Why Auto White Balance Isn't Perfect

Every digital camera made comes with a promise of making perfect pictures with the click of a button. The algorithms used to deliver on this promise, however, are by no means perfect, including the auto white balance algorithm.

Print Store Update

On April 2nd, I was pretty optimistic that I was just a couple of weeks away from launching an online store with the first of my prints for sale. As you know, I asked for a bit of help from all of you to help out. That process turned out to be a fantastic experience and resulted in a lot of feedback.

Ignite SF April 2008

As part of Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008, Brady Forrest and company hosted an Ignite SF at the DNA Lounge last night. Ignite nights are always a good time. What's Ignite? Take 14 or so speakers, give them 5 minutes each to talk, and see what happens. The result is almost universally fun. And, thanks to the format, if somebody's talk is a dud, well, you only have to wait 5 minutes for the next one.

Action Stream

  • duncan tweeted, "wow. Is the heat getting to Twitter?"
  • duncan tweeted, "It's noon and 91ºF in Berkeley right now. Wow. Weather widget says we'll hit 102ºF today—that's like almost 40ºC for you non-US peeps."
  • duncan tweeted, "Everything was right to take photos of airplanes at SFO this morning except for the fact that they turned the pattern around. Doh!"
  • duncan tweeted, "Network at the hotel is sucking wind. And EVDO isn't much help. It's a TCP-deficient zone."
  • duncan tweeted, "@beaucolburn Images go to backup hard drive first, then into Lr/Ap depending on which I'm using. I always have 2 copies of 'em."
  • duncan posted GeoWankers
  • duncan posted Erik Hersman
  • duncan posted Erik Hersman
  • duncan posted Jonathan Lowe
  • duncan posted Jonathan Lowe