photography

Pi pan-tilt for huge images, part 3: ArduCam & raw images

2016-10-12

This is the third part in this series, continuing on from part 1 and part 2. The last post was about integrating the hardware with Hugin and PanoTools. This one is similarly technical, and without any pretty pictures (really, it has no concern at all for aesthetics), so be forewarned.…more

Pi pan-tilt for huge images, part 2: Hugin & PanoTools integration

2016-10-04

In my last post I introduced some of the project I’ve been working on. This post is a little more technical; if you don’t care, and just want to see a 91 megapixel image from inside Hive13, skip to the end.…more

Pi pan-tilt for huge images, part 1: introduction

2016-09-25

Earlier this year I was turning around ideas in my head - perhaps inspired by Dr. Essa’s excellent class, CS6475: Computational Photography - about the possibility of making an inexpensive, relatively turn-key rig for creating very high-detail photographs, ideally in HDR, and taking advantage of algorithms, automation, and redundancy to work with cheap optics and cheap sensors.…more

2009.06.19

2009-06-23

apps,photography So, I’m on a quest to find a photo organization tool for Linux (or, on a later note, for any OS) that does some things like… Allow me to apply metadata to images, like comments and groups and tags (preferably hierarchical) Store the metadata IN THE ACTUAL IMAGE, IN A STANDARD FORMAT. This also means it will probably need to support IPTC or XMP, preferably XMP.…more

2009.06.18

2009-06-23

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2009.06.15

2009-06-23

video,apps MediaCoder - “a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution.” Only natively works on Windows, but came in handy trying to re-encode some video at work after I found that fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ liked to either crash or screw up the encode (on Windows at least as I know I’ve used it without problems on Linux) CamStudio - An open source screen recorder (screencast?…more

2009.06.14

2009-06-15

log Well, after my computer exploded and my hard drive became an orphan, I finally built a working computer again and fixed up my scripts so they didn’t suck. Now I shall attempt to post the giant piles of stuff that have accumulated. diy,links The Repair Manifesto from Platform 21 - worth thinking about. motivational,practical Twelve Steps to Practical Problem Solving by Paul Polak No Nonsense Self-Defense - This is a helpful site.…more