Hi!

[AZD]

At least I only have one! One guy I used to work with actually lost count.

We have that guy, too.

I did learn to use an engine lathe in a community college summer course once though, and my closest friend at work has a 4-axis CNC mill at home. The lathe class ended up being about 50-75% learning to grind our own cutting tools and evaluating the rotini.

Ok, we’re back on the same team. You’re pretty well rounded for an FPGA’er. My brother teaches CNC at the community college tech center so sometimes I can have special parts made. Couldn’t do it myself, I’m just a Systems guy. “Here’s my idea, go make it.”

 

[Vaughn]

Welcome to Photrio!

I am so glad I have no idea what everyone here is writing about...and that somebody does!

 

[Arthurwg]

We of the lesser IQ salute you.

 

[Emily Cook]

We of the lesser IQ salute you.

Don't sell yourself short - I was lucky enough to be born with the "insatiable curiosity" flavor of autism, and to parents with jobs that involved computers in the 1980's. A lot of stars lined up for me!

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Welcome to Photrio. Do you have an online gallery?

 

[Emily Cook]

Welcome to Photrio. Do you have an online gallery?

I don’t, sorry - I’ve never been very involved in social media or online communities in general. I mostly just share with friends and family, but I’ve been thinking about putting more stuff online.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

I don’t, sorry - I’ve never been very involved in social media or online communities in general. I mostly just share with friends and family, but I’ve been thinking about putting more stuff online.

You ought to. We're photographers here, and many like to see the work of others. I know I do. I use Flickr, which you can use for free.

 

[MattKing]

You can also upload some work to the Photrio galleries.

 

[gbroadbridge]

and to parents with jobs that involved computers in the 1980's.

I joined Photrio when I was about your age, so I'm like your parents although my technical background at that time in the 80's was in the digital part of Film and Television production - as it was back then.

 

[David Lingham]

Welcome from the UK

 

[Emily Cook]

I joined Photrio when I was about your age, so I'm like your parents although my technical background at that time in the 80's was in the digital part of Film and Television production - as it was back then.

Back in my teens or so, I was very interested in learning about how video was edited and how computer graphics worked. Especially CGI - I was blown away by the 3D graphics in Tron as a kid, and then again later by Beauty and the Beast (my favorite movie for years back then) and again by Toy Story. I never did end up going into the field but it inspired me to learn a lot of the math and other stuff that eventually indirectly became my career.

I also had an older cousin who did graphic design, page layout, and pre-press stuff at a large print shop. It was so cool when I got to see it all in person. They had a fancy lithography department, presses and bins of lead type, though by the time I got to see it in the late 90s they had mostly switched to digital. I did get to see one of his coworkers exposing a plate but I had no idea at the time what any of it meant. Digital stuff was way more accessible, and they had old Adobe and Quark Xpress licenses they were no longer using. So I got to learn about scanning, photo editing, page layout, and stuff like that. Ah, the memories

 

[Arthurwg]

Interesting to think how computer graphics, initially developed for entertainment, morphed into the driver of AI and modern weaponry.

 

[chuckroast]

Hello from the California central coast! I’m not very good at online social stuff and there’s a good chance I’ll mostly just lurk here, but I figure I can put together an intro at least.

Among other things I’m a mom in my 40s, an FPGA signal processing engineer, and a hobbyist photographer. I started in the 90s with my dad’s Minolta X-700, and when I first got my own camera it was a Nikon. I didn’t even consider Canon because the bayonet turned the “wrong” way! Stupid reason, but here I am decades later still using my FA, F100, D850 and others.

My uncle lent me his Hasselblad 500C for a while back then too, which I absolutely adored. I’d still love to have one, but my RZ67 was a lot cheaper. I also have a few large format cameras, which I just really enjoy using.

These days I mostly shoot hybrid and digital. I like mixing my own chemistry and experimenting with very old film. I have a bunch of 50 year old E-4 Ektachrome I’ve been playing with, for example. On the digital side, I also really like IR and full-spectrum.

I don’t consider myself much of an artist, I mostly just document life and tinker. I hate my job and would love to quit and start a camera repair shop or local darkroom co-op or something, but I’m too good at what I do and my employer won’t quit paying me too much . Instead I try to stick to manageable small projects, like a custom data cable for my F100, fixing my old lenses, and other stuff like that. I have a handful of bigger projects in mind too but with all my other responsibilities I hesitate to commit to any of them.

Some day I should probably thin out my minor hoard of lenses and cameras.

Welcome. You are among friends similarly afflicted

 

[chuckroast]

Hey from SLC, UT, wishing it was the central Cali coast.

I have spent the past decade sitting in a room surrounded by you DSP dorks. Half the time - no, 100% of the time - I can’t understand a single word. And could you and the CCA people get together and agree on what to call the pin functions for crying out loud? I don’t know FPGA or CCA, and let’s face it, barely understand English… I don’t need that kind of challenge.

Likewise, that includes cameras which focus the wrong way, so Nikon and Pentax it is. Even Leica bugs me. And let’s not even mention Plaubel or Voigtlander top knobs.

I also like tinkering with lenses. Nearly all of mine have been disassembled and, get this, reassembled the correct way. No kidding. A word of caution: don’t ever get into large format, and definitely don’t buy a Packard shutter. Suddenly every lens seems like a good deal/idea/project.

Anyhoo, welcome to the mostly-lurking corner of Photrio. Lots crossover in our Venn diagram. And if you could just update your packets to send zeros, or a pause frame, or whatever, that’d be great, mmmkay? Thanks.

Just walk around muttering, "this is a use case for a Kalman filter" and people will assume you know what you're doing...

 

[chuckroast]

As soon as you figure them out we make up new ones, it’s part of our job security strategy!


Too late, I’m afraid. I have three 4x5 cameras and one of my current projects is to mount the lens cells from a Sekor Z 180mm lens in a Seiko #1 manual shutter - I hope to finish that one this weekend.

Microcontroller gang rise up! I haven’t used PIC, but I’ve worked on a few AVR and ST7 systems. These days we mostly use STM32 and other ARM systems.

Thanks for the welcome, everyone

I have done some little PIC proof-of-concept things. You can see them here:

tundra/pic-programmer

gitbucket.tundraware.com

tundra/pic-keypad

gitbucket.tundraware.com

tundra/pic-leddrvr2

gitbucket.tundraware.com

More relevant to photography, I designed this temp-driven development timer a few years ago using a RPi Zero:

tundra/devtimer

gitbucket.tundraware.com

As it says in the New Testament, "The geeks shall inherit the earth" ...

 

[AZD]

Just walk around muttering, "this is a use case for a Kalman filter" and people will assume you know what you're doing...

Yes! Also, wear a lab coat partially buttoned, carry a notebook/clipboard, and keep looking at your watch as if you’re running late. Everyone will think you’ve got everything under control.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Welcome to Photrio!