Comments on: Open source digital camera

By: sda

sda — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:09:33 +0000

this is great lets see them edit photos on the 3inch lcd screen outside

By: Rob Birrell

Rob Birrell — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:07:18 +0000

This would be the answer to my dreams. I’m fed up of being tied to the whims of the various manufacturers (well Canon in my case). Certainly it has occured to me that implementing graduated filters and the like software should not be be rocket science.

By: mac genius

mac genius — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:41:48 +0000

sucks. doesn’t run linux. micro$$haft vaporware. vote for ron paul.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:36:29 +0000

You can find all Canon camera’s and reviews about them at:

http://www.cameta.com/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=pv&utm_content=zs&utm_campaign=home

By: James

James — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:51:28 +0000

I’m not sure what the position would be on that. If an open-source setup used the same technology/technique to do something as closed source and protected method, im not sure how any legal proceedings would begin – no-one is exploiting it for cash and a patent doesnt stop people experimenting/researching with the protected material, it only stops commercial exploitation. So a competitor can’t take it and use it, just as they can’t without the open source project.

By: Gerard Braad

Gerard Braad — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:57:06 +0000

They used a OMAP3530 EVM (Evaluation Module) which does not come cheap in my opinion. Instead they could have used a LeopardBoard (http://leopardboard.org/). This is comparable to a beagleboard, but instead uses a DaVinci DSP DM355 (with an ARM)… and it comes with changeable CCD’s (from VGA, 1.5M to 5M). It could do the same computational photography as the OMAP3. And it is open sourced…

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:03:07 +0000

Would be the pits if a university would use a patent to stop research, concept of science turned upside down.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:46:51 +0000

” Another trick they’ve already accomplished in the lab is increasing the resolution of full motion video. They take a full resolution photo once every few frames and use the computing power of the camera to incorporate that information into the low-res frames around it” – my university has a patent on this. should they be worried?

By: clarke wind

clarke wind — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:41:00 +0000

noo i understand the camera is mainly geared toward your average run of the mill stamford imaging researcher however theyre using proprietary hardware on a camera theyre saying is open source. like im saying its open source in the sense that like in the sense that anything is opensource ie its not open source and is completely inaccessible and will cost the exact same amount as a proprietary camera. i wonder what camera was used to shoot all the marketing material for theyre open source camera. and “cameralammadingdong”? learn to spell n3wbl3tt3 BBB))))

By: sgf

sgf — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:38:09 +0000

I think this is a rather neat idea, and thinking of this as a camera with build in Photoshop, or even as a simple open platform is rather missing the point.

By making the low-level hardware details available, you can hopefully make new techniques available. A professional photographer might well be able to do fantastic things with careful control of exposure, but point-and-shoot high dynamic range for the rest of us would be really cool.

It needn’t be about on-the-fly post-processing, but can become about how the photograph is actually taken. Think of it as software radio for photography.

By: ascendant

ascendant — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:15:10 +0000

@dfsdfdsf
cry harder, emo child.

you don’t understand who these cameras are supposed to be for

By: Reggie

Reggie — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:11:52 +0000

I use my canon 450d for astronomy mainly, raw images @ ISO400/800, and unless that opensource motherboard packs a 3Ghz dual core cpu on it and 2gb of ram there’s not a lot that I would want it to do for me.

If it was designed to allow coldfinger + peltier mods it’d be more interesting. Then again, getting into those realms I’d be better off buying something that isn’t open source as it will be cheaper and do what I want :)

By: James

James — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:22:59 +0000

When taking photo’s I like to concentrate on composition rather than image correction/adjustment. There’s 3 things I want from a camera, and I can’t really see this helping – more pixels, less noise and greater dynamic range. I’m happy to sit at home finishing my images, rather than waste time in the field.

By: gandhi

gandhi — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:01:31 +0000

hmm, i only have one digital camrea

By: clarke wind

clarke wind — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:52:43 +0000

also nice 800 dollar canon lens on that open source camera B)))