I didn't find this anywhere over the internet. But I'm curious and I want a bit higher resolution LCD on my Sony A73 for many reasons you all know (921k dots). A7R3 and A9 has 1.44M dots, A7R4-A has 2.36M dots wow. As A7R3 is closest release version, I think it will support. If anyone tried or know something about this, let me know your thoughts.
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I am interested on writing an app that can turn the Sony A7 into a precise timelapse camera with less than a second shooting interval.
Can I use the Sony SDK API for that?
How, and how fast can I control the shutter of the camera?
Thanks
Vangelis
This is what the documentation says about the shooting speed concerning the latest version of the API:
Continuous shooting speed ("10fps 1sec")
Please let me know if you need more detail. I am sure you already have this, but here is the link to the home page for camera development:
https://developer.sony.com/develop/cameras/
The Kinect 2 for Windows is capable of detecting heart rates, but it's not implemented in the SDK. I've found one sample (https://k4wv2heartrate.codeplex.com/), but he has not released the source code for his work.
Have anyone used any open source library for detecting heart beat for Kinect 2 for Windows?
Well, since nobody has answered in 4 days, let me share what I know and see if it helps.
I haven't worked with Kinect 2 yet, nor have looked at its SDK capabilities. But I know that the trick to heartbeat detection lies in the user's image when viewed through a camera with infrared capabilities. When there is a heartbeat, the skin color changes. Try to see if you can make the RGB camera enter that mode, and then simply detect the color changes in the user's skin.
I just bought a Sony A7 and I am blown away with the incredible pictures it takes, but now I would like to interact and automate the use of this camera using the Sony Remote Camera API. I consider myself a maker and would like to do some fun stuff: add a laser trigger with Arduino, do some computer controlled light painting, and some long-term (on the order of weeks) time-lapse photography. One reason I purchased this Sony camera over other models from famous brands such as Canon, Nikon, or Samsung is because of the ingenious Sony Remote Camera API. However, after reading through the API reference it seems that many of the features cannot be accessed. Is this true? Does anyone know a work around?
Specifically, I am interested in changing a lot of the manual settings that you can change through the menu system on the camera such as ISO, shutter speed, and aperture. I am also interested in taking HDR images in a time-lapse manner and it would be nice to change this setting through the API as well. If anyone knows, why wasn't the API opened up to the whole menu system in the first place?
Finally, if any employee of Sony is reading this I would like to make this plea: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep supporting the Remote Camera API and improve upon an already amazing idea! I think the more control you offer to makers and developers the more popular your cameras will become. I think you could create a cult following if you can manage to capture the imagination of makers across the world and get just one cool project to go viral on the internet. Using http and POST commands is super awesome, because it is OS agnostic and makes communication a breeze. Did I mention that is awesome?! Sony's cameras will nicely integrate themselves into the internet of things.
I think the Remote Camera API strategy is better than the strategies of Sony's competitors. Nikon and Canon have nothing comparable. The closest thing is Samsung gluing Android onto the Galaxy NX, but that is a completely unnecessary cost since most people already own a smart phone; all that needs to exist is a link that allows the camera to talk to the phone, like the Sony API. Sony gets it. Please don't abandon this direction you are taking or the Remote Camera API, because I love where it is heading.
Thanks!
New API features for the Lens Style Cameras DSC-QX100 and DSC-QX10 will be expanded during the spring of 2014. The shutter speed functionality, white balance, ISO settings and more will be included! Check out the official announcement here: https://developer.sony.com/2014/02/24/new-cameras-now-support-camera-remote-api-beta-new-api-features-coming-this-spring-to-selected-cameras/
Thanks a lot for your valuable feedback. Great to hear, that the APIs are used and we are looking forward nice implementations!
Peter
I have a question about Kinect Xbox360: it can track the hand movement and fingers? I am searching on the web and I dont found any interesting about this. Another camera that I am thinking to use is the Asus Movement Sensor, but I dont know if this is better than Kinect (more options, I know that both uses OpenNI) or if both are the same.
Thanks for your time!
I would see these links:
Finger tracking in Kinect
http://www.kinecthacks.com/kinect-hand-tracking-gesture-experiment/
http://makematics.com/code/FingerTracker/
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c128197f-6925-49c6-bedc-d7692d03c0a9/fingers-tracking-using-kinect
http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/Finger-Tracking-with-Kinect-SDK-and-the-Kinect-for-XBox-360-Device
These should get you started and give you many options. You can use the SDK or OpenNI, however my personal preference is the SDK, OpenNI or OpenKinect may be better in this case, expecially because of the FingerTracker API (3). Although the sdk has source code for finger tracking with an xbox kinect (5).
My father has a very poor sight and he needs a magnifier if he wants to read anything. He needs really big zoom, up to 100 times. He wanted to buy a special reader, such as this. But, unfortunately, he can't afford it, since it costs more than 2000 euros. I was thinking to try to make something myself, probably with a webcam. Do you think it would be possible? Is there any webcam that can zoom that well? Maybe a normal (HD) camera? He has a huge TV, so I was thinking to make a holder for the cam and connect it to the TV. He can then sit on the couch and read.
Any thoughts? I'm looking for the best and cheaper as possible solution. Any help would be great.
You would need to retrofit the webcam with a closeup lens. Make sure you get a high resolution webcam, 720p or better.
I'm less sure about the software, but surely there is something out there that will let you use a webcam as a simple viewer.
Of note: I am posting this from my ipad. With Goodreader software, you can pretty much zoom as large as you want, and the iPad is much less expensive than the device you described.