On Mar 23, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Tom C wrote:
And you're complaining about a few seconds or minutes.... when it
used to take at minimum an hour, if not a day or multiple days to
get film back? ...
I've been wandering through my digital photo/picture archives of the
past 20 years lately, and you brought this to mind.
When I started at JPL in 1984, a single [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024x1024 image
(1Mpixel) took upwards of 9 hours to render from our raw data on
$2.5M worth of computer equipment. By the time I left in 1988, I
could do five of them in the same time on $8K worth of Apple equipment.
By comparison, I now work on 6Mpixel images with [EMAIL PROTECTED] tonal/
color information. I can process 100 of them per hour from RAW format
to fully rendered on the Apple G5, which cost me about $4000 with
750G disk drives, 3G RAM and a 23" display.
Amazing how things have changed.
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Some fun Things from "The Time Machine" that I re-discovered recently...
photo of my mother when I took her to Hawaii in 1991, scanned to
dithered grayscale from Canon SureShot Zoom XL 3x5 photofinisher
print with a Thunderscanner and Macintosh before I had either access
to a flat bed scanner or a grayscale capable screen:
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/WZ-in-hawaii-1991.jpg
photo of myself and my friend Steve, captured in snapshots with
Olympus Stylus and scanned with 4bit grayscale scanner circa 1995:
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/steve-n-god-1995.jpg
photo of my brother Joe, visiting me in Dec 1995, captured with Nikon
35Ti, scanned from negative with original Polaroid SprintScan 35 7bit
scanner:
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/joe-19951208.jpg
Godfrey
