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• Lot of sample footage 1080P 30FPS 5mm 12mm 35mm CCTV lenses

  Jacob David C Cunningham • 3 days ago • 0 comments

  Really like this shot mmm

  There were a lot of snakes out I saw at least 4

• Video Record Live View

  Jacob David C Cunningham • 4 days ago • 0 comments

  Idk what to call this but it's what cameras normally have ha, where you can see what you're recording.

• Another day out

  Jacob David C Cunningham • 04/17/2024 at 20:03 • 0 comments

  I got some better shots

  I have some code in progress now, not sure if I'll get it done today/soon.

  Will address:

  - USB file transfer (no wifi network needed eg. sftp)

  - delete all camera/video files from menu choice

  - reset battery from menu choice (vs. current percentage check)

• A camera is a camera...

  Jacob David C Cunningham • 04/14/2024 at 01:25 • 0 comments

  So I went out and used this thing as I normally would with any other camera (Nex 5n, A7 II or A7R III). I'm not a professional photographer, I just like going to the park and shooting macro.

  Can see I shot 72 images or tried to some failed.

  Today was spurred on by my investigation/comparison of two 16mm telephoto (blue ring) lenses to see if I got a bad batch (first one) or if this is how they are (bad bokeh/highlight at low aperture).

  As far as how many I consider good/came out... let's see.

  I also want to note, the auto light/color balance was not good sometimes... if I was looking towards the sun it would get so dark all the colors would be lost eg. green grass. Which I know that is a thing but still.

  First impressions of photos...

  F1.8 is pretty soft for some reason, 2.8 is good

  Bee midflight

  1.4 or that area blooming?

  Heron on a tree, I didn't have the reach sadly

  This one's cool

  This one's nice

  Bumblee

  The issue is not as prominent here so I think this lens is better

  Last pic

  Here's a bonus video

  I shoot these blind (no live preview) because I have to figure out how to do that with the SPI display.

  I will say... I'm still generally unsatisfied with these photos, the quality specifically. I still have to get one of the "real lens" adapters and use a real camera lens to see if that helps but it may just be the sensor too. My specific use case is putting my photos on my 32" 1440P ultrawide monitor and the photos on there now are from 16MP, 24MP and 42MP cameras... and real glass so not fair but yeah.

• Profesh

  Jacob David C Cunningham • 04/10/2024 at 00:48 • 0 comments

  Got some decent shots, only used the Arducam 8-50mm. I did buy a second 16mm telephoto lens to see if the crazy highlights are just how the lens are or if I got a bad one. That's still being shipped.

  I think these two were the best shot of the day though

  Full res links

  OMG... it's intercepting the links and embedding them

• Redemption

  Jacob David C Cunningham • 04/03/2024 at 01:40 • 0 comments

  Sort of

  This time most of the pictures saved vs. almost none

  I have to add this file size check

  I almost thought when I got the field that it was broken, since I stopped a battery profiling test (takes hours eg. 8) but thankfully it was working still, had to get past a white screen, probably a white on white text to background situation.

  Got some cool shots though.

  The v3 ultrawide was disappointing, damn... at least stretched out, too much detail.

  Some pics from camera/lenses

  There's a weird w shape distortion with the wide, idk it's easier to tell when you have uniform lines

  The 16mm telephoto lens has some really nasty bright spots idk how to explain it, I'm not sure if the one I got is bad or this is just how it is... next time I have $50 to drop I'll get another one to test.

  This could be a cool pic if it didn't have the crazy background branches popping out of the blur

  I don't want to say it, but I think right now the 8-50mm arducam lens is the best lens I have for the HQ cam. The 16mm just has correct color vs. the 8-50mm (slight purple tint).

  This is also with the 16mm and I focused on the tree.

  Here's an 8-50mm shot in comparison

  The v3-standard was the best though I also hate to say since the HQ cam supposedly will have legit lenses.

  These trees are called "red buds"
  

  Cool macro vibes here v3 standard again

  Last frame from sunset timelapse which was bad since I had 25 mins left of light and each photo was taken every 5 mins ha.

• Quick n' lazy stick webcam stand

  Jacob David C Cunningham • 03/30/2024 at 03:33 • 0 comments

  I was concerned this camera (orange) wouldn't be used much like the Pi Zero HQ cam with the v2 modular pi cam being the main camera I'm using now.

  I started doing the face capture in videos recently for code-heavy content.

  Simple V-shape design goes around a stick/tightens with a screw

  The stick I just taped to the back of my ultra wide monitor stand
  

  Initially I just used the ML Clip Cam on there

  Like this with the video output rotated via CSS

  Wow... the first attempt was completely wrong damn... I was not paying attention

  I used the diameter as a radius

  This works, it points (sags) downwards too

• Light mode

  Jacob David C Cunningham • 03/29/2024 at 00:47 • 0 comments

  I just quickly inverted colors and menu sprites so I would have light mode, maybe will help in daylight since the LCD is pretty dim.
  

• A bad day

  Jacob David C Cunningham • 03/27/2024 at 23:59 • 0 comments

  Bad code man... also I picked up a nail in my car tire at the park... great
  

  Really bad... almost none of the pictures saved... oh man

  I wonder what it is... I guess I should have tested it more

  21 photos failed out of 25 damn that's bad

  But I got some cool pics of the body on a a rock

  Oh man...

  The only thing that worked is the video mode
  

  I don't want to say it but I should not have gone out today damn

  I did notice that after the photo was taken the preivew was not resuming

  Here it is with a wide angle v3 module

  I am not joking when I say almost all the images fail... something is seriously wrong with this code, I made too many modifications at once.

  The ones that saved were bad. The red buds are coming out though. I took photos of that and those also failed lol damn.

  You can tell which lens took this (16mm), due to the nasty highlights

  The flat tire

  Working on a video though it's mostly external footage other than the onboard video that did save. Nothing crazy probably ugly panning 720p shots

• Crop zoom pan and dynamic electronic aperture

  Jacob David C Cunningham • 03/27/2024 at 01:39 • 0 comments

  So many words...

  These little caps are cute for the v3 modules

  Will go out to the park tomorrow

  Video and pull request

  https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/modular-pi-cam/pull/5

  This code is still bad but it'll work for tomorrow, has camera detection and dynamic feature eg. text overlay with focus diopter value in the case of the v3 module
  

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