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Hello and welcome to the Tech Almanac ! It's pretty cool, thanks for checking it out. Read our...

Updated 1 year ago by Cam Vokey

Making Your Phone Dumb

Phone Zone

[Editorial / How-To from Cam Vokey] Want to go dumb phone? I hate using my phone and being so...

Updated 1 year ago by Cam Vokey

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Displays, Projectors, LED, etc Alternative Displays

Link out to the Survey of Alternative Displays site/resource from Blair. This may eventually move...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Environmental Considerations

Cameras Supplemental Camera Information

WIP Notes for cameras that perform differently indoor vs outdoor, daytime vs nightttime, incle...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Notes on Lenses

Cameras Supplemental Camera Information

[WIP] Talk about the very basics of measuring a cameras field of view based on its lens. This ca...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Notes on Latency

Cameras Supplemental Camera Information

[WIP] For the purposes of this writeup, we'll consider latency to be the delta or time between a...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Image Enhancement

Cameras Supplemental Camera Information

Image touch-up and Noise [WIP] Low light, De-noising, upscaling and other machine learning clea...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Camera Interfaces

Cameras Supplemental Camera Information

[WIP] GigE Vision Wikipedia Another important thing to keep in mind is that while many artistic...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Gimbals

Cameras Camera Support

I’ve owned 4 or 5 gimbals since 2017. That’s pretty nuts. I have a DJI RSC2 Pro now. It’s fantast...

Updated 1 year ago by Cam Vokey

LiDAR Scanners

Cameras General Camera Survey

Example of what many LiDAR scanners look like LiDAR Wikipedia entry LIDAR is a speciali...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

360 Cameras

Cameras General Camera Survey

WIP Placeholder for 360 cameras and their use cases

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Experimental Technologies

Cameras General Camera Survey

WIP Placeholder page Need ideas here - [Microphone Arrays as generalized cameras](https://ie...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Motion Capture Systems

Cameras General Camera Survey

These could have their own article and I have limited experience with them, but they are worth ad...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Multi-camera and On-board compute systems

Cameras General Camera Survey

[WIP] Camera systems that may use multiple cameras or are cameras that are integrated with on-boa...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Other cameras and systems

Cameras General Camera Survey

Other cameras and systems (robotic/Moving and other observational tracking devices, Security Came...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Fuji Nuances

Cameras Camera Specific

Here are some nuances for the X line that I’ve put here for future reference.  Firmware Updates ...

Updated 1 year ago by Cam Vokey

Overview

Cameras General Camera Survey

Preface: I [Blair Neal] published this guide/survey in 2013 on Creative Applications and moved i...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Questions to Consider

Cameras General Camera Survey

Before we dive in, consider the following questions when considering which camera best su...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Basic RGB Webcam

Cameras General Camera Survey

The Basic Webcam "Webcam" isn't necessarily an industry term, but if you're reading this...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal

Depth Cameras

Cameras General Camera Survey

In a way, these are an offshoot of the IR camera category but they involve some form of inf...

Updated 1 year ago by Blair Neal