Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Infra-red photography with the XO camera

2011-03-18 Thread forster
Anish If someone can get the night mode on the camera to work, it might turn out to be an interesting experiment ;-) I was able to alter the camera controls, crank up the gain and get to the noise limit but may not have enabled a specific 'night mode' http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2651

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Infra-red photography with the XO camera

2011-03-18 Thread Anish Mangal
That's because the relevant code doesn't seem to be present in the xo1-camera driver, although the ov7670 datasheet documents that a night mode is available on the sensor module. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:40, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Anish If someone can get the night mode on the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Infra-red photography with the XO camera

2011-03-17 Thread Anish Mangal
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 00:38, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: I hate to mention this, but the specs for the XO camera module include an IR blocking filter (coating) on the lens.  Otherwise, the COMS imagers are unduly sensitive to IR. That is unfortunately true, as the last image on