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[edit] CHDK related

[edit] General

  • CardTricks - OS a utility to help manage SD cards and CHDK installations, dump fw...
  • show_bad_b - OS with this tool you can generate the bad pixel list on a PC needed e.g. for the DNG shooting feature

CHDK Curve Editor OS (Forum download link)

UBDebug - FREE an IDE (Interactive Development Environment) for CHDK uBasic Scripts

CFGEDIT - FREE an editor for CHDK.CFG files

Auto CHDK to EXIF v1.3 package - FREE a tool used for converting CHDK EXIF info to standard EXIF

(Usage: see FAQ; the ExifTool executable is already included in this package; see also the ISO80-issue discussion)

[edit] RAW Conversion

[edit] Windows

  • DNG4PS-2 - FREE a RAW Converter for CHDK-RAW files
  • DCRaw run in the command line. FREE DCRaw is the core software for almost all these converters.

[edit] Mac

[edit] Linux



[edit] Motion Detection

Motion detector speed test Dataghost's webbased MD-meter (website, direct link)

Usable with Opera, Firefox and Safari, Internet Explorer 6 will NOT work with it. (From forum post: Those 100ms lightning motion detection models, which are they?)

MD_test2 jonnythe's MD Test v2 (direct download link)

The forum post is here: Motion Detection too slow?.

MD_Testv3 Barney Fife's MD Test v3 (direct download link)

The post in the forum is here: Those 100ms lightning motion detection models, which are they?.


[edit] Stacking

CombineZM - FREE a great stacking software, also listed in the table above (direct download link)

Picolay - Another FREE focus-bracket stacking program, even easier to use with the same or better results than CombineZM. Also allows the creation of macro photography stereo-pairs by just using the out-of-focus bokeh data from your one-point-of-view focal-plane image stack. No need to shift point-of-view to create stereo-pairs, the out-of-focus data in your images already contains that information for you, it's just a matter of mathematically extracting it.

HDR Alignment Tool v2.0 - A FREE utility to assist with aligning sets of exposure bracketed photos for HDR methods and for focus-bracket images. Makes hand-held HDR shots possible, no need for a tripod if you don't have one handy.


[edit] Development


[edit] Viewers

PIE COMMERCIAL- Viewer and Metadata tool for Windows, with CHDK RAW and DNG support

Faststone FREE - Image Viewer for Windows, with RAW (DNG) support

XNView FREE - a Photo Viewer for Windows & Linux, also with DNG support


[edit] Imaging

RawTherapee - FREE a RAW converter and digital photo processing software, available for Windows and for Linux

The GIMP - OS the GNU Image Manipulation Program, a great, Photoshop-like open source application

UFRaw - OS a utility to read and manipulate raw images (can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in)

Paint.NET - FREE a image and photo editing software for Windows (uses DOT.NET 2.0)

GREYCstoration - powerful open source algorithms for image denoising and interpolation, distributed as a GIMP plugin or as a command line program

PICOLAY - FREE application for generating improved images from picture series

(Features: averaging images, select sharp areas, three-dimensional pictures, Adding and subtracting images)

Delphinus - FREE a 16-bit image processing software with many powerful filtering algorithms

LDR Tonemapper - OS an tonemapper for Low Dinamic Range images (a.k.a. "pseudo-HDR") for Linux and Windows


[edit] Helpful Tools

ExifTool - FREE Read, write and edit meta (Exif) information of images

Notepad++ - FREE powerful editor for windows, with great enhancements for developing / scripting

ImageMagick - OS a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and

write images in a variety of formats (over 100); used by many image manipulation apps.

TestDisk - OS a powerful free data recovery software, helps to recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.

Photorec - OS a companion program to TestDisk. Photorec is a file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks and CDROM and lost pictures from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.

iBored - FREE a hex editor for disk sectors, but can also be used to edit files, including disk images (Mac, Linux, Windows)