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A fully programmable / hackable modern 35mm fullframe camera with some popular lens mount. Not a dirty unofficial hack like Magic Lantern. I want a vendor-endorsed scripting / custom software API and SDK.
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Apr 17, 2024 17:21
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tuna posted:Same. Honest example: when doing research for shooting panoramic or other form factor moving picture stuff, it's really loving stupid that none of the cameras allow you to preview or shoot with an adjustable aspect ratio. It's 2024, a teenager could program this. Years back I was helping a stop motion animation production create a practical camera setup based on a Nikon D3, going by production notes from Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" set. We had a primitive arduino controlled rig for the camera to create controlled moves and rotations with simulated motion blur achieved with long exposures while the axes dial in the next frame, like a discount cargo cult impression of the Lucasfilm OG star wars "Dykstraflex" match move system. The ONLY camera controls Nikon made available for automation was the shutter control which we operated from the Arduino in bulb mode. We had to physically fiddle with the camera buttons, menus and dials all the loving time.. Eventually we got a stepper motor setup to drive the focus ring. But the experience from that project made me really really want a scriptable camera where you could create a project-specific setup on it where for example we could save to different card or FTP folders the exposures for individual lighting layers in the shooting passes, set exposure internally as opposed to clumsy bulb timing, and maybe create overlay graphics like framing / masking lines on the HDMI output with frame numbers. We used a big clumsy setup with a PC hosting the FTP server for the D3 to dump into, and a Processing app rendering an onion skin stack of the last few frames on the compositing monitor for the animators, along with masking lines. How sweet it would be if the camera could do some of that work.
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Apr 22, 2024 16:45
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