On 2011-08-10 17:46 , Steven Desjardins wrote:
I know there are many IT types on the List. I was reading about
cameras running on a standard OS like Android. I'm curious about your
thoughts on this.
i think it's an excellent idea in concept, but it may never be realized in a a
way that
I'd love to have a wifi interface for my camera, so I could control it
from my phone, including some semblance of live view on the display.
I have recently been considering doing a tethered shooting app for Android;
specifically for my Nook Colour (running CyanogenMod 7) - though it'd work
on
On 2011-08-10 23:26, Bob Sullivan wrote:
What I remember was how closed Apple was with their system versus how
open IBM was.
Didn't they want 3rd parties to add to their system versus Apple not really...
Well, Bob, that's why I called it a miscalculation rather than a
mistake. Yes, they did
I appreciate the discussion as this was what I hoped for. I'm
personally not all that savvy about the deep details about how OSs
work to think of the many problems or advantages. I was also thinking
about reverse convergence, if you will. I've read much about cell
phones really cutting into the
You mean like set up my camera on a tripod at home and control it from
my phone? My pets would hate it.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Peter Loveday pe...@loveday.org wrote:
I'd love to have a wifi interface for my camera, so I could control it
from my phone, including some semblance of live
From: Doug Franklin
On 2011-08-10 22:33, Doug Franklin wrote:
The analogy it reminds me of is that Android is trying to do for phone
software what the IBM PC did for commodity hardware: define the extent
and form of the commodity. The PC did it by publishing the BIOS source
code and
I know there are many IT types on the List. I was reading about
cameras running on a standard OS like Android. I'm curious about your
thoughts on this.
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I'm pretty sure that there are several more or less standard OS' for
cameras. I doubt that the each manufacturer built theirs from scratch.
The Kernal has to be tweaked for the hardware and the UI is customized.
Android is a Unix/Linux derivative, it seems that might be a bit of
overkill
On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
I know there are many IT types on the List. I was reading about
cameras running on a standard OS like Android. I'm curious about your
thoughts on this.
You mean like the gazillion android phones and tablets that all have cameras?
I'm
There's a cottage industry in Russia hacking Rebel firmware giving the
low end cameras capabilities of higher end models.
On 8/10/2011 8:08 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
I know there are many IT types on the List. I was reading about
cameras
On 2011-08-10 20:08, Larry Colen wrote:
I'm not so sure that Android is the right choice. I also don't know as if
camera companies would want their firmware on a standard OS where users could
have a chance of reverse engineering and adding their own improvements. How
many of the features in
On 2011-08-10 22:33, Doug Franklin wrote:
The analogy it reminds me of is that Android is trying to do for phone
software what the IBM PC did for commodity hardware: define the extent
and form of the commodity. The PC did it by publishing the BIOS source
code and hardware/software interface
Doug,
What I remember was how closed Apple was with their system versus how
open IBM was.
Didn't they want 3rd parties to add to their system versus Apple not really...
Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Doug Franklin
jehosep...@mindspring.com wrote:
On 2011-08-10 22:33, Doug
I really don't know anything about camera makers' plans. Having said
that, there are any number of useful little system components, ranging
from system-on-a-chip CPUs, to various little codecs so on, that are
pre-qualified and known to work well out of the box with Android. -T
On Wed, Aug 10,
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote:
I know there are many IT types on the List. I was reading about
cameras running on a standard OS like Android. I'm curious about your
thoughts on this.
I saw an article about a camera experiment which gutted the
On Aug 10, 2011, at 9:57 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote:
I know there are many IT types on the List. I was reading about
cameras running on a standard OS like Android. I'm curious about your
thoughts on this.
I saw
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