optical image stabilsation

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optical image stabilsation

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Hint: Limor please could we have an open-source OIS module for RPi & others?

Knowing how inquisitive RPiers are: is anyone interested/capable to 'back-engineer' OIS module?

https://eckstein-shop.de/WaveShare-OV56 ... erry-Pi-EN
https://www.waveshare.com/ov5647-70-5mp-ois-camera.htm
https://www.waveshare.com/imx258-13mp-o ... mera-a.htm

I am advised: "the OIS is auto-controlled by the inside firmware"

this seems to mean that not only can one not use say AI with these OIS modules,
one cannot even turn it on/off???

thanks!!

apologies: I did not readily find a forum to request new products or new stock....
also posted to RPi forum.

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Re: optical image stabilsation

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To start by establishing boundaries: we aren't an on-demand hardware or software development service.

We do pay attention to what people are doing and what they're interested in, and do invest resources where it makes business sense for us to do so. There are valid business cases for creating Open code and giving it away for free, and the reasoning process is laid out pretty well in "The Magic Cauldron", one of the core documents of FOSS:

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/magic- ... ldron.html

In formal terms, the gift-culture model of FOSS has been badly abused in the wild, and time and attention are still constrained by limited-resource economics. A huge community of contributing developers can help, but there will still be a few key people you can't afford to lose:

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There are also major economic issues when it comes to free riders, specifically in the asymmetry between 'free to ride' and 'free to carry'. That killed the WiringPi project for a while, though the main site does seem to show some recent development:

https://hackaday.com/2019/09/18/wiringp ... eprecated/
peepo wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 7:11 am Knowing how inquisitive RPiers are: is anyone interested/capable to 'back-engineer' OIS module?
That's a good approach, or at least a good starting direction. A lot of the code we use and support has been developed by others. Instead of being the originators, we try to be good FOSS citizens by allocating resources to support existing projects.

The best approach, however, goes back to one of the fundamental rules of FOSS: the correct response to "why doesn't someone develop and release X?" is "why don't you?"

Every reason you're willing to apply to yourself applies equally well to every other developer in the world. Projects begin because someone who's interested starts anyway. That's when the 'magic' part of The Magic Cauldron starts to kick in. FOSS has an enormous capacity to improve flawed and incomplete work as long as the person driving the project stays interested and keeps working.

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