Micromaxx Pencam
I bought this camera for 100 DM at a branch of the PLUS supermarket chain here
in Erlangen out of impulse.
There already was a driver in gphoto2, but it was suboptimal. I enhanced the
driver, disassembled the windows driver and added lacking features to gphoto2.
- Uses the generic stv0680 chipset.
- Uses 2 AAA batteries. Since it has SDRAM, there is a continuing drain on the batteries. If you remove the batteries, the images are lost instantly.
- 352x288 resolution (CIF), CCD with 422 bayer array.
- The driver needs to do lots of postprocessing of the image, which is not
trivial.
- The gphoto2 driver stv0680 is complete, except sometimes the postprocessing might
be better.
Sample image:
