AXIOM Beta as photography camera

1 Preparations

1.1 Calibration

To increase the quality of created images it is highly recommended to do Factory Calibration of your AXIOM Beta first.

1.2 Compile raw2dng inside AXIOM Beta

1. acquire the source files from https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/misc-tools-utilities/tree/master/raw2dng
2. copy files to AXIOM Beta
3. run "make" inside camera

1.3 Install dcraw inside AXIOM Beta

pacman -Sy
pacman -S dcraw

1.4 Picture Snapping script

Download https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/beta-software/blob/master/beta-scripts/picture_snap.sh to camera

make it executeable:

chmod +x picture_snap.sh

2 Operation

picture snaps are saved in subfolders in the cameras /opt/picture-snap/ directory

The script automatically names each subfolder and image by a timestamp: %Y%m%d_%H%M%S

Execute the image snapping by providing the exposure time running eg.:

./picture_snap.sh 20ms

One complete capture process plus DNG & JPG conversion takes 18 seconds currently.