Camera software

[johnridley]

This hack software for the Canon Powershots is going to be a LOT of fun. I tried playing with it with a "motion detection" script running this evening, and results are promising. I screwed up in that A)I had the ISO set to 800, so the results are unacceptably grainy, and B) it was set in RAW mode (normally not supported by this camera, but capability added via the software and I must have bumped the setting while crusing menus). So the results weren't that great, but still, it's nice to just point the camera at a feeding area, turn it on, and go inside while the camera shoots whenever something gets in front of it. And that's just one script that someone wrote for this addon. You can pretty much do anything you can think of. Heck, they put some games in while they were at it.

I'll try again later with better settings and more light; this was taken in the evening.

Comments

[c0nsumer.livejournal.com]

Forgive me for not researching this on my own, but what software does one use to process raw images from non-supported cameras? dcraw?

(If so, I've personally had very poor results from dcraw in the past... Maybe with some nice curves applied in PS it'd be okay...)

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

In the past I've used RawShooter Essentials, but it didn't seem to want to read these files. I get the feeling that it's written too specifically to camera models, and it hasn't been updated since 2005.
I just googled and found a hunk of freeware called Stepok's RAW Importer, and that worked.
Honestly, RAW mode isn't really terribly useful for the tiny little imagers they have in these cameras. I wouldn't bother.

By the way, I found out later that it still records the JPEG, the addon just also makes a copy of the CRW in a different folder, before the camera's normal processing makes it into a JPEG, so you get both.