Lippmann Colour Photography – AlternativePhotography.com

Source: Lippmann Colour Photography – AlternativePhotography.com TL/DR  – 1) Interesting technical discussion of one of the earliest color photography methods and 2) a great website that covers alternative photography. Mr. Lippmann won a nobel prize for developing a color photography technique in 1908.  He used a interference of light technique where light coming into the glass plate film was also bounced off a mirror behind the plate and thus the image recorded was the resulting combination of incoming light andRead more

Chromostereopsis – Wikipedia

Chromostereopsis – I just learned this word for visual illusions that convey an impression of depth.  Artists have taken advantage of this property for eons.  A discussion on dpreview about depth of field in captured images theorized that chromatic aberration from some lenses helped the perception of depth and even that perhaps humans and other animals have evolved to use chromatic aberration to their advantage.   This information was deployed in to suggest that older less perfect camera lenses may actuallyRead more

The Cool Science Behind Developing Photographic Film

Destin Sandlin does a really great job explaining how film works and is lab developed in this video.  Well worth a watch! Engineer Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day explains the very cool science behind developing rolls of photographic film. This has become a bit of a lost Source: The Cool Science Behind Developing Photographic FilmRead more

Canon hails groundbreaking 1-megapixel SPAD image sensor as the “eye of the future” – DIY Photography

Canon has developed what was everybody thought to be impossible. And while it might not be the highest resolution camera sensor out there, Canon’s new 1-megapixel Single Photon Avalanche Detection (SPAD) sensor offers some huge benefits over more traditional CMOS or CCD sensors. The biggest being that it all but eliminates noise from your images. […] Source: Canon hails groundbreaking 1-megapixel SPAD image sensor as the “eye of the future” – DIY PhotographyRead more