Current Elphel 353 camera only has the rolling shutter option, there is Elphel 363 as well that uses a high resolution, large scale Kodak CCD but these sensors are rather expensive (~3000$) and only deliver a rather low framerate (3-5fps if I remember correctly). Also if I remember correctly Elphel does not have them in stock and requires a batch of at least 10 orders or so before it will start production...
Next generation Elphel 373 which will be released late next year (wild guess) will feature a wider range of sensors. Like Kodak CCDs in 2/3", 1" and 4/3" optical designs. Funding development of a new Sensor Front End now would be an interesting option, the PCB hosting the sensor is a rather small and not too dense board (http://www3.elphel.com/wiki/10338) but I guess it depends very much on the new type of sensor how complex the new one will be. And remember that a new sensor frontend will require some software changes as well but since everything is open and available it is very well possible. Maybe Andrey can help estimate cost of such a project. Regards Sebastian On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 01:43, Abe Bachrach <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > I was very excited to find the Elphel camera since it looked like exactly > what I was looking for in terms of a camera integrated with an FPGA, however > I was disappointed to see that the only sensor available uses a rolling > shutter. > I am interested in using the FPGA to do visual odometry which requires a > global shutter. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrMHaO6NpE > Does anyone know of a camera that would provide us a user programmable FPGA > with a Global shutter? > Alternatively, if we could hire someone to design a sensor board for the > elphel system, we would be very interested. > thanks, > -=Abe > _______________________________________________ > Support-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://support.elphel.com/mailman/listinfo/support-list_support.elphel.com > > _______________________________________________ Support-list mailing list [email protected] http://support.elphel.com/mailman/listinfo/support-list_support.elphel.com
