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Re: Frankencamera Could Herald a New Digital Photography Era
Posted by: Katherine Noyes 2009-10-20 06:57:55
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There's a pieced-together monster shaking up the campus of Stanford University this fall, and it's named after the legendary, lumbering creature that Halloween nightmares are made of. Rather than parts of human corpses, however, this monster was cobbled together from a Texas Instruments system on a chip, off-the-shelf Canon lenses, an imaging chip from a Nokia N95 phone and -- most important of all -- Linux. It's the Frankencamera, and it's here to change the way digital photography is done.
it's a cool concept but the camera looks unwieldy.
1. Nokia (Bayer) sensor? not really interesting, quality of their data processing is a moving target in a Big, Big world of Canonikonians. IMHO, the best choice might be Sigma/Foveon X3 matrix which is a sitting duck, being a punchbag for Big guys. Yet their sensor technology is vastly superior to any of Bayer's junk.
2. Laser cut acrylics? Why not Legos? Out of this text, I can see you possess tons of humour when describing your project, so let me also insert one little "joke" of mine: There's virtually tons of old film SLRs & RF cameras at any garage sale/thrift store/flea market, why oh why not use these, to build your backs for them. Personally I would prefer Open Source (film) Leica, or Mamiya, or Hassel as a base to build a better-than-Leica camera (naturally, on Foveon X3 matrix). Just try to keep original body and glass.
3. If you still insist on using Bayer's type cell phone sensors (as Nokia may cut the funds if otherwise, I presume), then try to imagine using 3...5 aligned (or maybe not so) identical (or maybe not so) lenses for 3...5 RGB and UF, IR images. That's what I call a playground Nokia would love to see (I myself would love to own a Nokia tablet with 5 lenses capable of taking pictures better than my Sigma SD14)
2. Laser cut acrylics? Why not Legos? Out of this text, I can see you possess tons of humour when describing your project, so let me also insert one little "joke" of mine: There's virtually tons of old film SLRs & RF cameras at any garage sale/thrift store/flea market, why oh why not use these, to build your backs for them. Personally I would prefer Open Source (film) Leica, or Mamiya, or Hassel as a base to build a better-than-Leica camera (naturally, on Foveon X3 matrix). Just try to keep original body and glass.
3. If you still insist on using Bayer's type cell phone sensors (as Nokia may cut the funds if otherwise, I presume), then try to imagine using 3...5 aligned (or maybe not so) identical (or maybe not so) lenses for 3...5 RGB and UF, IR images. That's what I call a playground Nokia would love to see (I myself would love to own a Nokia tablet with 5 lenses capable of taking pictures better than my Sigma SD14)
Focus on what photoshop et all can't do
Posted by: cttechnews 2009-10-21 06:10:52 In reply to: Katherine Noyes
There are many things that I'd like to do in a camera but I don't think I want to do photoshop there.
I'd like to address the pixel level sensitivity so that you can put a max exposure on it. that way you don't get the blow outs. with the new high ISO's this is going to be more and more important.
Instead of having a bunch of focus points to pick from I'd rather have one and be able to move it around on my view finder to the point I want to focus on. I'd like to find a site that solicits these ideas so they can be heard and developed.
I'd like to address the pixel level sensitivity so that you can put a max exposure on it. that way you don't get the blow outs. with the new high ISO's this is going to be more and more important.
Instead of having a bunch of focus points to pick from I'd rather have one and be able to move it around on my view finder to the point I want to focus on. I'd like to find a site that solicits these ideas so they can be heard and developed.
