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What I want is a camera that works. Open source camera is for less than 1% of the hobbiest–if that.
Right now, the “real” issue is still shutter lag and cycle time and those aren’t really that bad most of the time.
I’d also like an easy to use 3-D camera–they always lag behind.
Great find Uncle Dave – Cutting edge technology that is right around the corner.
Existing camera technology has progressed at an amazing speed over the past decade. Built-in GPS is in the works right now. Photoshop technology inside the camera seems like such a natural step forward.
Saw this on hackaday yesterday, WOW, now this is a good idea. The industry is really dragging it’s feet on certain functionalities, fact clearly demonstrated by the popularity of chdk. Processing power and memory are available cheap, why not apply realtime filtering, high speed capture, etc. I hope this gets to the point where I can buy a kit.
There’s been custom hacked firmware for the Canon Powershot cameras for years now that does interesting things, albeit not as extreme as this.
These Stanford people are just copycats, wasting endowment money and stealing others’ ideas.
#3…
My off the shelf handy cam has high speed capture, and several different HDR shooting modes built right in. I was able to use one shooting mode to capture a lightning strike the first time I used it. I was able to shoot a crowd standing in front of a fireworks display just by using that shooting program.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16830124078
That is my goto camera now, and I have replaced the much larger and heavier Cannon Powershot with it.
#4. “Sigma DP1”, yes, they can boot the Canon Digital EOS off of a memory card and run them as industrial and scientific cameras. There are die-hard scientific photographers like myself, who cringe at calling a digital body a “camera”, for this very reason.
I have a laundry list of things I’d like to see change on future DSLR’s. Most of it is left over crap from film SLR cameras.
(1) Get rid of the shutter. Why do we need it anymore? It is a moving part. Just program the computer to take samples from the sensors for a given time. There is no reason why light can always fall on the sensors. This will also eliminate the problem where less light lands on the edges for the shutter time.
(2) Get rid of the mirror. Like the shutter, why do we need it? The light should be split through a prism, mostly going to the sensors, and some to the view finder.
(3) Get rid of the SLR.
Don’t need it. If light always falls on the sensor, then you can play that image on the screen like a video. This way you can truly see what the sensors see, not what the lens sees.
(4) Drop the stupid fractional speed measurements. Use milliseconds. It is easier for the human mind to deal with, allowing you to focus on more fun stuff.
(5) Introduce full frequency tunable sensor filters. In front of each sensor is a tiny light filter, either red, blue, or green. Why do I have to throw away all the electomagnetic frequencies other than visible red/blue/green? If I could tune the filter, then I could take pictures of things the eye can not see.
Oh, great, just what I need: a camera that requires a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in optics and 16 credit hours of Photoshop! No wonder people still buy millions of those single-use cardboard cameras! At least with those, the picture gets taken IMMEDIATELY when you push the button; it doesn’t have to think about it for a minute or two. If someone ever made a digital camera that was as easy to use, they’d sell tens of millions of them!
#8,
Im telling you just go check out the modern handy cam. For all the crazy modes it has, the auto setting still seems to get all the basic shots right all the way from macro shooting 12″ out all the way to landscapes(now with really amazing auto tiling). My favorite simple mode has been the FOV shooting program though, where it finds the faces in the picure, makes those nice and focused, and blurs everything else out of focus. No photoshop (or lens trickery) required.