I wanted to write some stop frame motion animation software for my DSLr but never got round to hacking the firmware. This would make software like that possible

I wanted to write some stop frame motion animation software for my DSLr but never got round to hacking the firmware. This would make software like that possible and easy. Not everyone is using their camera in a very simple way. Why not have software on there doing face recognition, panoramics, stop frame, etc etc etc