• Living up to the name

    Jacob David C Cunningham • 02/02/2024 at 01:03 • 0 comments

    There's this law... (my last name) it's like if you annoy enough people you'll get the right answer.

    Anyway I posted this on reddit thinking it would work but I did not realize the gaps.

    I have been using the Pi Zero HQ Cam  but every time I look at the photos it takes, I'm just disappointed... I will try an APS-C lens against that sensor... although I've been told it's a pixel size vs. lens design thing eg. 5um vs. 1um (RPi). I have to look into that more. That's mostly what I'm doing here experiencing the failure to understand.

    I don't have serious coin to sink into this project right now, so I'll do it with just 1 sensor. But yeah I'm just disappointed with the photos the Pi Zero HQ Cam takes right now. I like using the photos I take as a background image and the photos are not good enough to go on there.

    I'm an amateur hobby photographer, I just enjoy being outside doing the photography than being good at it... anyway I like to set the photos as my own background on an ultrawide display.

    Someone suggested moving either the sensor or the lens... and I can see that approach, from the large scanner camera projects.

    So these will be the tests I look into. Oh yeah this is the gap concept... 4 sensors not edge to edge will have gaps people said. I can see that the image circle.

    I'll try the multi-sensor setup just to see it.

    Then I'll do a fast motion/shutter hopefully 1D and it doesn't have to move much, just enough to shift the sensor down/multiply it by 2

    I'm short on time Thu-Sun currently and in the middle of a software project so this will be a slow/towards spring/summertime project. I want to have the camera ready by then. I also have the circular display cameras to build (two of them). I'm in a camera phase right now for some reason.

    Initial tests with the APS-C lens not going well, can't get an image usually solid purple

    Guess I'll have to plan this more

    Ahh looks like you want to keep that black plastic on which has a filter on it

    I focused it far away and opened the aperture before taking it off.

    The lens has to be right against the sensor to almost resolve something 10 ft away.

    This is part of a chair/blinds can almost see it lol

    This could also be where a "speed booster" comes in