photography

Someone, please, standardize gamma

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

This an open complaint to every PC maker on the planet: get over it already.
I know that there are historical reasons for this nonsense. Decisions had to be made decades ago, and the mess of RGB, VGA, sVGA, etc. complicated things. Plotting RBG values in a VGA space is difficult, and people don’t agree […]

In which our hero munges a CF card

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Last week, I did something stupid (an unfortunately frequent occurrence). I was going through my digital camera trying to free up some space on the card and, so I *thought*, protecting the pictures I wanted to keep or hadn’t uploaded yet. When I hit delete, and confirmed that yes, I was absolutely sure I […]