It appears that an enterprising Russian hacker has figured out a way to get video from Canon DSLRs. And not just the fancy new 5D MkII, either. This Windows program is claimed to pull video from any Canon DSLR with live view, which means just about anything in the current lineup. The clip above is apparently from an EOS 450D.
If real, this could be huge — free hi-def video for anyone willing to tweak their camera a little. There are a few caveats, though. First, this is not a tweak to the camera’s firmware like the Canon CHDK hack (which adds features to cheap point’n’shoots) — instead you need to run an application on a Windows machine. This means that the video is not saved to the memory card of the camera.
Second, beware. Google translate doesn’t want to decipher the original forum thread for me, and downloading and running an unknown executable is a bad idea. Aside from that, though, this could be awesome, even if it may just be making a screen capture of the Live View display on the computer’s monitor. Another video, linked below, shows that the resolution (from a 40D this time) is a hi-def-tastic 720×480. Nice.
Forum thread [IXBT via Canon Rumors]
Application download [Valexvir]
40D video [YouTube]
AVI file with cow [Odevaem]
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