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Hi everyone! I used to visit this forum time ago, when I became an owner of the original Wolverine MovieMaker (not the pro version). In the end, I became more interested on the technical aspects than digitizing films. I ended up releasing my own "remixed" version of the firmware (still available on http://retromania.pandelground.com/w...tal-moviemaker), which enabled FullHD (1920x1080) capture mode and higher bitrates, albeit it's only a cheap hack.
It's been a couple years from last time I entered here and was amazed to discover how the venerable, original topic about the Wolverine (http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bi...1;t=011395;p=2) has evolved into a full, professional project on his own (http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/vbb/fo...wkeye-telecine). I've been trying to read ALL the messages in both threads, but there's about 50 pages worth of discussion in each topic, so I haven't had any other chance than digest it a bit.
What I'm asking for is: could you please summarize a bit about the state of the project and why any attempt on hacking/modified the original firmware was abandoned? Yep, I'm aware of the bad quality of the camera/lens, but... couldn't it be possible to get a compromise between the original project and yours without too much hardware hassle? In particular, there is one comment from Stan Jelavic that puzzles me out:
http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bi...;t=011395;p=42
"1. The Wolverine camera is not the same resolution. It is 720 x 480 because of the 6mm lens used. Then they double up the frame digitally.
It cannot be reused because the sensor is a part of their controller board. The new 12mm lens that we use with the new cam is far superior.. see some of the test results earlier in the thread."
"The 6mm lens has wide FOV and thus low optical resolution,sooo they digitally double the frame and that gives lots of artifacts. Additionally the MP4 encoding has high compression. The frames are not stored anywhere but pushed into the mpeg stream by the Novatek chip.
You cannot put a higher FOV lens in there because there is not enough room to back off the controller."
How do you know that? I mean... Have you inspected, reversed ingeneered the firmware? I've read previous messages when the low quality of the lens is clearly displayed, but... Couldn't that be tweaked in any way? Maybe attaching a new lens and reusing the camera at higher resolution? Having been able to find a picture of the cam+lens either
Sorry dudes; I don't mean to be rude or anything. Just asking and very quick when writing this. I'm always short on spare time. Will return later and check and add more info. And dozens of thanks to those involved in that great, amazing project as the Hawkeye is. I cannot believe you have reached such an amount of success.
It's been a couple years from last time I entered here and was amazed to discover how the venerable, original topic about the Wolverine (http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bi...1;t=011395;p=2) has evolved into a full, professional project on his own (http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/vbb/fo...wkeye-telecine). I've been trying to read ALL the messages in both threads, but there's about 50 pages worth of discussion in each topic, so I haven't had any other chance than digest it a bit.
What I'm asking for is: could you please summarize a bit about the state of the project and why any attempt on hacking/modified the original firmware was abandoned? Yep, I'm aware of the bad quality of the camera/lens, but... couldn't it be possible to get a compromise between the original project and yours without too much hardware hassle? In particular, there is one comment from Stan Jelavic that puzzles me out:
http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bi...;t=011395;p=42
"1. The Wolverine camera is not the same resolution. It is 720 x 480 because of the 6mm lens used. Then they double up the frame digitally.
It cannot be reused because the sensor is a part of their controller board. The new 12mm lens that we use with the new cam is far superior.. see some of the test results earlier in the thread."
"The 6mm lens has wide FOV and thus low optical resolution,sooo they digitally double the frame and that gives lots of artifacts. Additionally the MP4 encoding has high compression. The frames are not stored anywhere but pushed into the mpeg stream by the Novatek chip.
You cannot put a higher FOV lens in there because there is not enough room to back off the controller."
How do you know that? I mean... Have you inspected, reversed ingeneered the firmware? I've read previous messages when the low quality of the lens is clearly displayed, but... Couldn't that be tweaked in any way? Maybe attaching a new lens and reusing the camera at higher resolution? Having been able to find a picture of the cam+lens either
Sorry dudes; I don't mean to be rude or anything. Just asking and very quick when writing this. I'm always short on spare time. Will return later and check and add more info. And dozens of thanks to those involved in that great, amazing project as the Hawkeye is. I cannot believe you have reached such an amount of success.
ll_setClockFreq() Target(4) freq can not be divided with no remainder! Result is 24750000Hz.
rvLCDState() state=0x06 not support!
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