A Geek in Lockdown
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ShinyPhoto: New Website
The old ShinyPhoto website was getting a bit long in the tooth. It saw several versions of Python come and go and increasingly suffered from bitrot. (Notably, a mutual incompatibility in the CGI module between python versions; it ran for so long the backend storage engine I used became deprecated with no easy way out […]
Focus-Stacking with the Fuji X-H1
Initial experiments with focus-stacking on the Fuji X-H1
How Many Megapixels?
There are several cliches in the field of megapixel-count and resolution required for acceptable photographic prints. In no particular order: 300dpi is “fine art” you don’t need as many dpi for larger prints because typically they’re viewed further away my printer claims to do 360dpi or 1440dpi or … 24 megapixels is more than enough […]
Trying something a little different
For years now, my photo-processing workflow has been 100% open-source. However, in the interests of greater portability – hack on photos whilst on the go – and partly gratuitously for the sake of variety, I recently acquired an iPad Pro 10.5″ and installed the Affinity Photo app. As a user experience goes, it’s really quite […]
Pentax K-1: an open-source photo-processing workflow
There is a trope that photography involves taking a single RAW image, hunching over the desktop poking sliders in Lightroom, and publishing one JPEG; if you want less noise you buy noise-reduction software; if you want larger images, you buy upscaling software. It’s not the way I work. I prefer to make the most of […]
Announcing Timelapse.jl – frame interpolation for timelapse photography
A few years ago I wrote a python utility for interpolating a greater number of frames from a smaller set, for use in timelapse video/photography. Recently, I’ve been trying to learn Julia. As a small challenge – to fulfil a potential forthcoming need – and because it claimed to be quite a fast language – […]
Determining the best ZFS compression algorithm for email
Benchmarking the performance of various ZFS compression options on FreeBSD.
Definitions of Geek Antiquity
You know you’ve been a geek a while when…
Old is the new… old, really
Time for a bit of a rant, geek-style. For about 15 months I’ve used a Samsung Galaxy Note as mobile phone of choice. And truth be told, I’ve hated all bar the first 10 minutes of it. The lack of RAM has made me reconsider what apps I use, favouring Seesmic for combined Facebook+Twitter over […]