S90

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[]

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...

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For Developers[]

General info:[]

Requires version 3 dancingbits encoding.
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LED addresses[]

AF LED 0xC0223030
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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:
→ P&S firmware dumps mirror

Porting process & links[]

http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php/topic,4509.0.html

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