Printers, revisited Usually, we do a holiday newsletter, for which I am the designer, editor, and printer. This year, Betty suggested that I take one of my composite photographs and put it on the front of a more conventional card. I was flattered. It wasn’t easy to find a picture appropriate to a greeting card… [Read More]
A guru writes about multicore programming
A guru speaks on multicore programming About 2 ½ years ago I wrote a fairly pessimistic post about the utility of multicore chips. I read this morning in the July issue of IEEE Spectrum an article by David Patterson a famed computer researcher at UC Berkeley on the same subject. His conclusions are approximately the… [Read More]
They don’t make them like they used to…
…and that’s a good thing. Many years ago, I turned around while I was sitting and pushed a Nikon FM off a bench. It fell about a foot to a stone patio, and the light meter never worked after that. A few years later, my wife set a 35 mm Minox down a little too… [Read More]
Soft proofing
Yesterday, I attended Charles Cramer’s excellent lecture at the Sunset Center. Charlie asked me to say a few words about soft proofing. Some things occurred to me that I would have said had I more time and presence of mind. Fortunately, I have this blog. Soft proofing is visualizing the final hard copy from an… [Read More]
The right camera for low-light photography
In most of the last half of the 20th century, the weapon of choice for low-light candid photography was the 35mm rangefinder camera. There were lots of reasons. The cameras were small and light. The focal-plane shutters were quieter than SLR shutters (except for the tiny number of SLRs with pellicle mirrors), and not much… [Read More]
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