This is a long shot...
I want to write code for my Leica camera similar to magic lantern. I have never coded anything except MATLAB for engineering projects. I plan to learn multiple languages over the course of this project. The goal is to increase speed. The Leica S2 is very slow, not just the capture rate, but the entire UI. After each button is pressed, it takes roughly .25-.5 seconds to see a change. Here are my questions:
1. Which language should I learn if the goal is to keep the UI exactly the same, but increase the speed of the overall system? How much of the bottleneck is hardware based?
2. If I wanted to completely change the UI to something like the Hasselblad X1D or the Canon 5dXX, (without touch function of course) where would I start?
3. Most importantly, is it possible to program an "electronic shutter" through firmware alone?
When the X1D came out, it was slow and buggy, and terrible. Through a couple updates they introduced an electronic shutter and fixed the bugs/lagginess.
I can't find any info on the ACTUAL firmware of cameras on the web. Which languages are used the most? If Sony can produce a camera like the A9 with roughly the same hardware as most other cameras, it stands to reason that the advances in speed are mostly software based. My particular model has a CCD. From my reading it seems that the move to CMOS by almost the entire industry was based on the slow readout of CCD. Is it even possible to use an electronic shutter with a CCD? The camera has mirror up mode but it still uses the mechanical shutter which introduces vibrations. Normally it wouldn't matter but I shoot astrophotography and I'd like to get cleaner shots in this regard.
I want to write code for my Leica camera similar to magic lantern. I have never coded anything except MATLAB for engineering projects. I plan to learn multiple languages over the course of this project. The goal is to increase speed. The Leica S2 is very slow, not just the capture rate, but the entire UI. After each button is pressed, it takes roughly .25-.5 seconds to see a change. Here are my questions:
1. Which language should I learn if the goal is to keep the UI exactly the same, but increase the speed of the overall system? How much of the bottleneck is hardware based?
2. If I wanted to completely change the UI to something like the Hasselblad X1D or the Canon 5dXX, (without touch function of course) where would I start?
3. Most importantly, is it possible to program an "electronic shutter" through firmware alone?
When the X1D came out, it was slow and buggy, and terrible. Through a couple updates they introduced an electronic shutter and fixed the bugs/lagginess.
I can't find any info on the ACTUAL firmware of cameras on the web. Which languages are used the most? If Sony can produce a camera like the A9 with roughly the same hardware as most other cameras, it stands to reason that the advances in speed are mostly software based. My particular model has a CCD. From my reading it seems that the move to CMOS by almost the entire industry was based on the slow readout of CCD. Is it even possible to use an electronic shutter with a CCD? The camera has mirror up mode but it still uses the mechanical shutter which introduces vibrations. Normally it wouldn't matter but I shoot astrophotography and I'd like to get cleaner shots in this regard.