ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE
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Reverse Engineering Sony Digital Cameras
9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2019-11-02 · latest 2026-06-23
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…Alpha A7 cameras run Android (really: you could jailbreak and write your own PlayMemories apps) https://github.com/ma1co/sony-pmca-re https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/59226/does-the-son... So there must have been a way to do this…
comment by dofm · 2026-06-23 · in Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components -
…Fullframe lineup launched. On some cameras, including the older firmwares for the current cameras, https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE gives you a root shell.
comment by kuschku · 2025-09-25 · in SonyShell – An effort to “SSH into my Sony DSLR” -
…Android apps for supported cameras. Keep in mind that they should be compatible with Android 2.3.7. https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE?tab=readme-ov-file#wha... I wish Samsung had had better success with their Android native powered…
comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-01-17 · in Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam -
Thankfully people have figured out how to add apps to some sony cameras https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE https://github.com/jonasjuffinger/TimeLapse
comment by jccalhoun · 2025-01-17 · in Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam -
…of surprised me more 3rd party stuff didn't come out that took advantage of this programmability. https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE
comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-07-15 · in Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick -
…phone & relying on it's sensors. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Camera [2] https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE
comment by rektide · 2020-10-16 · in Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac -
https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE Here you go. You can edit the firmware to change read-only settings and install Andrioid apps, with an API to access the viewfinder and to take pictures with various settings as well as access them,…
comment by sudosysgen · 2020-06-25 · in Olympus quits camera business after 84 years -
…APK on a Sony camera. It's just the supported API version is old and many things might not work https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE
comment by dharma1 · 2019-11-02 · in The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry