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Why didn't the team just bolt together off-the-shelf DSLRs for this? It seems like a lot of the low level problems were already solved by commercial camera mak
by hooplarbazaar 12y ago
Why didn't the team just bolt together off-the-shelf DSLRs for this?
It seems like a lot of the low level problems were already solved by commercial camera makers many years before.
Even today with the R7, why not just bolt together Gopros and manually set the Aperture, ISO and shutter speed. You'd get better quality images, waterproof cameras and they'd be significantly cheaper.
It's a shame to see a talented engineer distort the truth about Wifi packet collection, especially after Google were shown to have acted deliberatly (rather than "a single wrong line in the configuration file") source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-knew-camera-car-software-could-capture-online-data-7792533.html http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
- smackfu 12y agoIf they are still using the same R7 design since 2010, it seems like they've decided that the current hardware and image quality is good enough, and that they would rather focus on expanding the data set.
- dsl 12y agoThe beginning of the article mentions using off the shelf parts, with terrible results. I'm sure if it was that easy and they got decent results from it, they would not have expended so many resources custom building stuff.