Official Nikon Hacks (d7000, D3100, D5100, V1, J1) and Nikon Tool development topic

xztraz

Yeey! more progress! :D keep us updated Vitaliy_Kiselev. What is the roadmap ahead?

mikus

ho my god lol

Yavaq

If this hack would open the way to decrypt D3100 and D5100, the first feature to hope for would be AF FINE TUNE for general af offset. Nikon af tolerance does no suite our needs. Fine tune presets for 20 lenses in D7000 is great thing, but those entry level users must send camera to Nikon to fix offset for one lens, and they often say it`s in tolerance. Got me frustrated with my D3100.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@Yavaq

Tool works with D3100 and D5100 firmwares just fine already.

Yavaq

In my research, trying to find service tools for Nikon, the only tool I found was for D200 remapping dead pixels. Maybe someone find it useful:
Page explaining the tool - http://www.potroshiteli.ru/Test/Dead_Pixel_D200.html

http://narod.ru/disk/4848449000/D200_IMAGE_ADJ_01_25_06.rar.html

Yavaq

I have no knowledge in programming so myself I cant make any changes. So, all I can do is waiting for some breakthroughs.

mikus

I want to know what will be the change on the D7000 for video, and whether the hack is very lucky to come out thank you

roby02091987

This is an amazingly great news!!! Good job!!!
Anyone knows if also the Nikon D90 is going to be hacked? I've tried to find and download A and B firmwares for D90, but i can't find them anywhere... Is there a way to dump them directly from the camera?
Sorry for my english...

bumkicho

Whatever happened to Simeon guy who first decrypted Nikon firmware? Any progress from him?

Simeon

Yes what ever happened to me..

I've been working on trying understanding: how text is placed on screen, so I can workout how the menu's are driven thus be able to "configure" a hack. Part of that has been disassembling the code, finding the data sections (jpgs, overlays, fonts) and related data to control these.

bumkicho

@Simeon

I can only imagine the complexity of this type of work. Thank you for your work!!

bleach551

@Simeon,

I second what bumkicho said.

Simeon

Just to set expectations, I'm about to travel for work, and then person reasons, so will be doing very little (zero) over the next four weeks. But I look forward to seeing what others achieve. See you all in the new year.

bleach551

@Simeon,

Enjoy your travels Simeon.

mikus

what a news please lol

graphicnatured

This is great news. Happy Holidays, everyone.

danyyyel

I am really hopping that this hack matures, as a nikon shooter I have been disappointed buy their video until now. With Canon entry into the Cinema world I don't see things like 10 bit and log base images coming soon from them. Panasonic also will protect its AF line, more so of the slap it got from its own gh2 vs Af-100. So in the end we are left with Nikon, that is why I am really happy about this hack.

It is strongly rumored that we are going to get 2 new pro camera from nikon in January, I hope that Nikon will really put some much better video because they have no video camera line to protect and they there arch rival Canon is the king in this domain. If they don't it will impact there photo market also because those ussers that will be in need of an hybrid dslr will prefer or move to Canon. Just proper down-scaling ala gh2 and 10 bit would swing the market. Lets hope!!!

Yavaq

I found some guys that hacked into D70 (at least I think they did). May be helpful. It`s from 2006
http://wiki.berndlux.de/doku.php/elektr:nikond70s_hack

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@Yavaq

This is not news :-)

Yavaq

To Vitaliy
Ah, people that has no patience act like me.

mikus

no news ????

Lanzar

Nikon d800 has insane video performance and will be released in next year - march.
d800 video is better than cannon d5mII so wait for it.

Nikon d4 will be a high speed new sport fotographer camera. New card slot and insane card speeds. Up to 700MB/s they say at nikon. The card slot looks like a hibrid betven sd and CF. Also on the d4 there is a second CF slot.

danyyyel

@Lanzar where do you read that? From what I saw from the rumors is that they will both have uncompressed hdmi out. But I am a little bit skeptical about the D800 because it is a 36 megapixel sensor. I don't see a full sensor down-scaling at this resolution. Another thing is that it is a Sony sensor, I can't see them enabling these sensor for proper scaling etc. Now on the other hand the D4 is rumored to 16 or at most 18 megapixel. When we see what good down-scaling can do with the gh2 in the 16 megapixel sensor it could be very very good more so with the bigger pixel and sensor. A 10 bit uncompressed output would be phenomenal. Somehow the price will be high, I think they will put it in a smaller body as a D701, but not know.

teufel

Hi Guys,
what to do if I have uploaded a wrongly patched firmware and now my d5100 stay at the beginning with a sand glass...
Is there maybe an emergency boot mode or something like this?

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@teufel

:-)
None of that I know if.
Just don't do it in the future.

teufel

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

so there is no way to get it back to life? :(

Vitaliy_Kiselev

I know such magical place. Service center.

teufel

thank you man.
I just thought, that You or someone have the software, or the manual how to recover boards like mine...

humpman

@teufel you are not alone :D, i broke two cameras like you becuse don't know exactly what am i doing or know nothing... Fully agree, just don't do it.

Ulysse

Hi !

I just wanted to know what are the current progresses on the D7000 hack. Is there any news ? Thanks for the work you've done so far.

mikus

to me please

swfree

by neogene "My only missing for d7000 is the lack of ability to change aperture during video recording"

sadly this is mechanically not possible due to how the d7000 aperture operating mechanism is constructed, it is not a firmware fixable thing, you better get some manual aperture lenses, or get a manual aperture ring

Micah

@swfree: this is not a mechanical limitation. The new D4 has the same mechanical aperture arm actuator and works fine with video (or at least during live view, which if unlockable would still be an improvement!)

swfree

@ Micah: the mechanical limitation is how the aperture arm is operated, on the d7000 it is using the same motor used for the mirror up/lock function. thats why you have to disable and re enable live view , to get the mirror down, so on the way up the new aperture setting takes effect, they did not do the same for the D4, the D4 is not the D7000, it has a dedicated aperture drive not connected to the mirror. its nothing you could fix with the software.

mikus

ok I read every post, but I don not come to understand or are the D7000's hack, and especially if there are already what is new in the video function

thanks

swfree

mikus, no hack.

hack is possibly possible, but uncertain if entirely doable.

check again next year :p

mikus

What There is no hope of, c is really a shame to condemn him

astraban

@mikus : check your pm for the explanation of an hack process, in french.

el_guero

@swfree I really don't think that's a physical limitation because while on aperture priority mode, on live view you can record video and also change the aperture value, if it was in did a physical limitation as you suggest that wouldn't be possible at all.

LPowell

@el_guero In Aperture Priority Live View mode on the Nikon D7000 and D5100, you can turn the dial and the aperture setting on the LCD will change. However, the lens aperture will not actually be changed until you leave Live View mode or snap a photo. This is a long-known pitfall of Nikon's Live View mode and it's good to hear that it has finally been fixed with the D4.

swfree

Lpowell, this is true, nikon took its time, even though ive never really needed a feature like that because im using manual lenses with aperture ring on the d7000 like the quite awesome fully manual Rokinon/Samyang/Walimex Pro AE 35 mm 1:1,4 http://www.amazon.com/Rokinon-Angle-Nikon-Automatic-RK35MAF-N/dp/B004X1SFTA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326481509&sr=8-1 i say if you want live view aperture control , the chances that you are a dslr film maker are good, so you dont really need auto focus, but a nice, smooth and long manual focus for your follow focus setup. just get manual lenses

xztraz

Any updates?

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@xztraz

Personally, I am too busy now with Panasonic cameras.

Geordie

Shame you're too busy.

I'm looking for a longer Exposure Delay (currently 1-2s) and introduction of "proper" RAW. Rather than the bastardised Nikon NEF format. :)

swfree

rename nef to raw, problem solved

osmar92

Any idea when we will get a hold of 60fps in d5100 or any hack for that matter?

Stuge

@osmar92 When you create it.

To everyone who is posting comments asking for things they want:

Please consider that you are only creating noise on the internet, and you make it more difficult for people who are actually competent to collaborate to do so. If you can not be constructive at this time, then please just wait until there is some announcement.

Don't worry, if you are interested in something and you keep an eye on the relevant sites then you will not miss it if and when it happens. Please spend your time meanwhile doing something productive instead of nagging for your most desired feature.

Many thanks!

Personally, I will look at how to up the video length limit on my D3100, because it's a silly arbitrary limitation, and because it makes it impossible to use the camera e.g. for recording a conference presentation, lecture or any stage event, which it would otherwise be able to do just fine in many conditions. Like anyone else who is halfway competent I don't have free time for this at all, so it can take a long time and it may never get done at all. See above. Get excited when something is finished, get working on your own until such time. If you can't help, then simply wait. It is really irrelevant how many millions of people are unhappy with the products they have bought. If they can organize they need to take it up with the producer, not with individuals doing technology research for fun.

Many thanks to Simeon, Vitaliy and others who share their work.

osmar92

my comment is not abount naggin but to have the idea of timeframe. So I wondered if anyone had any clue as to how long it may take for thing to happen.Otherwise I can buy another camera with 60fps.

swfree

2 maybe 3 more years. i say check back 2015, or try to learn writing your own firmware. nikon firmware has clearly no priority right now, and i guess it could get quite expensive. when you write custom firmware, you gonna brick several cameras in the progress from trying to get just the basics to work.

maybe you could donate a camera or two

Simeon

How long will it take for a hack?

Well there are three people looking into this matter, Vicne, Max & meself. And we are hunting for small clues, in our spare time, for the fun of it. As far as I can tell Vitaliy has his hands full on the GHx work.

Why is it not being doing here?

This site seems very focused around the good work being done on the GHx hacks. We didn't want to distract from that, or have the established community questioning the progress, when we are much further behind in the understanding curve, of how our firmware works.

I really like Stuge's post above, we are not lacking it idea's that we can't already do. Once we have cracked open the Rubik cube, and start getting some win's then we can talk about what other people would like. But honestly, until that point in time, I couldn't give a hoot what other would like done. Help sure, and by help I don't mean ask how you can help. Just out right help or don't help.

So yes, 2-3 years sounds about what to expect. Aka, buy the camera you want to do what you want now, and if somebody works out how to give you more for free at some time in the future, then that's awesome, but base your actions on what is currently available, as there is no promise that anything will be done.

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