[Nottingham] "Open Source" goes flash-bang-wallop! (*)

[Jim Moore]

I remember when the state of the art was a kodak brownie 110 compact
and a ten-bulb flash bar...

ah, those were the days of simple photography... drop in the
cartridge, and you're good for 24 shots - and the cameras were
waterproof, to boot!

On 9/20/09, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Yet another view of "Open Source":
>
> Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with
> the introduction of an open-source digital camera, dubbed Frankencamera...
>
> http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DS-Open-source-Camera-Could-Revolutionize-Photography-091409.aspx
>
>
> Now... Where's one of those Arduinos?... ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
> * http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/f/flashbangwallop.shtml
>
> "There's always been a photographer
> To record the 'appy scene.....
>
> 'Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture
> What a picture, what a photograph
> Poor old soul, blimey, what a joke
> Hat blown off in a cloud of smoke"
>
> (From back in the days when flash photography was an open trough of
> magnesium powder...)
>
>
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> martin at ml1.co.uk
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