The Open Source Frankencamera

clipped from graphics.stanford.edu Camera 2.0: New computing platforms for computational photography This cell phone... ...took this picture. Can your point-and-shoot camera do better? Version 2.0 of the Frankencamera, our experimental open-source camera platform. clipped from news.cnet.com Frankencamera is open source, runs on Linux Photo scientists at Stanford University's Computer Graphics Laboratory have conceived of what is probably the world's first open-source camera. Their contraption, dubbed the Frankencamera, consists of a Nokia N95 mobile phone camera module; a circuit board; a couple of lenses from Canon; and Linux for all the open-source goodness. clipped from news.stanford.edu Stanford Report, August 31, 2009 Open-source camera could revolutionize digital photography Stanford scientists' open-source camera could change photography by giving programmers anywhere the power to change camera features and create new possibilities.