[cpia] CPiA 0.7.2 & Zoomtel camera: Colour balance strangene

[rich@annexia.org]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:10:23AM +0100, Peter Pregler wrote:
> I have done short tests with the M$-driver and the 0.7.2 driver (parport,
> kernerl-2.2.14) under low-light conditions. Under M$ the behavior is
> pretty strange. In the beginning the picture is very dark and very
> reddish. After a few seconds it does a snap and from one frame to the next
> it is much brighter. Apparently some correction is triggered. After that
> it settles down close to the same as the linux result. But the end-result
> is still way too redish (see my web-page, url in the signature). So my
> wild guess is that this is a more fundamental problem with the
> color-correction firmware of the CPiA. Can you post your version
> information? I have also seen people posting CPiA-versions
> 1.30. Mine is:
> 
>   CPiA Version: 1.20 (2.0)
>   CPiA PnP-ID: 0553:0002:0100
>   VP-Version: 1.0 0100

I've not used the Windows drivers (don't have Windows), so
I can't comment on whether or not the camera works under Windows
or not. Anyway, here's my version numbers:

Feb 29 20:03:51 arctor kernel: USB CPiA camera found 
Feb 29 20:03:52 arctor kernel:   CPiA Version: 1.30 (2.10) 
Feb 29 20:03:52 arctor kernel:   CPiA PnP-ID: 0553:0002:0100 
Feb 29 20:03:52 arctor kernel:   VP-Version: 1.0 0100 

(It's a brand new camera). Is there a way to upgrade the
firmware on these cameras?

Rich.

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