Live video?brianenigmaDecember 6 2006, 22:58:24 UTC
I can't say that "no live video" is *that* much of a con. The analog/chemical photobooths have operated in that capacity for years.
On the other hand, I guess I can see live video being important if you want to, say, have a motion-activated recording feature that grabs pictures of the drunken dude carving his initials into the plexiglass that protects the camera being tampered with. Of course, that's a fancy software feature and I wish you the best of luck in finding/creating a basic Linux-based photobooth software package, much less one with such a fancy feature as that.
Re: Live video?brianenigmaDecember 7 2006, 00:01:39 UTC
Yeah--I was just saying that people have been positioning themselves in photo booths quite adequately before they had video screens, so not having live video isn't that much of a con. (Then I realized that a bonus feature of live video is security footage.)
Re: Live video?carus_erusDecember 7 2006, 00:36:14 UTC
Or combo up #2 and #3. Get a *really* crummy USB camera, and position it such that the frame is nearly identical to the camera itself.
This is practically what the photo center does here. Combo up a cheap digital camera with a true photograph. All the cropping, tone changes are done to the digital pic after the pictures are taken, then those changes are later applied to the photographic print when it's developed.
Suggestion for live video with #3: capture the AV output from the camera. Most digital cameras have an AV composite output which shows the same thing as the LCD screen.
Kinda off topic, sorry.. but... you could get a computer to put up with the environment better if you put it in a box with a 120mm fan and filter pressurizing it. The filter hardware is available from a good variety of electronics places and stores that sell the same thing for a 1000% markup to case modders.
I would go with number two, and rather than use a flash just have something turn on a series of lights around the preview screen to light up the subject(s).
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On the other hand, I guess I can see live video being important if you want to, say, have a motion-activated recording feature that grabs pictures of the drunken dude carving his initials into the plexiglass that protects the camera being tampered with. Of course, that's a fancy software feature and I wish you the best of luck in finding/creating a basic Linux-based photobooth software package, much less one with such a fancy feature as that.
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