As more and more of us get used to taking photos with digital cameras, it's easy to forget that many computing components, and software, are housed in them, and in the cell phones that many people use to snap pictures. Where there are computing components and software, there is also room for hacking, and for open source camera customization. On that last front, Stanford scientists
are at work on an open source Frankencamera, an open platform that will first be available at minimal cost to computational photography researchers, but could eventually allow anyone to customize camera features. You can watch a video of Stanford professor Mark Levoy demonstrating how Frankencamera
improves on standard digital photos here. Will photo enthusiasts go for this?
