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Chronos User Discussion / Re: 2 x Chronos 1.4 cameras and lighting for sale

« on: February 23, 2023, 02:06:20 PM »

I have attached a screen shot this isnt the name I use on this forum as you can see. But I do else where so not sure how its on view here thats all.

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: 2 x Chronos 1.4 cameras and lighting for sale

« on: February 23, 2023, 02:02:38 PM »

The seller on ebay was me. The odd bot posts were just that I'd say.
Hope the lights were useful!

They are great thanks

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: 2 x Chronos 1.4 cameras and lighting for sale

« on: February 23, 2023, 01:48:59 PM »

It was legit I bought the lights off Ebay ! What's odd is its not used my name on this forum on the quote ? not sure where you got that from  Nikon1 but its a bit worrying ?

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Chronos User Discussion / Dragonframe

« on: February 22, 2023, 12:39:22 PM »

Is Anyone using Dragonframe 5 to trigger events while filming?  I have just picked up a used Dmc-16 to control stepper motors and was thinking of using a DMX relay board to control other things like the Chronus shutter, solenoids and pneumatics etc. The motors timeline can be linked to the lights timeline in Dragonframe from what I can see. I'm hoping I will be able to set keyframes to control when things trigger. I was wondering if anyone has done this before I disappear down another software rabbit hole ?
Thanks Joe

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: 2 x Chronos 1.4 cameras and lighting for sale

« on: February 07, 2023, 05:58:55 AM »

Hi I may be interested in the lighting I will have a look on the auction site if its still available ?

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Chronos User Discussion / SSL certificate showing as not safe

« on: January 12, 2023, 12:13:02 PM »

Hi,

 Is anyone else having the probem that the forum is showing as not safe on google browser. Think maybe its the SSL certificate thats the problem ?

thanks Joe

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Chronos User Discussion / Has anyone tried this lens ?

« on: December 29, 2022, 11:10:23 AM »

https://proav.co.uk/laowa-argus-25mm-f-0-95-mft-apo-lens  has anyone tried this lens on their camera it seems quick. want to try it but not sure.

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Procedure for RAM upgrade

« on: December 17, 2022, 12:33:32 PM »

I do understand about removing the cables but didnt feel the need and I dont like removing that type of cable unless I really have to they never seem to go together so well. I put the camera 'sensor' down with the canon lens adapter on so it was flat, I removed the 4 allen bolts on the back moved the back panel down abot 10mm or so removed the top 2 screws on the PCB then moved it back up past the camera 10mm and removed the bottom 2 screws I eased the pcb out with my hand holding the top panel and pcb, I then tipped the panel to the right and popped the RAM out and the new ones in then rebuilt in reverse order. there was plenty of slack on the cable to do this, each to there own I guess. I didnt mean to tell anyone bad practices just how I did it. thanks for the input. 

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Procedure for RAM upgrade

« on: December 17, 2022, 09:14:32 AM »

I have just updated my 2.1 to 32 gig, you can do it without disconection any ribbon cables, just be gentle when removing the 4 screws. I had to reset trigger settings to allow for 11 seconds of recording. Was a bit stressful but all works ok. I used 2 sticks of 16gb memory as above from a levono laptop

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Introduction and showing my open-source workflow

« on: December 08, 2022, 04:27:58 AM »

Thanks for sharing some interesting things there.

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Accessing the live feed of the camera using Python and OpenCV

« on: September 21, 2022, 04:41:10 AM »

I have done a bit with openCV but not with my Chronus, You need to find the IP config for your particular camera. The open frame is because openCV is not talking to the camera. the IP usually contains an IP address and the port you are using . There are 2 main protocols rtsp and http.  rtsp sometimes uses port 554, http uses 80 or 8000 but these can change also there can be user and pass word info like your second example admin admin included if your camera requires them.Then there are different configs on how it reads that information and what number camera it is at the end of the string but these are not always needed. I would be interested in knowing this info too for my camera! If I get a bit of time I will see if I can work it out.

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Is this normal quality for Chronos 2.1?

« on: September 11, 2022, 06:29:36 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP3QTsBgv5w&ab_channel=chrisvanderschaaf

This is also interesting

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Python OpenCV and Chronos

« on: May 19, 2022, 01:38:41 PM »

If you treat the camera as a cctv camera you could live view it I think but I don't think it would be at high frame rate.
Try this code

You will need to pip install the CV2 Opencv library

then

import cv2

cap = cv2.VideoCapture('rtsp://USERNAME:PASSWORD @ IP ADDRESS/1')     

while True:

    #print('About to start the Read command')
    ret, frame = cap.read()
    resized_image = cv2.resize(frame, (800, 550))

    #print('About to show frame of Video.')
    cv2.imshow('capture', resized_image)
    #cv2.imshow("Capturing",frame)
    #print('Running..')

    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()




I've not tried this but will have a look tomorrow if I get chance this should allow you to view the live view on the pc


rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/1  this is an example of the line of code you need to modify to suit your camera
Use q to kill the window

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Post Chronos 2.1 clips here!

« on: April 05, 2022, 04:27:47 PM »

the colour looks really good

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Post Chronos 2.1 clips here!

« on: January 27, 2022, 09:13:17 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKCoA8eEYF0&ab_channel=Josef1



I've not had chance to use the camera for ages only used it a couple of times before that, the output always looked 'flat' somehow and I couldn't get it as I wanted. I packed it away and didn't use it as time was tight.  So today I updated to the latest firmware and I tried out CinemaDG to export the frames and put them together in prem pro. What a difference. I used a 50mm Samyang lens and a couple of LED 300w lights and a Godox S30 to put a pinpoint on the glass. I'm not an expert as you can tell but really enjoyed myself ! Cant wait to do some more filming with it now.