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README: set up and use a still camera (a6600), framing, battery, scan-check - #167

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Brings the README's setup and usage guide in line with what was built and learned on the rig on 2026-10-03/04. Docs only.

  • Hardware: a new "Still camera (Sony a6600)" subsection: body settings (PC Remote, USB charging off, M, fixed ISO, JPEG, Creative Style Standard, Long Exposure NR off), dummy battery for long sessions, connect order and the "Connecting" fix, no remote zoom. gphoto2 added to prerequisites.
  • Using it: one output window (the takeover notice, Scan's reason naming the display); step 3 now covers Check exposure (good / too dark / clipping / ISO Auto), what the app sets and gives back (aperture menu, default f/8), battery note at 20% and Scan disabled at 10%, and Check framing. HDR on a still camera uses its own bracketing.
  • Effects: Edge glow's Smoothing (0 to 2, default 1); scanEdgeAt row now names the optional smoothing role.
  • Troubleshooting: rows for the still camera's error messages and the output-window takeover; updated message text for two existing rows.
  • Development: make scan-check, the room2 (a6600) fixture, roadmap note for Real-rig validation: scan-check, fixture, detection tuning #15.

Every statement was checked against the code (engine/still_camera.py, engine/scan_camera.py, engine/hub.py, engine/framing.py, frontend/src/editor/cameraPanel.ts, frontend/src/effects/edgeglow.ts, scripts/scan_check.py). make spelling passes (run with pipx --backend pip, since the local uv is too old for pipx's default backend).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XGS7UUxZFhvaK4bnErEfvW

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Covers what was built and learned on the rig on 2026-10-03/04: the a6600
over USB (body settings, connect order, Check exposure, what the app sets
and gives back, bracketing for HDR, no remote zoom), Check framing, the
battery note and Scan cutoff, Edge glow's Smoothing, one output window,
make scan-check and the room2 fixture, plus matching troubleshooting rows.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XGS7UUxZFhvaK4bnErEfvW
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Skeyelab force-pushed the docs/setup-guide-a6600 branch from 925b735 to 4e288f1 Compare October 4, 2026 12:36
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Skeyelab merged commit e8c8969 into main Oct 4, 2026
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