Hello, everybody, this is Jack from Stoke. I don't know if this is a bit cheeky, but I've only registered to see if somebody can help me with a couple of questions. Any help will be much appreciated.
Right, here it goes: I know absolutely nothing about photography , but I'm toying with the idea of building a book scanner. I still don't know what it will look like exactly, but I will definitely need to use a couple of cameras. The first problem will be battery life: if I use the cameras with AA or AAA batteries, like people normally do, the batteries are going to go flat after only a few hundred shots, and replacing them so often would be a real pain in the backside. Is there any way a digital camera can be run with power from the mains, just like a laptop can?
The second problem would be automatising the shooting. Can a camera be controlled remotely from a PC or any other device (via a USB cable, for example) so that it shoots at regular, preprogrammed time intervals? Or even better, can the shooting be triggered by some type of sensor, optical for example?
Thanks a lot,
Jack
Right, here it goes: I know absolutely nothing about photography , but I'm toying with the idea of building a book scanner. I still don't know what it will look like exactly, but I will definitely need to use a couple of cameras. The first problem will be battery life: if I use the cameras with AA or AAA batteries, like people normally do, the batteries are going to go flat after only a few hundred shots, and replacing them so often would be a real pain in the backside. Is there any way a digital camera can be run with power from the mains, just like a laptop can?
The second problem would be automatising the shooting. Can a camera be controlled remotely from a PC or any other device (via a USB cable, for example) so that it shoots at regular, preprogrammed time intervals? Or even better, can the shooting be triggered by some type of sensor, optical for example?
Thanks a lot,
Jack
