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NikonWeb wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 11:44 am I'm still here as well! In fact, I've just added a few new users, after dpreview announced their closing.

Jarle

That's awesome, let's bring back to life the forum! (very sad the closure of DPReview)

Hi Stan! so glad to see i’m not the last one over here. :D Thanks for the bumps. So… since you are here, do you mind if i ask you a few questions on the design? The development reached a point where i have to make some decisions and since you are far more experienced than me, your knowledge can be v...

Well some little bit of tweaking and the artifacts are almost gone, the exposure happens when it should, timings are as fast as they can, ISO setting somewhat works, i'm happy enough with the FPGA side that i think is time to start working on the storage side. For this i'll be using an ESP32-Cam sin...

further tinkering adds support for more the one ISO setting, it should have 100, 200, 400 and 800, i could only get two working, the other two resulted in complete white pictures, it might have some problem on the preamp. On a side note i noticed the sensor to be almost not responsive to blue light,...

fine tuning a little bit the reading and now i have some color, due to jitter i also have color banding but hey... even the DCS appreciates the red TrackPoint of a ThinkPad.

Things are moving fast, a lot of tweaking and a sunday code cleaning resulted on the DCS behaving as it should, now the shutter and readout times are the way the should and it takes pictures with the press of the shutter button with the correct speed and image size. That means a DCS cat picture can ...

oh yeah, a little bit of fiddling got me to a picture that looks like an actual picture, now the D1X can be seen completely, and i know i'm reading the whole CCD which lets me know that my CCD is in good working order. i'll try to fiddle with the file on a hex editor to see if i can realign each lin...

And the glitches are gone, those wierd artifacts i'm quite sure are induced by the non timed read of my logic analyzer, improving that should improve the circumstances.
Pictured are my NC2000E and half of my D1X.

The work contiunes and the advances keep on going, the blooming on the left got corrected, adding a 0.1ms delay between the vertical swipe and the reading got that fixed, there's still some ghost on the left side and some vertical lines are completely missing but i guess that all that is just fine t...

Now this is a Lena picture

It is known that digital imaging testing must be done with the classic picture of Lena Söderberg https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna I don't have one of those so i draw my best on a CF card case. https://i.imgur.com/mIjtWxe.jpg Then i put myself to code and to wire the cheapest and chiniest logic an...

Hey! thanks for posting it here, i tried but there was some issue with the forum and i couldn't do it. That was indeed an advance and finally could transfer valid data but just a few pixels, the interface proved to be very slow and overflowed too easily. The project is not dead and it will never be,...

Quite late my answer but yes, each li-ion cell have their own controller chip since they are recycled cell phone battery, good original ones, mostly motorola and blackberry since they proved to last on spec the longest. Also because of this behavior the integrated batery meter on the nc2000e is tota...

On my NC2000e the batteries just leaked out, so i'm running it on li-ions, i made a higher voltage series connection than what camera needs so the charger will always undercharge the li ions for safery measures, since the li ions are from much higher capacity that the original ni-mh i can get even m...

Wow amazing the fact of the macroscope, tho i remember to use a reversed 18-55 kit lens as a loupe and the results were astonishing, using that and extension tubes i could even make very low contrast macros of small bug eggs. Quite funny the 1D issue... i still can't imagine how people that pay a ca...