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Canon PowerShot SD600 / Canon Digital IXUS 60

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CHDK for the Ixus 60 (Powershot SD600) with firmware 1.00a and 1.00d is available from the CHDK Autobuild server.


Reviews: Steve's DigiCams, DP Review, PC Pro (UK review of the IXUS 60, aka SD600)

Technical Data

6.0 Megapixel resolution, 1/2.5" CCD sensor
DIGIC II image processor, iSAPS & 9-point AiAF
VxWorks operating system
3x optical zoom 35–105mm (35mm equivalent)
2.5" display with 173,000 pixels
SD / MMC storage media
Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery NB-4L
Weight (no batt):140 g, Dimensions:86 x 53.5 x 21.7 mm

For Developers

Interested in helping port? Found Bugs? Head here!

Porting 1.00d

 Canon PowerShot SD600
 P-ID:311C  NT
 
 Firmware Ver GM1.00D
 No Error
 Aug 25 2006 09:35:10

The firmware was dumped using udumper's vxworks/diskboot.bin. It can be found here

Beta 1

There IS a working Beta for 1.00d that has been ported! Most of the camera functions seem to work, with the exception of remote-control and Movie features. Testing is required (and encouraged!)

* binaries here

NOTE: It looks like zShare did something in October of '08 that caused a number of files to be virtually lost. While these links work, you can't actually download the files, an the download links simply takes you back to the start. Does anybody have alternate download links? -- Richard Krushelnitskiy
Porting is completed, see Note above, the outdated beta versions are are not longer required.Fe50

Porting 1.00a

 Canon DIGITAL IXUS 60
 P-ID:311C  PAL
 
 Firmware Ver GM1.00A
 E18
 Dec 8 2005 15:39:30

Firmware also dumped using udumper's vxworks/diskboot.bin. Can be found on zshare

Beta 1

There is now a working version for 1.00a!

Known issues on the beta versions

Reports by Ashberk:

  • Sometimes the menu closes by itself (no idea why)
  • In Zebra mode, the screen gets distorted randomly by single-channel color. Don't know if this is a desired behaviour
  • On my Ixus 60, I usually can take pictures for a week or something (even with a no-name battery), but when CHDK is running (which runs great!), the battery is sucked out in about 1 hour! There must be some bug leading to a power loss. I can't imagine that processing alone is able to suck so much energy, there must be some kind of "short circuit" on some camera parts (like flash, shutter, or whatever). This way, I can't really use the toolkit for experimenting in the wild.
  • Would be nice to have a menu point to leave the toolkit back for the original firmware without shutting down the camera

Reports by Bmwr re 1.00d:

  • Confirming Ashberk -- battery disappears really quickly
  • Live histogram doesn't work: histogram box just has a red dot in upper left corner.

Response by Ashberk:

  • Maybe just the calculation based on battery voltage is not tuned correctly to determine battery percentage
  • I have no problems with live histogram, I see e.g. 4 overlayed histograms (rgb and white) in real time, even in video mode
  • I use version 1.00a
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