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Re: Show HN: Modular Pi Cam

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Post by JKCalhoun »

gruturo wrote: post #14

Did anyone have any luck capturing stereoscopic videos at any meaningful quality? This used to be only possible with the Pi Compute module (unobtainium for a very long time) but the Pi5 finally exposes both camera ports.... while also dropping hardware encoding, which is likely to be a huge roadblock since I doubt there's enough CPU power + bandwidth to compress 2 4K streams at 60fps in realtime and store it. And I'd…

Happy you brought it up. I've been in and out of stereo photography for decades now. Initially I built a contraption with front-surface mirrors to expose two photos side-by-side on 35mm film. In later decades I tried dual digital cameras — at times even just sliding horizontally with a single digital camera (no moving images of course).

Fuji had a decent stereo camera years ago. I had one briefly but have been unable to find it for years now. I either misplaced it or it was stolen....

eBay is where I head now to find the Fuji cameras. But it is disappointing that there is not a current commercial stereo camera that I am aware of.

Perhaps someone can take the Pi and come up with something fairly high quality.

Re: Show HN: Modular Pi Cam

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Post by justaj »

atlas_hugged wrote: post #17
jcun4128 wrote: post #13

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It's slow haha. Faster on the Pi Zero 2 with bookworm. I think it's 20-30 seconds. I use systemd to run main.py let me time it real quick. Edit: I was off, it's 40 seconds when the intro animation starts playing. This is why the camera spends most of its time in the home screen state until you're ready to take a photo which is when the live pass through plays or while recording a video (allows you to change focus/ape…

Try alpine to slim it down?

I would advise against running Alpine on a Raspberry Pi (Zero) Alpine is great for servers or Docker containers, but once you start installing it on barely supported hardware you'll notice the pain.

Re: Show HN: Modular Pi Cam

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Post by poulpy123 »

dheera wrote: post #2

I just really wish Raspberry Pi would come out with a truly HQ camera with a full frame 35mm sensor, or at least an APS-C sensor. I'd pay $1000-1500 for it, just to have something as good as a full frame camera but programmable and hackable. I would love to build a full frame mirrorless camera that runs my own UI. I'm pretty sure I could code a much more advanced UI than Sony or Canon. Their current HQ camera is more…

there is no market for a 1500$ raspberry pi camera

Re: Show HN: Modular Pi Cam

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Post by fsflyer »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #21
gruturo wrote: post #14

Did anyone have any luck capturing stereoscopic videos at any meaningful quality? This used to be only possible with the Pi Compute module (unobtainium for a very long time) but the Pi5 finally exposes both camera ports.... while also dropping hardware encoding, which is likely to be a huge roadblock since I doubt there's enough CPU power + bandwidth to compress 2 4K streams at 60fps in realtime and store it. And I'd…

Happy you brought it up. I've been in and out of stereo photography for decades now. Initially I built a contraption with front-surface mirrors to expose two photos side-by-side on 35mm film. In later decades I tried dual digital cameras — at times even just sliding horizontally with a single digital camera (no moving images of course). Fuji had a decent stereo camera years ago. I had one briefly but have been unable…

Canon has the RF 5.2 dual fisheye, you can even get it refurbished.

https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/refurbished-rf5-2mm-f2-8-l-...

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