[ros-users] call for testing: camera1394 in C-turtle

[Patrick Beeson]

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 at 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?