Hi Gary, sounds like a very interesting project. I assume you have already seen the Apertus project? www.apertus.org
and the work-in progress viewfinder software Elphelvision: http://apertus.org/elphelvision Its main focus is video recording but it also has photo features. You mentioned that you dont plan to add any kind of viewfinder (optical or electronic), but I am afraid this would make it very dificult to focus the lens and frame the image properly. How do you plan to control the camera settings without a laptop/tablet? Regards Sebastian On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 05:58, Gary Mort <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/27/2011 5:19 PM, Oleg K Dzhimiev wrote: > > Hi Gary, > > Thanks for your interest. > > DSLR's are out of my range.....and while the Elphel components are the same >> cost, looking at the layout I can purchase components a over time and hack >> around with it to eventually achieve the camera she desires. >> > Are you looking for a 'mobile' camera to be able to walk around (in our > case with a battery and a laptop =) )? > > > No laptop, but otherwise yes. Someting along the lines of the > NC353L-369-HDD with a battery pack and an SSD SATA drive. Initially using > the small 5Mpx sensor, but since we will build it ourselves, she has the > option to upgrade to a bigger sensor later. :-) > > Of course, an added benefit to the "build yourself" model is that she can > design her own case for it. So using a service like Ponoko[ > http://www.ponoko.com/] she can design the case and have it made out of > wood as opposed to plastic or metal to add to the cool factor[and fit in > with the hippy woodstock crowd...:-)] As you can see from products like > http://www.ponoko.com/make-your-own/toys/flying-car-6mm--5116 it is > possible to create very unique and distinctive 3-d designs just using > laser-cut wood. > > I expect this to be a matter of stages, first as I mentioned is for me to > make an initial pass at getting a workable PHP programming model to setup > the controls she will need and test them out..... from there it will be > move on to actually getting a board/sensor physically setup locally and > testing things out, while she reviews the spec sizes and works out her > camera case design, then finally build packaging and testing. > > I figured as a first pass, I'd post to the list here to make sure that > there wasn't any big showstoppers or reasons not to do things the way I want > to do them..... I'm also aware that one of the reasons for the DSLR > popularity is the viewfinder which lets the photographer actually see what > the lens is pointing at without adding digital translation... but my wife > doesn't particularly care about THAT. Her main goal is fast shutter time[as > her primary subject matter is our children and a few seconds delay between > pushing the button and having the picture captured is sufficient to turn the > perfect picture into the perfect goof when dealing with 3 and 5 year olds.] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Support-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://support.elphel.com/mailman/listinfo/support-list_support.elphel.com > >
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