STANFORD (US)—The open-source digital photography software platform, “Frankencamera,” which allows users to create novel camera capabilities, is available as a free download for Nokia N900 “mobile computers.”

Next week at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles, the Frankencamera engineering team from Stanford University will describe the platform and several sample apps created with it.

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Marc Levoy and Andrew Adams have developed an open-source digital camera. Adams, who helped design the prototype, imagines a future where consumers download applications to their open-platform cameras the way Apple apps are downloaded to iPhones today.

STANFORD (US)—A team of photo scientists is reinventing digital photography with the introduction of an open-source camera. Dubbed “Frankencamera,” the prototype will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks.

If the technology catches on, camera performance will no longer be limited by the software that comes pre-installed by the manufacturer. Virtually all the features of the Stanford University camera—focus, exposure, shutter speed, flash, etc.—are at the command of software that can be created by inspired programmers anywhere.

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