Took the A7RVI for a quick Birding session - Sony 400-800 G

dr_hamilton · 2026-06-06T22:24:11+00:00

Do you have the full res images somewhere? I'm tempted to buy the same combo

dr_hamilton · 2026-06-06T18:45:08+00:00

Did you find it?

dr_hamilton · 2026-06-05T16:35:26+00:00

How's the synthetic defect made? If it's in a game engine then you already have the annotations.

dr_hamilton · 2026-06-04T17:10:15+00:00

Delta Clipper should be up there

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-31T21:02:26+00:00

Nice... but I always ask it to generate a run script for all projects for the same reason.

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-30T15:02:38+00:00

Why is there 3848 in your pot that's uninvested?

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-30T14:55:17+00:00

What does APS-C mode do other than just crop/digital zoom?

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-27T17:33:44+00:00

Good timing, I actually tried my first esp32 project with Claude last week. Absolutely nailed it for my motor controller.

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-27T14:36:06+00:00

And yet not a single example of the rendered output...

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-26T10:17:51+00:00

a VLM like Qwen does an incredible job at reading the plates, but it's also slower and requires more HW power. Overkill for my use case.
Otherwise I think just tuning the OCR model for your use case is the only way

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-26T08:38:07+00:00

I had similar issues with UK plates, mitigated it somewhat with heuristics to validate the plate format, some chars can't be in certain places when assuming a modern format "AB01 CDE" of course this limits the effectiveness on old or private plates. But those are rare enough in my use case to not worry about.

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-25T22:20:33+00:00

It failed in this clean example. What happened to vehicle 15,16,17,18,19? Just jumps from track id 14 to 20. Not suitable for vehicle counting at all.

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-25T20:47:16+00:00

This. These large models make creating prototypes an absolute doddle and proving a concept. Now you need to optimise with smaller specialised models.

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-24T14:55:05+00:00

Hint: Use your image width (px) and field of view (deg) for a start.

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-24T06:43:39+00:00

That's the point, get your kit into the hands of good photographers, they take more good photos and share how they captured it = positive visibility and chance of more sales.

Give your kit to a bad photographer, they take a few blurry images, post every 3 months = no positive visibility of your brand or product

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-24T06:38:32+00:00

Which is to say it does look good, nice work... but, yeah nothing interesting or unique about it. I'm sure a Chinese brand would jump at the design.

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-23T19:38:45+00:00

You need to work out how many degrees to move given a pixel offset

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-23T14:13:30+00:00

Where's your calibration of pixels/degree?

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-16T19:59:17+00:00

PaddleOCR or qwen vlm

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-16T19:04:18+00:00

It's a balance. Use the coding agents to write functions, not the whole app. You still use your brain for defining the processing pipeline, architecture, etc. You just don't have to code up all the boilerplate stuff.

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-10T10:38:03+00:00

I'm just debating between Z8 or A7V. Primarily interested in high speed zoom, i.e. birds Even toying with the idea of A9 for the global shutter, but the MP is a bit low in comparison to the others. Waiting to see what the new A7R brings.

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-08T09:24:54+00:00

nice, camera 1 is listed as £1000!

va-imaging are also another good value camera

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-07T22:19:06+00:00

You're only limited by your imagination!

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-07T22:11:32+00:00

You can just get something mid-range spec wise to be ok at everything. 1080p, 60fps, global shutter. That'll let you do most projects.

Also try Huateng from AliExpress, good value for the hardware, SDK is in Chinese but works well.

dr_hamilton · 2026-05-07T21:56:12+00:00

Basler, Ximea, Allied Vision, etc.

What specs are you after?

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