My first post, so my thanks and congratulations go out to all the devs involved in bringing this home.
I saw this post
and I also would like to vent an idea with all concerned.
For starters check out this vid--->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=qgwTCn_X8Wg
This geeza managed to replace the SD Slot controller board on a 450D with complete instructions. At time 3:16 you can see the board, which by the way only costs $30 from Canon spares.
This got me thinking - what if the board from a 700D has a faster transfer rate and can be used in the 550D/600D etc
OR what if a cable can be hooked up to an exterior device like a CF or SSD?
I dont have the skills but a hardware guru could in principle cook something up.
Share your thoughts......
Very interesting...
I'm planning on running a speed test on the 550d SPI bus to see what I can get. If it can sustain a very high mhz, I might have a few ideas. One being able to record using a computer as a storage device via a ethernet cable. So you'd plug this small SD card connector into the card slot of the camera, then it'd go to a small conversion board, then ethernet to the computer. Much like the SI-2k camera.
Also, I think CF cards communicate with an ATA interface. I think both parallel and serial. So if we could create a connector, it could be very simple to slip it into a CF card camera (5d/7d) and have it connect to an SSD with a PATA/SATA interface. Cheaper, faster, larger drives!