Hi, On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuel.por....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 :)
Hop patch uploaded: https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?22709 Now let's wait for Daniel's feedback. :-) Jehan > > -- > .. manuq .. _______________________________________________ Entangle-devel mailing list Entangle-devel@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/entangle-devel
