melihozbek Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Hi, When you watch the video below, you'll realize that I am not a video maker, but a programmer.. There are artifacts in the video that I couldn't get rid of.. Oh, by the way, don't play with your receiver's settings, there is no background music :) Hope you find it useful Melih Inazuma, Henry Gentles and Cinegain 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Gentles Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 WoW! Amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikkor Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Great! Make this an ipad application with smart controls and you might make some money. All that manual glass looks suddenly so old ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melihozbek Posted November 8, 2014 Author Share Posted November 8, 2014 Well it works in windows tablet, but as the touch screen's mouse events are a bit different, you have to use mouse with the program I can port it to ipad actually :) Regards Melih Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ebrahim Saadawi Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Ipad Iphone Android compatability = A very successful (and brilliant) application for fillmakers. It works much better than I would have thought! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxotics Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 I take it it's written in C#? Are you open-sourcing it, planning to commercialize it? I went to your site, I think, http://www.dijitalakademi.com/ if so, if there an English version? The app that comes with Panasonic cameras works well on my Android. Of course, you can't script the commands. Not sure how many people would use such a feature. Anyway, love to learn more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melihozbek Posted November 9, 2014 Author Share Posted November 9, 2014 Well, it is originally a program written in Visual Basic 6.0, 13 years ago for Casio QV3000.. That camera accepts commands from usb interface.. So it is an adaptation with so many unnecessary code. If I can tidy it up, I'll open the source.. I don't know if people would pay the software, but most probably it will be free.. :) I am a 'early retired' software developer (worked for 25 years) and photographer (another 25 years :).. Now as you may have guessed, I am teaching photography. Unfortunately there is no english version of my site. Only this page: http://www.dijitalakademi.com/camsime.asp , my camera simulator.. Scripting commands can be used in timelapses, focus pulling, focus stacking, night sky photography etc.. I'll try to make some samples and post them.. regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxotics Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Hi. I've created a fair amount of camera control type stuff ,here's a robotic panorama thing I built: http://maxotics.com/?p=21 Five years ago it was between Mac or PC, now there is still that plus iOS and Android. I'm still interested in it. I tried to get people on the Magic Lantern form focused on a stable version of ML RAW for the EOS-M, but couldn't get there. Anyway, it looks like there are now two people on the forum who can program cameras to do something. The question is, what kinds of programs/software would filmmakers on this forum want. How many of them want it? How badly? Behind me sits boxes of arduinos, usb interfaces, old windows tablets, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntblowz Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Wow this look pretty interesting, does that mean we can say goodbye to follow focus gear and marker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melihozbek Posted November 11, 2014 Author Share Posted November 11, 2014 Well, probably not in the near future :) But these features can easily be integrated into the camera's firmware (Like features in Magic Lantern).. My program does not "mark" focus points.. Instead, it moves focus specified amount from current position. But I am working ona version which marks the focus spots. So, wherever your current focus is, when you click to the mark,it focuses that point. I think it is more convinient to use.. The only thing is, Panasonic communication protocol supports only two speeds, and none of them is accurate enough.. I am working on consistency issues :) When I finished, I'll put it on my server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melihozbek Posted November 11, 2014 Author Share Posted November 11, 2014 Maxotics, in my opinion, filmmakers don't want anything that complicates the process.. They only want their cameras.. I am not a film maker, I am a photographer, software developer, and mechanical engineer... I teach photography, write software about photography, and can understand the internal mechanisms and limitations :) I wish I had a double major at electronic engineering :) That would have completed the set.. I am writing this programs as a hobby, as a brain exercise.. In my software developer days, I've seen even if people are very good at what they do, if they have no or very little knowledge about software and computers, they can't imagine how software could make their work done better, faster and more efficient. So, when you ask somebody "what programs do you need?", they might not know the answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melihozbek Posted November 11, 2014 Author Share Posted November 11, 2014 Ntblowz, here is a concept program for replacing follow focus gear and marker: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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