Hi all,
Thank you so much for your answers and info; its been really helpful, below some comments and questions, sorry for the long post!
@Oteck
Not sure about others but i try to scan in the darkest place possible with little ambient light contaminating like a corner of the room and enclose it in blankets.
Also you'll need to make sure that the camera and mainly the projector doesn't move or your scans will never line up. That k132 has a very terrible tripod mount so id find a better way to secure it
Yeah, Im living in the tropics for now so there is light everywhere! Definitely need an enclosure; I will use some black board panels for that. I’m currently using a very cheap tripod, I’m on the hunt for better one or might just build a custom platform.
also whats your frame limit set to?
Not sure what this is, is it 0? (image 1)
@Curiousjeff
I have written many post about using a Canon with David in the old David forum using the Canon live view.
Narmella has many more post for using frame grabber.
Thanks, there is a lot of very useful information I am going through it in the old forums
Is frame grabber the same as image grabber? If it is different, where do I access frame grabber?
you are using live vew, the resolution is not very high, but it's a good place to start with David.
You can modifiy the camera settings directly on the camera to find the best settings. No need to have it done through David.
If available on your camera, you could install MagicLantern.
I have just installed MagicLantern really nice software, although not sure how to use it with David, besides the aperture is there anything else I can modify with it?
The most important is to have a stable image in the live view within David. Of course no shaking, but also no lines going across the screen (out of sync problems). No pulsing image either. To more stable the better. Look also if the red sine waves are moving.
will keep an eye on that
If I understood correctly there are two options when using a canon: live view and frame grabber, with live view being low resolution and frame grabber a better one but takes a bit more steps and Narmella later develop a code called Letscan based on Frame grabber. Is this correct?
P.S. I had a better look at your images. It's a good start. Bring quality check and outlier removal to zero at first. Also, make sure your sine waves are as decribed in the David manual
Ok ill double check that
@ micr0, lol yeah those keep me distracted
@OTeck
What resolution are you getting from live view? looking closely it seems very low. Also note that video coming from that form is compressed so it's not the best quality. You can probably try the hdmi feed but you need the magiclantern hack to get the clean progressive output.
Live view the same as selecting my camera from the options right? If so I think I get 1056 x 704.(image 2) So far I am using default setting when plugin the camera to the PC. Can I change this with Magic Latern?
What is the hdmi feed?
How do I set up that hdmi feed with magiclantern?
I was going to ask what would be a good camera to buy after getting some experience with the canon, but after seeing the impressive results obtained by narmella using Letscan, should I still invest in another camera or stick with using the canon? If another camera will help me achieve faster/higher quality results what would be a good option?
Thanks again guys!