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Apertus is an open-source hardware project that announced the Axiom Alpha camera project in summer 2012 and wants to realize it with the help of crowdfunding. In summer 2013, the mainboard went into trial production, and the next milestone was reached at the beginning of November: With a CMV12000 sensor from Cmosis communicating with the prototype board, the community created its first RAW images—although they still look wildly chaotic, also because the sensor is a slightly defective model that was discarded due to errors, this is nevertheless an astonishing preliminary result for an open-source project of this kind.
In this video you can see the FPGA floorplan of the Apertus Axiom Alpha:
At this link you will find the first 4K RAW images from the open-source camera, including an error analysis of the recordings.
On the website you can also get a blog overview of the community’s development steps that led to reaching this goal.
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