Hello and Welcome! You’ve reached a blog about the history, physics and technology of photography and optics, with the occasional sprinkle of Linux- and machine learning-related topics. Well, that’s the plan. My initial projects have been quite Linux-centric but that will change very soon.
Latest Posts
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![Building a DIY Spectroscope [Video]](https://mpr-projects.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/thumbnail.png)
Building a DIY Spectroscope [Video]
in ProjectsIn this post we’ll use a camera, an analogue pocket spectroscope and some software that I wrote to build a digital spectroscope. The spectroscope will be limited to roughly the visible range of light (~400nm to ~700nm). While it’s probably not as accurate as commercial devices we will calibrate it carefully to give decent results.
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![A Brief History of Light – From Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages [Video]](https://mpr-projects.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Shotcut_00_03_05_672.png)
A Brief History of Light – From Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages [Video]
In this video we start a journey through the history of human ideas about the nature of light. It’s a long journey but we’ll try to keep it brief and concise. In this first part we focus on Europe and on the Middle East. In future posts we’ll move on to the time from 16h…
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![Mono-Conversion of a Canon 350D [Video]](https://mpr-projects.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/DSCF5736_bw_small-scaled.jpg)
Mono-Conversion of a Canon 350D [Video]
In this video we disassemble a Canon 350D and we remove the top layer of the sensor, which includes the colour filter array. As a result we’ll end up with a monochrome camera. We also discuss auto focus calibration and a few related topics.
Latest Projects
Some projects take quite a while to describe so there are multiple posts. Below you’ll only see the first post of a series. That should make it easier to find the start of a project.