Controling Digital Cameras With A Nintendo DS

HDR Labs’s Open Camera Control project aims to let photographers add new camera abilities to their Digital SLRs.

Their official site explains how the project started:

The OCC project arose from our need to shoot HDR images for film production using Canon cameras. Canon has stubbornly chosen to stick to its standard 3-shot method for bracketing shots – one metered shot and two additional shots one or two stops above and below the metered shot. For texture shooting, it is sometimes necessary to shoot 5,7,9 or even 11 or more stops of bracketing around the metered exposure.

A Nintendo DS acts as the control system, and a custom cable interfaces the DSLR to the controller. The project has already created some apps, including the option to set a timelapse shoot with built-in alarm and using a sound such as a clap to snap a picture.

The system has been used to produce visual effects for Twilight 2, 2012 and Sucker Punch.

Open Camera Control

[via MakeZine]