RAW mode of Logitech Quickcam 4000

Side question

Why would somebody want to mess with tweaking the EEPROM when one can get directly images from the webcam using either:

Jake.

AFAIK there is no way to get raw image data off the camera without the tweak. I see nothing to suggest that either of these apps is capable of doing so.

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Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory

The reason I asked is because, if you take the example of the videocapture software, you can find the following in :

"....getBuffer(self) Returns a string containing the raw pixel data.

You probably don't want to use this function, but rather getImage() or saveSnapshot()."

Wouldn't that be a raw image ?

Jake.

It sounds like it. But just because the software provides a function for it doesn't mean that the camera supports the capability. I'm not an expert on the low-level capabilities of the QC4000- I simply assumed that the purpose of the firmware mod to the camera was to allow it to send raw frames (that is, uncompressed and un-de-bayered).

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Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory

No. Not in the sense of a raw CCD output image.

-- francois meyer

Are we talking about a reduction in the number of bits in the python module solution and not in the EEPROM solution for the pixel data ?

Jake.

I suspect because they don't actually give the raw output, but have you tried asking on

Robin