Welcome back to the world of apertus°.

... Home of FOSS, open hardware, professional digital cinema and imaging tools.

If you're unfamiliar with the project then AXIOM Beta is the first cinema camera built around FOSS licenses. Other hardware devices such as AXIOM Remote and software like the RAW processing suite OpenCine are also being developed alongside. All software and hardware are made open source and open hardware.

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Curved CMV12000

A new team has been added to the camera’s case studies page. Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille have created a 20 Megapixel, full-frame, curved image sensor - the first of its kind.

AXIOM Beta was used to conduct research, development and testing throughout, and the sensor was showcased at the 2019 SPIE Photonics West optical conference in San Francisco. Reading more about why this is significant at:

apertus° Wiki: Case Studies

Production

Preliminary meetings with respect to mass production runs of the AXIOM Beta hardware were undertaken across January. Things are still in the planning stage so there’s nothing definite to report but both parties (apertus/Tele) are happy with the potential for collaboration at this point. If you’re unsure what this means we showcased their facilities and the factory hub where our current office resides in Team Talk 14.1.

apertus° Labs: AXIOM Team Talk 14.1.

Abandoning Facebook

After careful consideration we’ve decided to abandon promotion across Facebook and, instead, promote more privacy aware and open alternatives. A full account of the reasons why has been documented here:

Article: Abandoning Facebook

Google Summer of Code 2019

We've just completed the Google’s Summer of Code 2019 organisation application process and should be notified on the 26th of February if we are going to be part of the program again this year. If you're interested in participating as a student then feel free to take a look at the following links:

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If you're looking for a task to get into AXIOM Beta development you might consider the following a good starting point (we're happy to support you on getting started and answer any questions - get in touch with us):

Lens Mount Shimming

We started defining and evaluating the process of shimming our lens mount. There are still a few unknowns though - like if photography lenses are actually manufactured accurately enough to benefit from shimming at all or if it's something only expensive PL mount lenses require. If you're knowledgeable about this or if you have an opinion or ideas please get in touch.

apertus° Labs: Task 1132

Functional emulation of the AXIOM Beta hardware in QEMU

We want to develop a QEMU based system to emulate the hardware in the AXIOM Beta in software meaning we can boot and test the firmware running on the camera on any PC. The task is to extend the Xilinx branch of QEMU to support AXIOM Beta hardware and setup in a way which allows to run and test the existing Kernel and Userspace without AXIOM Beta hardware. If this is something you can help with head on to read more in the apertus° Lab.

apertus° Labs: Task 724

AXIOM Remote: miscellaneous drawing and management tasks

We collected quite a few small tasks that are waiting for love from contributors related to the GUI on the AXIOM Remote. As mentioned above with the help of the AXIOM Remote visualizer this development can now be done independent of the actual hardware and will provide immediate graphical feedback.

apertus° Labs: Task 1126