[Elphel-support] Web based elphelVision, PHP thoughts, mods

[Sebastian Pichelhofer]

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 <garyamort at gmail.com> 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.]
>
>
>
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