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Re: facebook petition to FREE YOUR CAMERA SOFTWARE
DeVill 2010-Jan-21 11:38:00
I pretty much agree with Jeff! When I buy a camera, I buy the hardware, and
just like I can write programs for my PC, I'd like to write programs for my
camera too. But we have to admit, that the people willing to start
programing cameras would be a limited amount of people. (It's like with
linux: it's way better than windows, but you have to learn using it, so most
people decide to stay with windows.)
Honestly I think we would be better of starting an open source project, that
disassembles firmwares, and creates an alternative firmware that is
compatible with all of the cameras. It is somewhat illegal, but since only a
limited amount of people would use it, I doubt that camera manufactures
would go into the trouble of tracking down these people. Especially because
it would not cause them significant profit loss. NB.: CHDK is an underground
project like that, but not "cross platfom", and the success of that shows
that the concept could work.
If there was enough interest in the photographer comunity for a project like
that I would be willing to start a found raising, and find the necessary
programes for the project, but I'm not sure how to find out if there was
interest in a project like this.
2010/1/21 prague <#removed#>
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> I think that's a GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE ;-)))
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> It's like complaining that auto-exposure in video cameras will just allow
> amateurs to go out and shoot garbage. Hey, all that garbage on youtube is
> defining our generation a lot more, in a much shorter time, than the
> decades-long squabble over HDTV protocols and implementation.
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> But I digress.
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> Great, higher dynamic range sensors are on the way. Can we please control
> these sensors the way WE want to? Not in the narrowly defined unimaginative
> ways the camera companies think that average people want to?
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> --- In #removed# <wwp%40yahoogroups.com>, "Rich" <Rich@...>
> wrote:
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> > Jeffrey -
> > I was at the HDR conference at Stanford last fall and chatted with a
> couple of high end camera engineers. Higher dynamic range chips are on the
> way with the only question, "How high is high?" The new Nikon chip is nice,
> but what would a 20-stop RAW file do for the HDR photography world not to
> mention amateurs who can learn to refine exposure and contrast after the
> fact?
> > Best,
> >
> > Rich Hall
> > www.TheHDRiGuy.com
> >
> > --- In #removed# <wwp%40yahoogroups.com>, "Jeffrey Martin |
> 360Cities.net" <360cities@> wrote:
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> > > if anyone has tips or suggestions, i'm all ears!
> > >
> > > please join!!!! :-)
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