[ale] Extreme Practical Data Recovery (Part 2)

[Scott Castaline]

Jim Kinney wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net 
> <mailto:hscast at charter.net>> wrote:
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>     Time for DVD burning. I've been dreaming about the D80. I don't
>     remember
>     what the link was but I ran into a site where somone had hacked the
>     Nikon firmware and found reference to setting that would make it
>     greater
>     than 25MegaPixel. Nikon would not comment whether that was intentional
>     for future cameras or could it be enabled, according to the
>     article. I'm
>     not sure of the reliability of the site though. I beleive I had
>     stumbled
>     upon it while looking for something to do with the D80 on Google.
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> Don't waste your time looking for it. Ther is NO WAY to doa hack and 
> create more pixels in a CCD imager. That count is fixed during the 
> etch. The hacks out there are for modifying the excif data to appear 
> as if the camera had more pixels than it really does.
>
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> James P. Kinney III
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Is it possible that the firmware is set for future builds that would 
allow that resolution.