Category Archives: Technology

Talking of Gearlust…

By domi | Published: 2007-12-19

This is “sensible” gearlust though! Still waiting for these to be available in Europe for something like a reasonable price. UK: £350 (c. $700!) when it’s under $500 across the pond.

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Gearlust again: Wacom Cintiq 12WX

By domi | Published: 2007-12-19

Of course, there’s always been gearlust for the big Cintiq, but this puts it tantalisingly close. Pretty cool for playing Hordes of Orcs as well, no doubt. Ahem… [Update: Gizmodo has a video review of it, heaping praise, and ramping up the lust!]

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Dual Photography

By domi | Published: 2005-05-11

Some bright folk, mainly from Stanford University (one from Cornell), have demonstrated a technique to produce photographic images without the use of a camera. The technique exploits Helmholtz reciprocity to allow an image to be recreated from the point of view of the projector that’s lighting the scene, even though there’s no camera at that [...]

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Nikon being idiotic, Adobe being hilarious

By domi | Published: 2005-04-19

PhotoshopNews.com has a story about Nikon’s frankly stupid idea to encrypt (yes, encrypt) the white balance data in their NEF file format. No comment, really. What I find really funny is that Adobe is worried about breaking the DMCA to reverse-engineer the format. Send ‘em all to gaol (that’s “jail”, for the non-English readers) for [...]

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Canon Technology Library

By domi | Published: 2005-02-25

If you want to get right down to the nitty gritty (as a great man once said) regarding digital camera technology, you really need to check out Canon’s Technology Library. This microsite (although I hesitate to use the term “micro”) has a whole stack of information on everything Canon from DIGIC, to CMOS versus CCD, [...]