Jack,
Manual control of shutter does not work right in dynamic configuration.
For the Sony Firewire cameras that you have on Marvin, the manual
slider in the gui goes from 0 to 1. Auto shows (for my lighting) a
number of 0.006. However, I was noticing that no calues between 0 and
16 were making a difference. Running, Coriander, I see that I can go
from 3 to 1150 on the slider which equate to a shutter speed of 0.00001
to 16.0 seconds. So, the values you send to set the shutter are not
floats in seconds, but integers (0-16; should be 3-1150 for my camera).
On 06/15/2010 05:32 PM, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Patrick Beeson<beeson.p@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A few things Jack. 1) if no guid is given its defaults to the first
>> camera, but the guid is not displayed in the dynamic_reconfigure GUI.
>> 2) The defaults for my camera have the gain so low, that the image is
>> black. New users may think this isn't working. I'd suggest at least
>> setting auto_gain to 2 to ensure they see something. Also, the
>> tutorial could use a page on using the yaml files. It took me a while
>> to realize that the new API needs me to set auto_* to 3 in order for
>> the sclalrs I set to have any effect.
>>
>> These are small things. I think you've done a remarkable job taking
>> the original 1394 driver and making it easy to use and stable. One of
>> these days I hope to find time to do the same with the
>> swissranger_camera driver.
>
> Thanks for the report, Patrick.
>
> What system, cameras, etc. did you try?