The Canon PowerShot S90 was released on August 19'th, 2009
CHDK is available as BETA version for the PowerShot S90 with firmware versions 1.00c, 1.01a, 1.01b and 1.01c from the Download page |
Reviews[]
- Wikipedia (PowerShot S series)
- Digital Photography Review
- Camera Labs
- Steve's Digicams
- DigitalCameraReview.com
- The Imaging Resource!
- Enticing the Light
Technical Data[]
- Digic IV image processor
- DryOS operating system
Sensor CCD size: | 10.0 MP 1/1.7" |
Lens (35mm equiv) zoom | 28-105, 3.8x |
LCD size | 3.0" fixed |
Card | SD, SDHC, MMC, MMCplus, HC MMCplus |
Size (mm) | 100 x 58 x 31 |
Weight (body) | 175 g |
Hardware Limits:
- ISO Range: 80 - 3200 (320 - 12800 in low-light mode, reduced size)
- Aperture: f / 2.0 (wide angle) to ~ f / 4.9 (full zoom)
- Shutter speed: 1/1600 to 15" sec
Firmware info[]
The ver.req file method is used to gather firmware information about this camera model.
Ver.req First Page Data: After holding down FUNCSET then press DISP:
US & Japan NTSC Version Header
Canon PowerShot S90 P-ID:31E1 NT D
European PAL Version Header
Canon PowerShot S90 P-ID:31E1 PAL D
Version 1.00C
Firmware Ver GM1.00C NoError Sep 3 2009 09:36:41
Ver.req Second Page Data: After holding down FUNCSET then pressing DISP twice.
Version 1.00C
Adj Ver.005.000
Ver.req Third Page Data: After holding down FUNCSET then pressing DISP three times:
Version 1.00C
Adj Ver.005.000 Mecha Firm Ver. 2.02
Vers.req Third Page Data: After holding down then pressing three times:
Version 1.00C
Adj Ver.005.000 Total Shoot: 523 Zoom Retry Count: 0 Mecha Condition: 0x00000000
In PLAY mode without ver.req on the SD card and press the and buttons simultaneously, the screen shows:
Firmware Ver. 1.0.0.0
CHDK Specialties[]
This section describes special CHDK-related things...
- <insert data here once CHDK is ported to this camera>
For Developers[]
General info:[]
Requires version 3 dancingbits encoding. <insert firmware \ code data here>
LED addresses[]
AF LED 0xC0223030 <insert data here>
Available firmware dumps[]
- S90 firmware 1.00C S90_GM1.00C.bin at rapidshare
Dumped by Rachelkitty - Redumped as previous was incorrect
- S90 firmware 1.01a ((8MB, from ERR99, dumped with ERR_99's modified G11 udumper,Forum link): [1], also available from chdkdumps part 2 [2].
- S90 firmware 1.01c ((8MB, from mercurio, dumped with ERR_99's modified G11 udumper,Forum link): [3].
Download location for firmware dumps: |
Porting process & links[]
News & Development History:[]
- (26-April-2010) CHDK is available as BETA version for the PowerShot S90 with firmware versions 1.00c, 1.01a, 1.01b and 1.01c from the Download page
- (25-April-2010) Beta V5 released for 1.00c firmware only [link]
- (24-April-2010) Request created to add S90 support into the trunk [link] and on 26-April it has been added to the autobuild, changeset 888 [link]
- (20-April-2010) Beta V4 released - bug fixes and experimental DNG support [link]
- (15-April-2010) (Allmost) full function CHDK autoboot (diskboot.bin) and firmware boot (PS.FI2) builds for 100c, 101a and 101c released (V3) [link]
- (14-April-2010) First running CHDK Beta testversion for 101c by ERR99 [Link]
- (13-April-2010) Firmware 1.01c was extracted by mercurio [link]
- (13-April-2010) First running CHDK Beta testversion for 1.00c by ERR99 [Link]
- (11-April-2010) First running CHDK Beta testversion for 1.01a by ERR99 [Link]
- (08-April-2010) Firmware 1.01a was extracted by ERR99 [link]
- (03-January-2010) Firmware 1.00c was extracted by rachelkitty [[4]]
- 07-Oct-2009 Public availability (approx.)
- (19-August-2009) Canon press release of new camera