Month: January 2022
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Cashless Society
In recent weeks I have noticed several articles touching on the increase in alcohol consumption. An emerging trend brought on by the pandemic? In his April 7th, 2020 article, The Pandemic Will Accelerate History Rather Than Reshape It; Not Every Crisis Is a Turning Point, Richard Haass argued against the then prevailing view “that the…
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Technology Improvements
in: Photography
These are some thoughts on the progress of the image capture technologies (e.g., film, and digital sensors, metering, etc.) that has occurred within my life time. My second camera was a Minolta range finder, using 35mm film. In the early 1970s, my grandfather gave me his Rolleiflex, which was manufactured in about 1946 (based on…
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Pixel Shifting
in: Photography
Pixel shift is a method in digital cameras for producing a super resolution image. The method works by taking several images, after each such capture moving (“shifting”) the sensor to a new position. In digital colour cameras that employ pixel shift, this avoids a major limitation inherent in using Bayer pattern for obtaining colour, and…
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The Pandemic: 2 Years Later
We are approaching 2 years. In a post from October 2020, eight months into the pandemic, a time before there was a vaccine, a time when we were still learning about this virus, the death toll for the coming few months was estimated to reach 200,000 in the US. At the time, the US Administration…
