Re: [Elphel-support] DC auto-iris

2012-10-14 Thread Shane Sanford
Thanks! You just saved me a reasonable amount of work prototyping and testing to come to the same conclusion... Shane From: support-list [mailto:support-list@support.elphel.com] Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 11:42 PM To: Shane Sanford; Elphel List Subject: Re: [Elphel-support] DC

Re: [Elphel-support] DC auto-iris

2012-10-13 Thread support-list
Hello Shane, I was thinking of adding lens control to the camera, but then I realized that with the 2.2 um pixels (and the modern sensors have even smaller ones) the usable aperture adjustment is very limited because of the diffraction - the maximal F# is just the ratio of the pixel size to the

[Elphel-support] DC auto-iris

2012-10-13 Thread Shane Sanford
I have a outdoor application were we think we need a auto-iris lens with our Elphel camera. Is there a existing relatively inexpensive solution for controlling the lens using the Elphel camera? After doing some looking around I have not found anything that fits the bill but before I go and try to