Hi guys, How are you doing? This is my first message, I'm not a developer, I'm just a Brazilian photographer with a poor English, crazy ideas and some kind of understanding of what we could do in the future (or not) :) and I'm here to ask you help or some tips to follow with my busy developers friends here in Sao Paulo.
I'm trying to find a way to connect my DSLR camera to Android. I know that today it's not possible because there's no suport to PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) or MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) on Android - as you guys have already said before http://osdir.com/ml/android-platform/2009-02/msg00922.html -, but let me try to explain why this could be a good thing to have working. I've developed a simple script that monitors a folder on my notebook and send the JPG files (low resolution images) through mail to flickr or picasa. My intention is to publish the images automatically straight out of my DSLR camera connected to any kind of phone, modem, whatever. Today I can do that with a notebook, but It's kind of clumsy to shoot with a Macbook on my back and a 3G modem hung. Android phones would be perfect just because it's open source! I could never imagine that with an iPhone or Windows Mobile. I'm trying to find a cheap solution like an app that in the future could be sold on Android Market to any photo-journalist, press company, freelancer or whoever (if anyone create this, please give me the credit for the idea at least... LOL). I can see some issues following this idea: - MTP support - Transfer speed - RAW files + JPGs - Storage - Multi-tasking MTP/PTP Why do I insist on MTP/PTP? Because all professional cameras uses it as a default protocol to comunicate, send files. Yes, there's some very expensive solutions that can send files through wi-fi but I think that wi-fi doesn't solve my problem, the perfect world could have a 3G modem stuck right in the camera to publish the content in real time. Today with my DSLR + PTP + Macbook + 3G I can shoot and publish with a delay of 30 seconds :) Transfer speed Professional cameras has powerful image processors that delivers files in high resolution. Imagine process raw files with a JPG low resolution version at the same time with 8 frame per second! If a camera has 12 megapixels the transfer of these images will be something like 96 megabytes per second. I don't know, I'm just guessing without knowing if there's mobile hardware that can handle this, my guess tells me that it's quite impossible, isn't it? RAW + JPG My camera can generate 2 images of each photo, one is the high resolution, it's the back up file, the RAW to process and print it on magazines, newspapers. Other one is the JPG version in low resolution which I need just to publish on the web. When the camera is connected via PTP it doesn't save the files on its compact flash card, the camera send the files via PTP, so I need booth files, RAW to process later (after the photo session's end) and the JPG to publish as it was taken. Storage What is better, write the files on the mobile local flash memory or in the micro SD card? Every photo session I need at least 8Gb and I can lose any photo. Multi-tasking I need that the phone write the RAW files and send the JPG at the same time. Am I out of my mind and asking to much? LOL Please guys, I'd appreciate if anyone could help or suggest another way to do that: shoot and publish in a blink :) Thank you for your time! Big hug from a Brazilian friend, Silvio Tanaka http://livpic.at http://flavors.me/tanaka -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
