[This blog post is going to be short...MongoDB has taken over my life]
Last week, our trusty Nikon camera broke...but alas, our new camera (finally) arrived yesterday! Derek and I have tested the camera-capture pipeline using this new camera, and it seems to be a seamless transition from the old camera to the new one. I have taken a few pictures of the glitter using the camera:
I am displaying a scan line to the glitter here, you can kind of make out the reflection of the scan line on the glitter sheet. I have to play around with the shutter speed and ISO in order to avoid having such a reflection in my images. The most exciting part about all of this though is that I CAN FOCUS THE CAMERA (for those of you who know about my inability to focus the old Nikon, you know how big of a deal this is)!!
I have not had a chance to do any actual processing of these images yet, so look for more exciting updates next week! These include:
- testing different sizes of scan lines and different gaussians for the scan lines to determine the best one to use
- playing with the parameters of the camera in order to get the cleanest pictures possible
- starting to work on and test centroid-detection code