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bostwickenator 
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 Posted: 06 November 2018 at 14:42 |
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Hey rokaka I actually run LEX Optical where I'm building an E mount camera from scratch. Possibly we can leverage the coverage we got in Make: and around the web to bring in more contributors for this project. Honestly I think given another week or two I'll be at the point where I can build an AF lens. Personally I want to get to that line before I try and get publicity and open source the code.
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Entropy512
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Posted: 07 November 2018 at 23:04 |
BTW, are you using the Arduino environment with the Teensy or straight GCC? |
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rokaka
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Posted: 08 November 2018 at 09:41 |
WOW. Super cool!!!!! Kudos to your work man, awesome! |
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bostwickenator
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Posted: 08 December 2018 at 16:36 |
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Entropy512
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Posted: 08 December 2018 at 17:06 |
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Nice!
Sorry I haven't done much as far as data collection or further analysis lately... November was hectic and I've been dealing with sinusitis since Thanksgiving. Hopefully I'll have more time to come back to this after the new year. |
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rokaka
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Posted: 05 January 2019 at 16:28 |
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Happy New Year everyone! Any developments recently?
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Zachariah
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Posted: 08 March 2019 at 16:55 |
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Hello,
I'm a sony a7ii owner and I'm currently thinking about building a AF ring near the LM-EA7 from techart but with a better motorisation. I though suck at programming. I found the firmware adresses for the LM-EA7 in the android apk to upgrade it. This may help you guys on your research for e-mount reverse engineering and also talk about the mistakes that may have been done on this ring. LM-EA7,Firmware for LM-EA7 Ver6.0.0 20180105,http://www.techart-logic.com/g-nex3/firmware/lm-ea7/m-nex180105.bin ,38603 LM-EA7,Firmware for LM-EA7 Ver5.0.0 20170214,http://www.techart-logic.com/g-nex3/firmware/lm-ea7/m-nex170511.bin ,42745 LM-EA7,Firmware for LM-EA7 Ver4.0.0 20160905,http://www.techart-logic.com/g-nex3/firmware/lm-ea7/m-nex160905.bin ,7942 LM-EA7,Firmware for LM-EA7 Ver3.0.0 20160626,http://www.techart-logic.com/g-nex3/firmware/lm-ea7/m-nex160626.bin ,36800 LM-EA7,Firmware for LM-EA7 Ver2.0.0 20160415,http://www.techart-logic.com/g-nex3/firmware/lm-ea7/m-nex160415.bin ,51154 LM-EA7,Firmware for LM-EA7 Ver1.0.0 20160320,http://www.techart-logic.com/g-nex3/firmware/lm-ea7/m-nex160320.bin,8519 |
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cocciasik
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Posted: 21 March 2019 at 09:25 |
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Wow, you guys rock!
I do have programming skills (today mainly Java but I used to work with embedded systems where I used C++ and ARM assembly in the past). I also have some electronics background and I played with Arduino a few times. However, no experience with reverse engineering of code. My dream is to patch the firmware of LA-EA4 in order to use OSPDAF like an A99II! There are too many excellent screw-driven lenses out there from Sony/Minolta that will shine on newer E-mount cameras... I have a large collection of E-mount and A-mount lenses -- about 100. If you believe I can be of any support, just ping me! For instance, capturing the communication between camera body and lenses and creating a DB for you to analyze? Or whatever you can think of. I have limited spare time, but I can definitely allocate some of it to this project! |
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SQLGuy
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Posted: 19 April 2019 at 18:48 |
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Hi guys,
I'm interested in doing some custom adapter work, too. I mentioned a bit of this on the DPReview Adapted Lenses forum recently: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4384917 I'm a mainly Java developer these days, but I have a fair amount of C experience, among other things, and experience with Cypress PSoC MCU development. Just wondering if there are any, preferably inexpensive, adapters whose firmware is available - either because the MCU isn't locked or because it's been released elsewhere. It would be a convenient way to prototype my stuff if I could take an EF-E adapter, remove the EF side of things, and modify the firmware to leverage E mount protocol support that's already there. Thanks, Paul |
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rokaka
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Posted: 20 April 2019 at 11:00 |
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I already asked Viltrox a while ago if they wouldn't be interested in open-sourcing their firmware. I would imagine that a whole lot more adapters would be sold if there would be alternative firmware for it, of if people could add functionality/make changes themselves.
Maybe if everyone asks Viltrox ( info@jyc-hk.com ) it will happen..? |
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addy landzaat
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Posted: 20 April 2019 at 12:11 |
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Interesting thought, could be a good move for Viltrox, however, they may have an agreement with Sony (who shares the E-mount protocol with partners) that forbids them of sharing certain information that is in the firmware of their adapters. Did they reply to your question at all?
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Leegong
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Posted: 25 April 2019 at 07:38 |
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I believe that reversing TAMRON A036 Lens Firmware will reveal
lots of secrets of E-mount protoccol , After disassembling A036 firmware with IDA PRO , i located all messages communicating between A036 and camera in A036 firmware, however the MCU model Number in A036 is unknown , so noway to understand the meaning of those messages . Could anybody take a picture of A036 MCU on the motherboard ? maybe there is silkmark on the MCU chip . Edited by Leegong - 25 April 2019 at 07:51 |
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bostwickenator
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Posted: 24 May 2019 at 00:15 |
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Hey Leegong I don't have a A036 yet but I'm glacing through the firmware, have you had any luck getting further with ida? I enjoy this string ROM:0005B43C Welcome to AA036SF ADJUST MODE!!(*^0^*)\r\n I guess it's built on Windows from the machine name ROM:0005F7D0 Akimoto-PC. Drop me an email if you get a chance. Entropy512 has my details.
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Leegong
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Posted: 30 May 2019 at 10:39 |
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Hi , bostwickenator ,
Sorry for the late reply. ROM 05B84C is struc of L2B01 Message , which is the first Lens response when camera sends the first command after body power on . ROM 0x5B870 is struc of L2B07 ROM 0x59EBC is struc of L2B08 ...... Leegong |
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