Open Source Camera

[Tracey]

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Freedom-for-photographers-with-opensource-camera-12142

Freedom for photographers with open-source camera

Photography revolution - An open-source camera could change the way we take photographs.

Photo scientists from Stanford University want to "reinvent digital photography" with their open-source digital camera.

The team hope the camera will encourage programmers around the world to create software that will "teach cameras new tricks." The Stanford camera means we will no longer just have to use the pre-installed software that comes from the manufacturer. Almost all the features on this new camera are controlled by software that can be created by anyone.

What would this mean for the big manufacturers?

[Grendel]

wow, I know some astronomers who will just love this.
Grendel

[Hedgehog]

Interesting but essentially it's just a way to allow custom in-camera processing of things that we already do once the file is in the PC... nice for folks who don't know how to do this but it seem to me just to be an extension to the auto mode... some features they mention might be fun to play with such as the micro-lens-array... but it's nothing particularly new.

[Tracey]

Maybe it would turn into a camera that would grow with the user?

I dont know what all this research and development means or what it will eventually achieve, but it could be interesting to watch