Tag Archives: software

up, up, and away

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. After minicams became common, time and effort was spent to create developers that would reduce film grain and provided finer detail so negatives could be enlarged more without resulting in so called ’empty magnification’. A similar situation in digital … Continue reading →

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all that noise

Posted on February 26, 2023 by Robert

Toronto. One of the short comings of digital images is that they are a bit noisy (especially in poor light or with a high ISO setting). To that end, I had a program at one point that removed noise and … Continue reading →

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PHSC News newsletter for May 2020

Posted on May 16, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. Our latest issue of PHSC News in pdf format was released yesterday by our inspired editor Sonja Pushchak and her team in this trying time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Page 1 offers “World Pressure”; page 2 covers  a virtual presentation … Continue reading →

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words, words, words

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. I put our first website online over two decades ago on April, 1996. A few years ago, in 2006 or 7, I began an investigation of means to simplify maintenance and updates to our web site so it would … Continue reading →

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Innovation and computational zoom

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Robert

Toronto. My thanks to my good friend Russ Forfar for bringing PetaPixel’s report on computational zoom to my attention. First we could correct colour balance, exposure, and contrast in an image. A zoom lens lets us fill the frame with only … Continue reading →

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Where have all the flowers gone?

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Robert

Toronto. When Aperture was released by Apple, I still used Windows and was envious of the capabilities of this product. I was recently reminded that Aperture development will end shortly (fall 2014) and the product will phase out next year … Continue reading →

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