On Jan 25, 2008 12:13 PM, B. Bogart <ben@ekran.org> wrote:
I and a few other media artists use the "elmo" PTC100, its cheaper than
the canon's I was looking at the time.

The Sony is HD with a handy HD-SDI connector for long cable runs.  I don't particularly like Sony or their products, but this seems to be the only option in the prices range (JVC and Panny have some that are up to 10x the cost).
 
I have an abstraction in the CVS for controlling it (uses comport and py
to do the parsing/communications) Works with the USB-rs232 adapter I used.

If you end up getting the Sony it would be great to add an object to the
ptz-camera collection. The infrastructure is there to give any command,
and get back messages from any of 4 in a daisy chain, just not ll the
details are implemented.

I would like to just make some abstractions for the control. I will take a look at your abstraction.

Thanks
Chris