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Originally Posted by Jay Bloomfield (Post 1129093)

But this approach seems a lot more elegant than trying to understand and alter with the camera's firmware.

Then, perhaps this is even more elegant: conurus :: View topic - Possible to create a lens controller/override?

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Originally Posted by Jay Bloomfield (Post 1129093)

But it does point out to me one flaw in present approach to hacking the 5D2. The hackers are attempting to disassemble the firmware code and then trying to rewrite it. The Red Rock Live Lens most probably was designed, by trying to understand the input and output signals to and from the Canon EF lenses, as a black box. I doubt that Canon gave Red Rock any information as to how the lens interacts with the camera processor, so Red Rock must have hacked the signals.

If so then Red Rock are not the only company to do so. Sigma, Tamron & any other 3rd-party lens manufacturer must also have figured out the camera/lens I/O signals. Alternatively Canon may license the interface.

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