Hi, On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Manuel Quiñones <manuel.por....@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-09-22 19:43 GMT-03:00 Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmott...@gmail.com>: >> Hey, >> >> Right now, I am using my nice EOS 50D when I hack on Entangle. But I >> think this might not be the best idea on the long term. As we all >> know, cameras have limited lifetime depending on the shutter usage in >> particular (and when I test, I sometimes do a lot of crappy useless >> photos). And I may also want to do some workshops where I may want to >> take a lot of photos (for stop-motion). > > A good stopmotion feature would be: use the output of the live view > directly for testing, without closing the shutter.
Would be nice. Is it good quality enough? I mean, can it also be used for finale imaging too (if we do an actual stopmotion movie and want a nice image), or only for testing, as you seem to say? I don't know enough to know what is the difference between the preview image and what is actually taken as a normal shot. But yeah even with average image quality, that would still be very interesting for all the time I don't care about having great quality. > This is sometimes called 'electronic shutter' as opposed to > 'mechanical shutter', and is the same photo cameras use to take video. Daniel, this kind of feature would be feasible, no? After all, you get the preview already displayed. It should not be too difficult to dump it in a file directly... By the way, I have some nice stop-motion related code in my locale repository. Well I started yesterday so it is far from presentable, and I may want to review some of the design, but I can already "play" the images as a video, and it works well. :-) Just a heads-up on what is coming. >> Do you have any advice on a nice camera, cheap but still not too >> crappy? Something I could buy second hand on ebay or some place like >> this for just a few bucks but still give me acceptable quality... >> Canon would be preferred since I have a Canon already, so I could >> reuse the lenses (unless you propose me something else than DSLR, >> without lens changing, why not). > > No advice on any particular camera, but I would first check if having > a shutter replacement is cheaper. I've heard this is common practice > in stopmotion feature films. Oh ok. Well that makes sense when we do an actual movie. But for all the tests, demos or workshop, I think it would still make sense. I mean, you can get really cheap second hand cameras for a few dozen euros. I searched a little after reading your message and found a shutter replacement for my camera would cost around 200 € (though that was someone saying this a few years ago, so it may be more expensive if technology changed. But maybe shutter technology, since it's mechanics, doesn't evolve much?). In any ways, thanks for the input. That's good to know there is always this possibility. > Cheers, Thanks. Jehan _______________________________________________ Entangle-devel mailing list Entangle-devel@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/entangle-devel
