Hi Gerhard,

On Thursday 25 October 2007 09:57, Gerhard Schillhuber wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using a Logitech Quickcam Pro for Notebooks (046d:0991) together with
> OpenCV for some computer vision experiments. For camera calibration I need
> several pictures of a chessboard with constant intrinsic parameters, that
> means that the focus of the camera has to be constant. So I don't want
> autofocus feature!
>
> Here my questions:
> - Autofocus is by default not active and only works with the Windows
> driver?

Autofocus is implemented in software on the host for current Logitech webcams. 
There is no autofocus for Linux.

> - For Linux there is no hidden automatic change of the focus, isn't 
> it?

Right.

> - If I use the webcam without any focus adjustment, is the focus always 
> the same (set to infinity)?

Yes.

> - If I want to change the focus manually, than I have to do it by my own
> in a userspace program, as mentioned in some previous posts.

Right.

> Is the a code snippet available?

Not yet but soon :-) A userspace tool to handle vendor-specific controls is on 
the way. It will be announced on the mailing list.

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart
_______________________________________________
Linux-uvc-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel

Reply via email to