FrankenCamera – The Open Source Digital Camera

Well it was just a matter of time for the Open Source visionaries to come up with an Open Source Digital Camera (Frankencamera) and a team at Stanford University is doing just that. This camera will revolutionize the digital camera industry and change the way we take pictures.

Imagine a camera that could actually allow you to compose, preview and shot in HDR? Or image a Camera that allows you to change the focus point after the picture has been taken. How about a camera that will allow you expose one half of the picture at f/2.8 and the other half at f/5.6?

According to the Experts at Stanford University, these are some of the features you will be able to get with the Frankencamera. Marc Levoy, professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering and graduate student Andrew Adams photographed below with the open source camera.

The camera runs Linux, and its metering, focusing, demosaicing, denoising, white balancing, and other post-processing algorithms are programmable. The current version takes Canon EOS lenses.

Here’s a video of the Stanford team explaining some of the possibilities of this Open Source Camera (Frankencamera)

Check out the entire article directly at Stanford’s News section of the site Open-source camera could revolutionize digital photography

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