If you are interested in nature photography you have probably had some (bad) experience in taking photos of birds in flight (BIF for the cognoscenti) and you know how difficult it is to focus on them. Continuous focussing, available today in many cameras surely helps but only to a certain …
Read More »Your smartphone as a compass to the stars
I love to look at the heavens and I got a few apps on my iPad that help me identify heavenly objects. Sometimes I try looking with a tele-lens on my digital camera but pointing it to a specific planet or star is quite difficult. There are a number of …
Read More »Are lensless cameras the future?
I wrote a number of posts on computational photography because this is the future of photography, particularly for mass market photography (although computational photography is what is being used today in most scientific image capture, including the impressive image of the black hole we saw last year). There is also …
Read More »Are digital cameras on an extinction path?
The number of photos taken everyday is mind-boggling. And, to tell the truth, no one knows exactly how many. The info I was able to gather on the web varies widely, from 1 trillion to 15 trillion photos taken in 2018, that means between 2.7 to 41 billion photos every …
Read More »Using AI to detect animals eyes
Nature has evolved an impressive variety of eyes, not just in shape but also in characteristics. You may want to take a look at this wonderful article, from where I extracted the photos of a variety of eyes, to “see” what animals can “see”. I found it an amazing and …
Read More »Curved image sensors? Good but late?
A digital camera is harvesting light in front of the lens and takes it to the sensor. Rays bounced from what is in front of the camera come from any direction and are bent by the lenses to hit the image sensor. Those rays that are directed to the edges …
Read More »Digital Transformation – Disruptions II
The second disruption that swept the photographic world was again the result of technology evolution although it was sprinkled with cultural aspects, fuelled by flanking value chains, making this an interesting disruption to analyse. As shown in the graphic produced by the Camera and Imaging Product Association the market of …
Read More »Digital Transformation – Disruptions
The Digital Transformation with its resulting loss of value (it opens up newer value creation opportunities, as well, and I will consider those later) disrupts business affecting incumbent players and opening the doors to new ones. Disruptions can have different roots that may be difficult to pinpoint. Sometimes it may …
Read More »How fast does glass break?
First Winter day (or Summer day if you are down under) and so it is appropriate to “freeze”. Actually, it is not freezing in the way of cold, rather freezing in the way of slowing down something that we probably watched many times but we never actually see what happened …
Read More »My camera and its lenses will get a digital twin pretty soon
I wrote a post some time ago on the shift towards computational photography. Now I stumbled onto an article pointing out what computational photography might bring in the coming decade (we are just a year away!). Computational photography is the way to make use of data collected by the camera …
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