Re: Regarding webcams (pyro) and digital cameras.

[Felix T. <ta...@ee...>]

Dan,

Thanks for the info. Does your program work with just the orange micro
ibot? Is the source available?

Yeah, the nikon camera is a bit pricey. I think I might avoid getting that
to work for now. I'm more interested in getting a compressed/uncompressed
video stream from a webcam like camera.

Felix

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Dan Dennedy wrote:

> I have a little program that displays the web/desktop cameras' video in
> a window--whoopee! I personally have the Orange Micro iBot. I'm
> interested in making these cameras work with Kino, and adding a
> play-n-grab feature to Kino to do stop-motion animation. Also, I am
> thinking it would not be difficult to make the camera output a JPEG
> image for use on a website.
> 
> I just looked up the Nikon D1. In "Nikon Capture" mode it can out TIFF
> images. I'd have to view the raw isochronous stream in order to
> determine how it is packetizing the data. It's probably just a matter of
> taking consecutive packets of a single frame and wrapping it inside of a
> TIFF file. Right now, there is no app that can take advantage of it. I
> just saw it at a price of about US$5000; I can not afford that right
> now!
> 
> +-DRD-+
> 
> Felix Tang wrote:
> > 
> > All,
> > 
> > I'd like to clarify something... are video cameras like the pyro which
> > send uncompressed data supported by any applications? I understand that
> > Sony also makes quite a few of these video cameras as well. Secondly, how
> > about digital cameras like the Nikon D1? It takes still pictures but can
> > also capture video... although in what format I'm not sure.
> > 
> > Felix
> > 
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