Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Roberts
[Default] On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:20:56 -0700, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Redundant Array of Inexpensive DSLRs snip Don't ever change, Larry. If you didn't exist we'd have to invent you. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Roberts
[Default] On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:02:51 -0400, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Philip Northeast rnort...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Somebody has beaten you to it Hasselblad use sensor shift technology to create multiple images and move the sensor slightly to

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-22 Thread Boris Liberman
On 6/22/2011 15:53, Mark Roberts wrote: Don't ever change, Larry. Do I sense a strong (plain) C Force here? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Redundant Array of Inexpensive DSLRs On my drive home from San Luis Obispo today, I had the crazy idea that for the price of a medium format camera, you could make a bracket that would securely hold four (or more)

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-22 Thread Larry Colen
On Jun 22, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Redundant Array of Inexpensive DSLRs On my drive home from San Luis Obispo today, I had the crazy idea that for the price of a medium format camera, you could make

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-22 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: I'm sure that someone more proficient at math than I can figure out minimum shooting distance for each focal length at a particular pixel density were the parallax difference is less than a pixel. Far. Let's suppose your

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-22 Thread John Sessoms
What makes RAID work in computers is that the controller interface doesn't really increase the cost of building the array by very much. How would that work with cameras? What would be the cost of a mechanism to hold and control 4 identical camera bodies, not to mention 4 identical lenses?

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-22 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 07:15:19PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: And how would you assure that all 4 cameras were simultaneously focused the same distance? Auto-focus. If all cameras were pointed in the same direction, they should (in theory) all auto-focus on the same object. Of course we all

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-22 Thread John Sessoms
From: Mark Roberts [Default] On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:02:51 -0400, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Philip Northeast rnort...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Somebody has beaten you to it Hasselblad use sensor shift technology to create multiple images and move

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-22 Thread Larry Colen
On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:15 PM, John Sessoms wrote: What makes RAID work in computers is that the controller interface doesn't really increase the cost of building the array by very much. How would that work with cameras? What would be the cost of a mechanism to hold and control 4

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-22 Thread John Sessoms
The phrase this calls to my mind is A solution in search of a problem. From: Larry Colen On Jun 22, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Redundant Array of Inexpensive DSLRs On my drive home from San Luis

Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-21 Thread Larry Colen
Redundant Array of Inexpensive DSLRs On my drive home from San Luis Obispo today, I had the crazy idea that for the price of a medium format camera, you could make a bracket that would securely hold four (or more) relatively inexpensive DSLRs, with identical(*) decent lenses, trigger them

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-21 Thread drd1135
-boun...@pdml.net Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:20:56 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Today's crazy idea: RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive DSLRs On my drive home from San Luis Obispo today, I had the crazy idea that for the price

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-21 Thread drd1135
That's Ricoh, not Rich. -Original Message- From: Larry Colen l...@red4est.com Sender: pdml-boun...@pdml.net Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:20:56 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Today's crazy idea: RAID Redundant Array

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-21 Thread Philip Northeast
Somebody has beaten you to it Hasselblad use sensor shift technology to create multiple images and move the sensor slightly to increae the effective pixel count. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/766903-REG/Hasselblad_70490520_H4D_200MS_Digital_Camera.html -- Philip Northeast

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-21 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Philip Northeast rnort...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Somebody has beaten you to it Hasselblad use sensor shift technology to create multiple images and move the sensor slightly to increae the effective pixel count.

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-21 Thread Philip Northeast
True, but the Hasselblad effort does show the software required to stitch the multiple images together does work, so the idea is feasible On 22/06/11 12:02 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Philip Northeast rnort...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Somebody has beaten you to

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-21 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:02:51PM -0400, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Philip Northeast rnort...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Somebody has beaten you to it Hasselblad use sensor shift technology to create multiple images and move the sensor slightly to increae the

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-21 Thread Mark Cassino
pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 6:20:56 PM Subject: Today's crazy idea: RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive DSLRs On my drive home from San Luis Obispo today, I had the crazy idea that for the price of a medium format camera, you could make a bracket that would securely hold four

Re: Today's crazy idea: RAID

2011-06-21 Thread Boris Liberman
On 6/22/2011 01:20, Larry Colen wrote: Redundant Array of Inexpensive DSLRs On my drive home from San Luis Obispo today, I had the crazy idea that for the price of a medium format camera, you could make a bracket that would securely hold four (or more) relatively inexpensive DSLRs, with