Hi,

I would like to read your suggestions for a camera for a pda running
windows mobile 5.0. A while ago I was looking for a suitable one and at
that time I was unable to find one. But at this moment I am still not able
to find one...

Does anyone have a suggestion? I would like to use a Dell (-like) Axim,
with fast processor and hires display for artoolkitplus experiments.

thanks a lot
bye
Raymond

hi Raymond,

we looked at quite a lot of cameras attachable to Windows CE PDAs
(stopped doing so a year ago) and none of them was really good. at the
end we used the Spectec SD camera which does not have a good image
quality, but at least it is very fast (15fps at 320x240 with little CPU
usage). there are drivers for WM2003 as well as WM2005 (not DirectShow) it.

i generally recommend using PDAs with built-in cameras because any
built-in camera i saw so far had better quality than any attachable one
i saw. if the PDA runs WM2005 you have a good chance that the camera is
accessible via DirectShow. otherwise you'll need to get a proprietary
SDK from the PDA creator (which usually is rather difficult...).

i'm keeping a list of Smartphones running Windows Mobile which are
suitable for AR:
http://www.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/Members/daniel/Smartphones
maybe this can guide you to a good device...

bye,
Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Thank you very much for this wonderful overview! I have seen the same
things about the attachable cameras, unfortunately. Somehow there seems no
market for the combination pda + separate camera, the dell would do so
nice.

Indeed I want to develop a directshow graph, you're right.

thanks again, best regards
Raymond


> hi Raymond,
>
> we looked at quite a lot of cameras attachable to Windows CE PDAs
> (stopped doing so a year ago) and none of them was really good. at the
> end we used the Spectec SD camera which does not have a good image
> quality, but at least it is very fast (15fps at 320x240 with little CPU
> usage). there are drivers for WM2003 as well as WM2005 (not DirectShow)
> it.
>
> i generally recommend using PDAs with built-in cameras because any
> built-in camera i saw so far had better quality than any attachable one
> i saw. if the PDA runs WM2005 you have a good chance that the camera is
> accessible via DirectShow. otherwise you'll need to get a proprietary
> SDK from the PDA creator (which usually is rather difficult...).
>
> i'm keeping a list of Smartphones running Windows Mobile which are
> suitable for AR:
> http://www.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/Members/daniel/Smartphones
> maybe this can guide you to a good device...
>
> bye,
> Daniel
>
>