| Edmond Rodriguez on 3 Feb 2011 14:24:08 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Web Cam Recommendation |
I had mentioned about v4l2ucp, but probably should have mentioned also: For one camera I have, I can disable the auto exposure feature from the v4l2ucp panel. That particular camera's auto exposure is controlled by the driver. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Randall A Sindlinger <rsindlin+plug@seas.upenn.edu> wrote: > Heh. I hadn't actually stared it in the eye, so I'm not sure. > Maybe I don't really mean iris; the last time I played with it > was a couple years ago now and it was on a Windows platform (for > reasons beyond my control). It was fun, but I quickly got > irritated with the image's exposure/whitebalance/whatever changing > automatically, and couldn't find a way to turn it off. I'd > like to find or start another project it to play with it again, perhaps, > but I've not gone out of my way to do so because of the sour taste > the camera left by being "helpful". > > Thanks, > -Randall > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 07:09:37PM -0500, Edmond Rodriguez wrote: >> Do you really mean iris? Perhaps you are talking about "exposure". >> >> The other camera does not have an exposure setting, but I am wondering >> if maybe it is internal to the camera, hard to tell. Do web cams >> actually come with an iris that can change? I wouldn't be surprised! >> >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Randall A Sindlinger >> <rsindlin+plug@seas.upenn.edu> wrote: >> > Does anyone know of any that you can disable the auto-iris on? > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug