Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George Day wrote.... seemingly sarcastic! >>> Neat. But can he take pictures...<<<<< Excuse me George, the chap you've made your seemingly smart ass comment on after he explained what he did in the world of electronics production... is not only a highly respected digital designing person as you can see by his post. He's also a well published photographer ... at least a half dozen books I have in my collection, if not more. So to answer your question... >>> Neat. But can he take pictures...<<<< I suppose the only way to answer your question in a manner you might understand is: "You bet your sweet ass he can and does!" ted hew also a very skilled and talented photographer who well published and has Actually it's only one of the things he does in the real world as the other is shoot and produce > Neat. But can he take pictures...<<<<<, Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Day" <george@rdcinteractive.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital stuff > > on 11/5/01 4:04 PM, Jim Brick at jim@brick.org wrote: > > > I apologize to everyone for speaking out about the > > semiconductor/sensor/digital photography field. You are all correct. I > > don't know very much about it. You certainly know more than I therefore I > > will bow out of the discussion. > > > > I started to write a paper explaining where we are and where we are headed, > > but it became obvious that no one is interested in hearing about the > > technology and where it is headed (and why) so I shelved it. Just as well > > as I have real work to do. > > > > Maybe another day. > > > > Just for the record, I write the firmware that goes inside digital imaging > > instruments. Cameras, phones, PDA's, mice, etc. My firmware controls the > > imaging chip(s) and associated sensor(s). My colleague in the next cubicle > > (Dan Simms) writes algorithms that do all of the outside work. > > Interpolation, color space conversion, sharpening, attempted noise > > cancellation, etc... He makes a silk purse (your final JPEG digital file) > > from a sow's ear (the raw pixels streaming in from my stuff.) > > > > Since we cannot make pixels any smaller, another technology has to come > > forth. Hummm... maybe a marriage of two technologies. > > > > http://www.asf.com/products/pic/ > > > > > > Jim Brick > > Senior Scientist > > Agilent Technologies > > Imaging Electronics Division > > Semiconductor Products Group > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html