[johann.dugge]

Boris, I only took a couple of RAWs and realised that I need to dedicate a lot of time before getting results as good as the camera's processing, so I've given that a rest. Unfortunately as well, a mate dropped my camera and now the buttons do not work anymore so I can't try the RAW shoot at the moment.

Adri, this hack is base on cameras with the DigicII image processing engine, and of those, only the ones in my first post are currently supported. So whilst you won't get this hack, you should google for "sony camera hack", maybe someone has done it...

Vansan, the scripting does allow for super-cool stuff. I would love to set up my camera with a super fish eye lens, point it towards the sky and exposure-bracket - time lapse it, to get animated HDR skies! I'm not doing architecture at all, but I suppose it could be useful for some "real" light studies.

Also, maybe some of you remember the DAVID laserscanner. Since I don't own a webcam and you mustn't move the camerawhilst recording the scanning, I altered a script so that it shoots one calibration movie, waits 10s during which I turn off the light, then it records 1.5min of scanning, pauses so I can turn the object, then records another 1.5min and so on. I still need to do postwork to get the levels right for use by DAVID, but it's a cost effective solution if you don't wanna spend 100$ on a Microsoft VX7000 (iirc).

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@title DAVID VIDEO

@param a Number of Videos (+ Calibrate)
@default a 5

@param b Laser Video length (min) 
@default b 1
@param c Laser Video length (sec) 
@default c 30

@param d Interval (min)
@default d 0
@param e Interval (sec)
@default e 30

t=60000*b+1000*c
i=60000*d+1000*e

if a<1 then let a=1
if t<1000 then let t=1000
if i<2000 then let i=2000

sleep 5000

print "Calibration Video"
click "shoot_full"
sleep 10*1000
click "shoot_full"

for s=1 to a
    print "Waiting",d;"min",e;"sec"
    sleep i

    print "Laser Video",s,"of",a
    click "shoot_full"
    sleep t
    click "shoot_full"
next s

end

[johann.dugge]

Just a small update, I sent in my camera for repairs and it was fully covered by warranty!

Also, in the mean time I managed to make a time lapse with the camera mounted to my bike when I cycled from Loughborough to London, which I'd like to share with you:
http://blip.tv/file/320051

Hope you like it, and now I'm off to SIGGraph, yeah!

[ivox3]

I took the ride ..... nice !