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3. Image Sources > The Local Camera Revisited
The Local Camera Revisited
We first looked at working with a locally connected camera in the “Hello World” program in Chapter 2. For reference, here is that program again:
from SimpleCV import Camera, Display, Image # Initialize the camera cam = Camera() # Initialize the display display = Display() # Snap a picture using the camera img = cam.getImage() # Show the picture on the screen img.save(display)
The salient points to remember here are:
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To work with a locally connected camera, first import the
Cameraclass -
Then use the
Camera()constructor to initialize a camera object
