Saturday, December 11, 2010

Much Travelling

The Martian Blog has a new entry.

This one deals with my trips to Great Britain and Tasmania and my use of the EX1 as a traveling camera.

Check It Out.


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Friday, December 10, 2010

What's Wrong With Soccer?

I'm back on my soap box folks. This time I'm diagnosing and solving the problems inherent in the World Game!

Check It Out.


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Monday, August 16, 2010

The Samsung EX1

I've completed my highly technical, pull-no-punches review of my new camera: the Samsung EX1/TL500.

Check It Out.


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Monday, July 26, 2010

Colours that rhyme with purple

A new poem folks.
This one uses 27 impossible rhymes to go with unrhymeable colours, such as orange, purple and beige.

Check It Out.


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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Soap Box is Up

Yes folks, I finally have a general purpose place from which to broadcast my opinions. This will be used for matters that aren't large enough to warrant their own section. I intend to cover a large range of topics but I have begun with just a couple of computer topics.

Check It Out.

Since this new section will require an RSS feed and since it would be silly for my site to have 3 or more feeds I have to decided to consolidate my feeds into one: this one! My blog specific feed: Martian Misery will be discontinued and deleted and future blog entry notifications will appear here. New soap box content will also be notified here.

All future content additions from all sections will appear here. Got it?

Good!


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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Martian Art Galleries Are Up!

Ever wondered what my paintings and drawings look like? Well now you can find out without having to leave your computer.

I've created and uploaded my Visual Art section, which comprises a set of galleries of my best works as well as a theory section which will soon house my famous Colour Wheel!

Check It Out.


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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Camera Diatribe Rewritten!

Well it turned out that I made a number of incorrect assumptions in my previous analysis of the Physics of Cameras. I admit that I was wrong on a number of points and I apologise for my errors. The main thrust of my analysis, detailing the effect of Poisson Aliasing on camera behaviour remains correct but some assumptions I made with respect to aperture, maximum electron count and Bayer interpolation were well wide of the mark, resulting in some numbers that were out of the ballpark.

Thanks to the folks at Luminous Landscape forums, who alerted me to my errors, I have rejigged the whole diatribe and this time I have actually proved my results with real output from a range of real cameras.

Along the way I had to derive an optical formula from first principles, setup and solve an equation in double integrals and write a diagnostic app in "C".

For Science Geeks Only!.


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