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What programming languages are used to write camera firmware?
The source code of MagicLantern (an alternative/extension firmware for Canon DSLRs) is written mostly in C.
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How can I control a DSLR camera programmatically over Wi-Fi?
You may be interested in this project, http://dslrdashboard.info/.
It takes a TPLINK MR3040 (~$30.00, and looks awfully similar to the camranger!) and provides a dd-wrt firmware image that puts some ...
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A poster with 300 faces
You can download ImageMagick for free from imagemagick.org. Then you can do this:
First, from excel, export your list of names into a "names.txt" file, one name per line.
Second, "...
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Lightroom plugin development -- is it worth it?
I just wanted to look at how to do batch processing based on filenames in Lightroom, and for some reason it looked it like the easiest way to do it was through the API. Based on @Warren's post I ...
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What programming languages are used to write camera firmware?
From what I have talked to people that write firmware: They all used C.
A classic example that I've loved to death: The fantastic FOSS mp3 player firnware Rockbox is mostly written in C.
I guess ...
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Automatic identification of lucky images for landscape photography
Is there some way to automate the process of looking for the lucky images from a set of landscape photos like this?
As I understand it, your definition of "lucky image" is one which is sharper than ...
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How do color values change mathematically as you change temperature and tint?
Adobe actually describes extremely well their white balancing process in the Digital Negative (DNG) Specification, specifically in Chapter 6 Mapping Camera Color Space to CIE XYZ Space.
The process is ...
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How do color values change mathematically as you change temperature and tint?
This is a more tricky question that you might think.
First, the RGB value that you see with your eyes on the screen are the result of an operation on the processed output from Lightroom, that is ...
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How does Lightroom and PS guess color temperature?
The basic answer is "it depends" on what settings are selected in LR/PS (Lightroom/Photoshop).
Most of the time it is based on in-camera processes that set the color channel multipliers in ...
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Scripting exposure controls on a consumer-grade camera
You may be able to get this working if tethering your camera to a computer (probably a laptop in a car) is an option.
I'm not sure about other makes, but Pentax has a Linux command line tethering ...
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Does multiple day timelapse application for any camera exist?
What you are trying to do is accomplished by a technique known as bulb ramping, or bramping (see: "What is bulb ramping?"). There are several commercial products and open source projects that bulb ...
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What properties of an image could be used to programmatically discard it as "bad"?
ImageMagick is your friend here. You are going to be writing a lot of scripts that call it's prorrams.
E.g. Image arithmetic:
Take the image.
Blur it to a new image.
Subtract image 2 from image 1, ...
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What properties of an image could be used to programmatically discard it as "bad"?
Depending on the language you're using OpenCV as suggested above or it's .net equivilent Emgu.
Basically you'll want to Grayscale the image, then use a Laplacian Blur, then get the image data and ...
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Where can I find or make a script for focus stacking using Raynox DCR 250?
Really old thread. Anyway, it seems people confuse 'stacking' and 'bracketing'. Bracketing is used to capture a number of pictures of a scene while varying a parameter, exposure, focus, what have ...
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