A 35mm film camera represented in Python object

[Eli the Bearded]

In comp.lang.python,
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address at apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:
> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
>> I see you don't even attempt to tackle ISO outside of
>> supported range (and I have no idea how the camera itself deals with
>> that). Is the camera sensing the ISO from the film roll (so won't work
>> with hand rolled film cartridges)? Is there a setting on the camera to
>> manually specify that? (I don't think so.)
> The camera's film speed setting (it's old enough that it's ASA rather
> than ISO) is set manually. If you try to set an illegal value, there's a
> setter decorator that raises a NonExistentFilmSpeed exception.

I can see what the code does, I'm asking what the camera does and do you
plan to work that into your code? Maybe it only works for ISO 1600 in
manual mode, but works.

> I have to add a button and winder lever to the camera object itself, I'm
> doing those things bit by bit.

Gotcha.

> Yes, it would be fun to allow it to "take a picture" of an image file,
> and process the result. Or ultimately built into a web application using
> somehting like https://anvil.works and have take a real picture with a
> user's webcam.

Yes, that sounds like good future work.

Elijah
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