Hi Manuel,
It seems that "classic photography + hardcore linux-ing" is not that
uncommon here: well, sort of, as we're at least in two matching that
profile! :)
All my negatives / slides / prints scan and postprocessing is done on a
Gentoo Linux box: apart from having 8 bits per channel when postprocessing
images with GIMP, I don't feel I'm missing that much...
A friend of mine has come up with almost the same thing as your photo timer,
but in Windows flavour. Can't recall where the download URL is but ASAP I'll
let you know.
Honestly, though, I don't think that a photo timer operating on a PC is very
likely to be used in a darkroom: if it can be run on a hand-held machine
(palm and the likes) it will definitely be more useful... Nokia is selling a
delightfulm tablet PC running Linux on an ARM processor: don't recall if it
can run KDE or a lighter desktop environment, if so your software won't be
that difficult to adapt...
Going back to your photo timer, if you need any kind of help (testing,
translations etc.) drop me a mail.
Meanwhile, congratulations for your work!
Ciao!
Fabio
On 11/8/06, Manuel Viet <oly@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been toying for a couple of days with a project I had for some times
> before, but never got into. Basically, it's a timer suited to film
> processing. Pictures being worth a hundred words, see :
>
> http://perso.orange.fr/m-viet/timer_stop.jpg
> http://perso.orange.fr/m-viet/timer_run.jpg
>
> It runs on Linux in KDE, an was programmed in a basic dialect called
> GAMBAS
> (much like VB6, just better). It's mostly functional, just missing the log
> part and the calculator to convert good metric datas into strange US units
> (the shaded parts of the UI in the _stop picture ; shaded parts in the
> _run
> are ergonomy related, to prevent the user nagging the timer while
> computing).
>
> While I know classic photography + hardcore linuxian is an uncommon
> profile, I
> was wondering if anyone here would have an interest into the project
> (testing, verifying translations - documentation, or anything else). If
> so,
> let me know and I'll come back to you once this project will be officially
> released (I've been asking for a sourceforge hosting).
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
> --
> Manuel Viet
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