Elphel

Elphel, Inc. designs and manufactures open hardware and free software cameras.^[1][2] The company was founded in 2001 by Russian physicist Andrey Filippov, who emigrated to the US in 1995.^[3]

NC393 multisensor camera kit, for developers

Elphel model 353 with internal HDD

Elphel cameras have been used to capture images for Google Street View^[4] and the Google Books project.^[5] The Moss Landing Marine Laboratories use Elphel cameras in their project called Submersible Capable of Under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) – an NSF-funded research project for robotic under the sea ice for surveying and exploration in Antarctica.^[6]

See also

• AXIOM, an open source hardware 4K digital cinema camera