On Jan 25, 2008 12:13 PM, B. Bogart <<a href="mailto:ben@ekran.org">ben@ekran.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I and a few other media artists use the "elmo" PTC100, its cheaper than<br>the canon's I was looking at the time.</blockquote><div><br>The Sony is HD with a handy HD-SDI connector for long cable runs. I don't particularly like Sony or their products, but this seems to be the only option in the prices range (JVC and Panny have some that are up to 10x the cost).<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have an abstraction in the CVS for controlling it (uses comport and py<br>to do the parsing/communications) Works with the USB-rs232 adapter I used.<br>
<br>If you end up getting the Sony it would be great to add an object to the<br>ptz-camera collection. The infrastructure is there to give any command,<br>and get back messages from any of 4 in a daisy chain, just not ll the<br>
details are implemented.</blockquote><div><br>I would like to just make some abstractions for the control. I will take a look at your abstraction.<br><br>Thanks<br>Chris<br></div></div><br>