Sounded like a logical thing to do, and we thought of that as well. There were really two reasons: The "dumb" one was "Corporate Standards" which always seemed to serve as a method to ensure the worst possible product was forced upon everyone. I could have worked around that with a bit of political effort.

The bigger reason, though, was that the code was written targeting specific vendor APIs. Other cameras simply weren't compatible with that code and it would have been a bigger nightmare working that out, unfortunately.