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Color from a Black & White Camera

This is the first color image produced by the new camera & lens combination. The bilinear rectification routine that we completed last week was automatically applied to correct chromatic aberration.  In the future bicubic interpolation will make the image even sharper.  The original 16-bit image had levels and curves adjusted in Photoshop, and the result was converted to…

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Converting 16 bit Images to 8-bit Images

We spent the last year designing and building a camera and software that can capture images with pixels that are 16-bits deep.  It isn’t easy to view these images since most tools expect 8-bit images, so the following routine is used to squeeze the 65,536 values in the 16-bit image down to the 256 values…

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Self portrait in the calibration lab made during a test of new software. When this picture was taken the new code was in a user hostile pre-alpha mode. I like the noise and banding effect even though it was caused by a bug that we fixed the next day. The system is now producing low-noise…