My little Canon MP620B printer is great. I use it to print my photos and they always look good. It does eat ink like crazy though. That's about the extent of my printer knowledge.

>> ^MycroftHomlz:

Excellent website! What about a ridiculous high dpi inject printer?
>> ^critical_d:
http://components.arrow.com/part/search/%5E8/33/790
>> ^MycroftHomlz:
Definitely just the sensor would be preferable. But it is hard to find a place that sells just the sensors... Any suggestions? I was thinking about contacting the Aptina or Foveon directly. It definitely seems like a standard CCD image sensor might be out. They are too expensive, the image capture is too slow, and the pixel area is too small.

Excellent website! What about a ridiculous high dpi inject printer?
>> ^critical_d:

http://components.arrow.com/part/search/%5E8/33/790
>> ^MycroftHomlz:
Definitely just the sensor would be preferable. But it is hard to find a place that sells just the sensors... Any suggestions? I was thinking about contacting the Aptina or Foveon directly. It definitely seems like a standard CCD image sensor might be out. They are too expensive, the image capture is too slow, and the pixel area is too small.

http://components.arrow.com/part/search/%5E8/33/790

>> ^MycroftHomlz:

Definitely just the sensor would be preferable. But it is hard to find a place that sells just the sensors... Any suggestions? I was thinking about contacting the Aptina or Foveon directly. It definitely seems like a standard CCD image sensor might be out. They are too expensive, the image capture is too slow, and the pixel area is too small.

Definitely just the sensor would be preferable. But it is hard to find a place that sells just the sensors... Any suggestions? I was thinking about contacting the Aptina or Foveon directly. It definitely seems like a standard CCD image sensor might be out. They are too expensive, the image capture is too slow, and the pixel area is too small.

Ah Astronomics. I do astrophotography myself Darn bloomin' CCD's...


>> ^rychan:

>> ^honkeytonk73:
Get a decent camera with proper anti-blooming!

Indeed. Although I like the term "spillover" better than "blooming" because it makes it clear that this is an electronics problem on the sensor array and not an optical problem.
http://www.astronomics.
com/main/definition.asp/catalog_name/Astronomics/category_name/DW3A7V04GBG58GPFL36T7WA8L6/Page/1

OMG OMG, we're under attack by lens flares, camera artifacts and space debris!!!!!
And lets not forget cosmic rays impacting highly sensitive CCD equipment. Or unfocused and overexposed dust/ice particles in the camera or just outside the lens.

I must admit, some of them are pretty strange though.

A Canadian, Willard S. Boyle, was yesterday awarded a share of the 2009 Nobel prize in Physics for his part in the invention of the CCD image sensor. I heard him yesterday talking about the significance of his invention, saying its most important use was the fact that those "in authority" have to know that their every action can now be captured and recorded. i couldn't agree more- the more abuses of power like this one are exposed, the the more freedom we will all enjoy.

I don't see how this can possibly cost $200,000...
Maybe if it were bottom projection instead of top, or if the actual surface was of a custom transparent "slate" material, I would be impressed.

Here's some way-overboard estimates:
pool table - $3500
high-end graphics workstation - $4000
high-end (8000 lumen+) projector - $10,000
IR LED array - $100
high speed CCD cameras - $400
mounting hardware/wiring - $2000
full custom software (programming time) - $10,000

so that's $30k, not $200k.

I imagine spending time in Alaska as snow hiking to the top op a mountain where an observatory awaits to record the old light that is falling on CCD chips, while reading about the time the Russians ruled the territory and made small stormy trips across Bering Sea..

Congratz:)

>> ^dvst8download:
It's not refraction as the tags suggest. It's an artifact of CMOS Rolling Shutter, which affects a metric ton of cameras these days, even the $15K Red One. More details than you care to know here: http://dvxuser.com/jason/CMOS-CCD/


Thanks! I adjusted the tags!

It's not refraction as the tags suggest. It's an artifact of CMOS Rolling Shutter, which affects a metric ton of cameras these days, even the $15K Red One. More details than you care to know here: http://dvxuser.com/jason/CMOS-CCD/

i too hate the "x images per day" bullshit, and videos that are designed to be amazing rather than educational. i don't think saying "10 million bits per second" is any less bullshit. i am sure the eye doesn't work like a CCD chip.

put it on your homeschool playlist as a factchecking/logic exercise.

The CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation), Australia's senior research lab, have discovered that CCD is caused by mainly 2 things.

First, the way bees are kept, creates tremendous stress on the insects. Its been found to lower their immune system responses dramatically.

Second, a virus thats been spreading in plague proportions, that makes the bees somehow lose their ability to navigate back to the hive (I didnt read much into how they came to that conclusion), that without the stress and lowered imune responses, wouldnt normally pose any real threat to the bees.

Work is underway to find a cure for the virus....but being that its a virus, and not a bacterium, its not exactly easy to kill.

Colony Collapse Disorder scares me. They talk about bees just up and disappearing. Makes me think there's an alien conspiracy going on...

Seriously though, I wish we did understand more about CCD, it's gotten pretty serious in the past few years, and if all the bees die off... we're screwed as far as food goes.

That is, unless we could utilise some super weed pollinates/spreads easily and can be turned into food.

So yeah, we're screwed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder

I used to have one of the pro/sumer HDV sonys with 3 CCD and all, but now I'm pretty happy with this little camera, shooting to HDD is great.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
That's really great. I always wondered how the consumer HD products looked - and for 1k, that's pretty stunning. I have a Panasonic HVX200 which also shoots 1080i but with the DVCPROHD. I just finished up shooting a feature with it, and it did a pretty fantastic job. From shooting on film to HD, I have to say I prefer the flexibility of HD.

In reply to this comment by youdiejoe:
It's a Sony HDR-SR1, it shoots 1080i in the AVCHD format. Pretty cool camera, you can find it online for about 1k.

I take my son down there at least once a month, really great aquarium.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Your Vimeo vids are great. What did you shoot on? I like what you captured at the Aquarium in Long Beach. I used to work just up the street from that place.