PTM2: Public directories

Public directories

This is a part of the collection of my tools to make ends meet here in University of Turku
Please inform me, if you find something commercial or unmoral here.

You allways better to download the material from the original sites. This site is no mirror !
PTMUSTA at UTU.FI

 Name                    Last modified       Size  Description

 Parent Directory        15-Aug-2008 13:11      -  
 P10228609.jpg           15-Aug-2008 13:11    18k  
 espion_Mini.pdf         15-Aug-2008 13:11   934k  
 espion_Mini_II.pdf      15-Aug-2008 13:11   104k  
 espiona.jpg             15-Aug-2008 13:11    32k  
 lespion.pdf             15-Aug-2008 13:11   372k  
 miniII.exe              15-Aug-2008 13:11   3.6M  
 minimars.exe            15-Aug-2008 13:11   3.0M  
 minist.exe              15-Aug-2008 13:11   2.0M

The device in pictures is l'espion miniII
files minimars (f2.4) and minists (f=3.9) differs a bit.

A couble of years ago I bought a Mini Digital Camera somewhere with some name. I used it for a month or two and then lost it to the endless dark spots of my table. One of the best pictures can be found at the bottom of my official home page. You can see that in optimal lights you can get rather nice pictures ;) Still the lense is small and pressed of acryl and you can't wait much of it.

In any case I would not recommend this kind of cameras to serious work or even party cameras, because they have a serious lack of sensitivity. Still they have a niche of their own. Some sunny day I might take the device apart and change the original lense to something better. Even the bottom of a beer bottle might make better pictures.

One funny thing is that if you install this miniII to WinXP, you can find in MyComputer a line 'Dual-Mode DSC(2770) #2' (DSC = Digital Still Camera ?). If you click it, you get a moving picture. I have not managed to get a similar with any other camera or scanner.
Allthough you get here a moving picture, I have not managed to make it work with Skype or MSM.

Last week I found the device but not papers, packages or CDs. So it was as useless as any piese of electronics nowadays. Still I wanted to make some tries with it and found the drivers in the network from DigitalDream.
It seems that this camera has been sold with endles variety of names like l'espiona, Innovage, 'Smart Mini Digital Camera', 'Mini Digi Cam'.... It seems that this cute small thing comes from some of the counless Chinese manufacturers.

From China I found these specifications:

Image sensor:100K pixel CMOS sensor
Internal memory:16Mbit built-in SDRAM
Modes:- Digital Video Recording (no sound)- Still Photos- PC Camera
Resolution:-352x288(cif) -176x144 (qcif)
File Formats:24-bit JPEG /BMP
Storage capacity:-CIF 20 images -QCIF 80 images -AVI: 17 second (176x144)
Status display: Two Digit"88"Monochrome LCD Display
Interface: USB
Shutter Speed: 1/4 ~ 1/10000 second
Video Frame Rate: 5 fps (CIF)8 fps (QCIF)
Lens:Fixed; f = 6.8mm
Focus: settings: 30cm ~ infinity (Normal)
Aperture: F3.5
Power Source: 1 x AAA alkaline battery / USB power
Power control: Auto power off after 20 seconds without operation/ manual power on&off
Self timer: 10 seconds
Viewfinder: Built-in
Auto off system time:leisure 20 second; low voltage alarm:Auto
Dimensions: 5.9cm (w) x4.0cm (h) x 1.4cm (t)
Weight: 38g (absence battery)
PC Demand Specificaton: CPU: Pentium III 800MHz and upper, OS:Windows 98/2000/ME/XP, Mem:128 MB and upper Memory, Disk Space;At least 80MB space free, CD-ROM Drive
Output: USB port
Power :1 AAA BATTERY

Inform me, if there is something that should'nt be here