"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
A couple of people on my twitter feed yesterday (aside: I tweet using @brainwagon, and passed 5000 tweets yesterday) had questions about how this light field camera worked, how fast the sensor was, how long it takes to acquire the image, etc… While this is the first Lytro camera I’ve ever had the time to […]
I like it when my life’s experience and interests toss me an opportunity, and out of the blue last week I received an invitation to help with a class a colleague is trying to put together to help people build their own cameras, and he wondered if I could give an hour or so introduction […]
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I move my pretty useless blog to Hugo about 7 years ago, since I got frustrated at too many security…