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I agree that having a screen on the front would be silly. If a wifi+FLIR camera can be added for App viewing, and adds maybe $100 to the cost of the unit, I would consider it. but my guess is it will cost a lot more.

Plus, it seems like the microwaves emitted inside would wreak havoc with the CMOS or CCD of the IR camera... and anything that would shield those, would also block the IR (why you can't use through glass)

I think the worst that probably happened to the computer was a) disk erasure, and looking at the boot error 2) the cmos battery was sucked out of its socket.

i do not understand your rebuttal to my artist comment.
is that even a rebuttal?
because it appears to me you used my comment to seque into something entirely different.

is it your position that a CMO of a company is an artist?
or,
that data and statistics are beautiful and therefore art?

and i dont see how you came to the conclusion that i was speaking of artists as a refusal to grow up.
unless our definitions of adulthood are so drastically different as to warrant an explanation.

please clarify.

I think what you're describing as The Artist is the refusal to grow up. The world has advanced: many professional creatives today have to work hard to increase their IQs and manage large data sets. That's good: data is beautiful and complex.

I don't think these things are in-born and unchangable. I think practical people who are intellectually curious can go into any of many secure careers

The strings would not look like this if filmed with a CCD with a universal shutter. This effect is from the rolling shutter in almost all modern CMOS-based camera sensors.

It's sort of an illusion, but not due to the optics of the camera, rather the temporal effect of the sensors.

Thanks that is awesome. The future looks bright for nighttime imaging. CMOS sensors are going to pass CCD some day I bet.

I always thought long boot times were down to old CMOS tech still being used from the DOS ages. But I'm no tech head so meh.

I bet the camera here is modified from a phone camera (an LG Revolution or something). My phone camera is 8 MP (HTC Inspire), which isn't shabby. It looks like they have a series of LED lights, a camera-phone camera, and more-than-one optical mouse LED/CMOS points to capture twisting and write the info on the fly instead of relying completely on software to autostitch similar data together.

The predefined depth-of-focus of about a cm and the optical mouse info would be all this has over my phone (which has a light with adjustable brightness next to the camera)... so, I was honestly expecting someone to reply 'yeah, here are some phone apps that can do this with varying degrees of quality'.

>> ^MarineGunrock:

High-resolution scanning? No.>> ^bamdrew:
isn't this something a phone camera should be able to do decently?

...I wonder if youdiejoe has anything insightful to say about this?

It's a fun first attempt, but in the end it just looks like poor HDR photography. I imagine that when the process does work it will be a single camera, single lens affair with the CMOS sensor being the one doing the neat tricks to make the HDR images.

I don't know why they opted for a lens made of jelly on that nosegear camera. A solid one would have looked better.

Seriously, though, what's going on with the video? Is the camera subject to high-frequency vibration and the camera uses a rolling-shutter CMOS sensor? Makes for a disconcerting effect to be sure.

I had to look this thing up...

The WEISSCAM HS-2 is the newest, uncompressed digital Highspeed Camera for framerates up to 4.000fps ... The WEISSCAM HS-2 has a full Format Super35 CMOS Sensor with a global shutter.

Quite a bit better than the ones they use on that Discovery Time Warp show.

Output Formats 12 bit RAW uncompressed and 10 bit YCC 4:2:2

Geek translation: Better colour subsampling and depth than most normal speed cameras do. Bad ass.

I can't speak to the certification process of camera systems on the launch vehicle, but I do know that NASA and others have been shooting ground-based video of the launches in 4K resolution on the RED One camera. So that's a start I suppose.

Unfortunately, the RED One is subject to well-known CMOS-sensor based Rolling Shutter issues (skew, "jello" etc), and I wonder if the vibration of the launch would cause these image issues to surface, making it (and all current CMOS designs) a poor option for shooting from the launch vehicle.

>> ^dvst8download:
It's not refraction as the tags suggest. It's an artifact of CMOS Rolling Shutter, which affects a metric ton of cameras these days, even the $15K Red One. More details than you care to know here: http://dvxuser.com/jason/CMOS-CCD/


Thanks! I adjusted the tags!

It's not refraction as the tags suggest. It's an artifact of CMOS Rolling Shutter, which affects a metric ton of cameras these days, even the $15K Red One. More details than you care to know here: http://dvxuser.com/jason/CMOS-CCD/