2014-09-22 21:07 GMT-03:00 Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmott...@gmail.com>: > Hi again! > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmott...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> 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... > > This seemed like a very nice idea, so I had a look in the code. That > looks very straightforward to implement this feature because there is > already all the code to get the preview. Actually I may have even > already done a dumb version of it. Unfortunately I can't test it right > now because I don't have my camera with me. > I'll go to bed and test tomorrow. I guess this will be also one of my > next patches. :-) > > Jehan > >> 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.
This is great news Jehan :) -- .. manuq .. _______________________________________________ Entangle-devel mailing list Entangle-devel@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/entangle-devel
