Is the CDHK hack not enough to make some serious compacts?

[Chuck A]

There are programs which convert the CHDK RAW files to .DNG, I find DNG4powershot to be very good, if you process using the jpg metadata then the resulting DNG is very close to perfect, it uses the same WB and colour matrix as the jpg.

Write times on my A710 are 1.5 seconds, that is blazingly fast for a p&s albeit a 7 megapixel one, they say the G7 in particular due to it's faster engine has a very rapid RAW write time.

Thanks Ben. It looks like a winner.