[Hdri] HDRI capture program for Canon EOS cameras under Mac OS X

[L.Yimm]

It's a shame about Nikon being so difficult.   I'd love to have 
support for my 5700 and FC-E9 spherical fisheye.  It would make 
capturing 360 degree spherical HDRs so much easier.

Lisa

>Yeh, that's why I was asking about a plugin API to add additional 
>cameras.  If I'm willing to do the work to get my D70 to work, 
>someone else might be willing to to do a D200.  Sure, you'd end up 
>having to tack on 2 dozen shared libraries to support every camera, 
>but I'd still say that for me to add support for my camera is less 
>effort than to reinvent everything else Greg has done.
>
>Trent
>
>On 25-Jan-06, at 8:03 AM, Jack de Valpine wrote:
>
>>Hi Trent,
>>
>>I believe one of the problems with the Nikons is that each camera 
>>uses a differint API. I quote below from an earlier post from Greg 
>>on the topic:
>>
>>>Rob G. asked about Nikon cameras, and we did look at them 
>>>originally,  but there were two things that led us to use the 
>>>Canon 5D.  One was  the fact that we needed to capture full 
>>>180-degree circular fisheye  images, and this requires a 
>>>full-frame sensor.  The second was the  way Nikon created a 
>>>separate SDK with a different programming  interface for every 
>>>model camera, which makes supporting more than  one a real pain. 
>>>It's a shame, though, because we have this really  awesome f/2.8 
>>>Nikkor fisheye lens, and the adaptor ring that's  supposed to 
>>>mount Nikon lenses on Canon bodies doesn't work for this 
>>>particular lens.
>>
>>-Jack
>
>
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