jake_tauber Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Wait, I have a phone call. Oh, it's for you Huw...it's Hermes calling. Still amazed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark-j Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Congradulations HUW. I admire your positive attitude as we see so much the other direction. Huw has taken the initiative on a project that others thought of and shared on the internet. Then he took it a step farther, started on it and shared his progress with us, and fully expects it to work. His past record shows he can and does make things work, and others need to learn this attitude. The power of positive thinking is very real and produces success stories. I expect this to be one. Keep it up. Mark J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjm photo Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Just keep up the posts, Huw, maybe the gents from Solms who are following your progress with every post may notice something.....something which they forgot to include in their design! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted February 25, 2006 Author Share Posted February 25, 2006 Simplicity, well you never know! (bit like a Leica) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted February 25, 2006 Author Share Posted February 25, 2006 Ben, PLC 50 (60Hz) and a few hundred lines, FPGA 100s of MHz and thousands of lines. Much more alike than serial (PC microprocessors) devices are to them. More like apples and a truck load of apples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew robertson Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Maybe Leica hasn't made the Digital M yet because they're waiting for Hew to finish his version, and they buying the prototype off him and shoehorning it into an MP body. I mean, Epson already made a digital M, and they don't even really make cameras! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich815 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 <i>"I mean, Epson already made a digital M, and they don't even really make cameras!"</i><p> Steve's Digicams website has four reviews for four different Epson digital camera models going back to 1999. Unless Epson only labeled them and did not make them themselves... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew robertson Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Have you ever used any of the Epson digicams (excepting the R-D1)? They barely qualify as cameras. Kodak can make a better digicam than Epson, which is saying a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_piper2 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Actuall - Huw - once you get it up and running you should try some color work. Just get a set of Wratten color separation filters, shoot 3 separate exposures (non-moving subject, obviously) and combine the 3 resulting grayscale images as color channels. You should be able to get the resolution of a Foveon-style chip (no color aliasing) since you'd avoid the effects of a Bayer pattern. And getting the exposures and contrast to balance across the three color exposures should be as much fun (and almost as time-consuming) as getting the basic camera to work in the first place. 8^) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyaitken Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Let's not forget Huw's also the guy who put an internal lightmeter in a LTM Leica body - something else that Leica never managed (heck it took them 3 decades to put one in an M body properly). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
working camera Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Andy Piper , feb 25, 2006; 10:39 p.m. Colour from Mono chip. Andy, I totally agree It is this an aspect of Huw's camera that gets me pretty excited. It just has so much creative potential. C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aoresteen Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 How about a PCMCIA Parallel adapter? I have one you could borrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 Anthony, Ordered one at the weekend (further up this thread) thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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