Category Archives: The Science of It

Scientific explanations of photo phenomena or other topics

A Quick Idea – Image Sensor Based on Time-to-saturate

Apologies (as always) for the infrequent updates to this blog. This semester has been a lot rougher than in the past, so I don’t know if I’ll have time to post anything more until the end of break.
I had a quick idea I wanted to jot down, and I haven’t found anything on it. I [...]

An explanation of Fujifilm’s Super CCD EXR sensor

A look at Fujifilm’s innovative EXR sensor, the latest iteration of its flagship Super CCD sensor, along with some analysis of images from production cameras. Admittedly this would have been more interesting as a speculative piece a year ago, but better late than never
tl;dr: Fujifilm’s EXR sensor is extraordinary, mostly for its dynamic range. If [...]

The Demosaic Project

So over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a little project called Demosaic.  It’s a little online demo that interpolates image data from (simulated) raw sensor output, similar to what almost every digital camera used today has to do.
http://www.thedailynathan.com/demosaic/