeq/AutoC“	bracketing sequence order (normal-under-over / under-normal-over) and autocancellation of bracketing on / off
„7:CF-SI Disp.“	red focussing dots overlay on matt screen on / off
„8:CF-Menu Posi.“	wether it should remember menu position after poweroff-on (the setting 'Top Menu' is faulty)
„9:CF-Safe.Shift“	Av and Tv autoexpanding the given values - only if needed (if picture would otherwise be over- or underexposed)
„10:CF-L.AFButt“	changes behaviour of AF-pushbutton on Canon L IS supertele (not the AF-switch on normal lens!)
„11:CF-Decis.Da.“	saves plenty of additional numeric decision data and sensor values in RAW and JPEG-EXIF (only for special software)
„12:CF-Flash“	switch flash on / off regardless of flash settings (either internal and flash socket)
„13:Shutt.Count“	total shutter counts
„14:TimeLapse“	Create pictures every [user set 1-999] sec. Example : 100 x 5s --- take 100 pictures at every 5 sec.
	Right – increase time by 1 sec
	Left – decrease time by 1 sec
	Play – increase # of pictures by 1
	Menu – double # of pictures (after like 10 million it goes back to 0)
	Set – start sequence
„15:AFPSelection”	how you can select the Auto Focus Point
	Standard : nothing changed from original set
	Wheel Off : you can NOT use the wheel when selecting AFP. You can still use the Up, Down Left and Right button + the presets for APF (eg. : set + zoom out)
	Blocked : You can only use the presets for APF (eg. : set + zoom out)
„16:AFPoints 1”	set the Auto Focus Point
	the AF helping light of my external flash doesn't work when you're using a set that is not standard.
	Use left/right in the info menu to move the cursor and set to activate/deactivate the selected points.
	If all points are selected in a set the menu will show
	TLLCRRB
	this stands for top, left, left-center, center, center-right, right, bottom.
	the point where the cursor is set to will be in lowercase. non-selected points will show a blank, with cursor set on them a @
„17:AFPoints 2”	see „16:AFPoints 1”
„18:AFPoints 3”	see „16:AFPoints 1”
„19:Review time”	# of seconds picture will be displayed after taking it. This can now be set to
	Hold : display image until any button pressed
	OFF: doesn’t display any image after picture was taken
	1 to 30 sec : display image for user set time --- the maximum values are user settable in the file user_settings.txt, they are not fixed to 30 s
„20:AutoPowerOff”	puts camera into sleep mode. This setting can be set to :
	Off: never goes into sleep mode
	1 to 60 min : goes into sleep mode after user set time (1 minute increments) --- the maximum values are user settable in the file user_settings.txt, they are not fixed to 60 min.
„21:FlashExComp”	Flash Exposure Compensation. This setting can be set to :
	-6 to +6 in 1/3 increments (standard was -2 to +2)
“Flash Ex Bracketing”	l/r:+- exposure menu/jump: +- time

The menu will appear as usual, ISO, WB and metering settings won't show up in the menu structure, they show up in the small display and on the modified INFO screen only. Some edited values withstand battery removal and booting normally without prepared CF card, so don't be surprised.

Short cuts:

Quality menu (can be configured to be available via the SET button in the custom functions)
zoom-out: af points set 1
zoom-in: af points set 2
direct-print: af points set 3

ISO menu:
zoom-out: ISO 100
zoom-in: ISO 3200
direct-print: ISO 400

AF menu:
zoom-out:
LCD brightness level: 1
zoom-in: LCD brightness level: 5
direct-print: LCD brightness level: 3

WB menu:
zoom-out: Kelvin
zoom-in: Auto BW
direct-print: Custom WB (automatically picks the last image)

measuring method menu:
zoom-out: go to beep menu
zoom-in: spot measurement
direct-print: go to parameter menu

beep menu:
zoom-out: toggle flash on/off (red led flashes to show flash is enabled, blue led to show disabled)
zoom-in: toggle safety shift on/off (red enabled, blue disabled)
direct-print: toggle mirror lock-up (red enabled, blue disabled)