I was up at 4am again this morning for the second day of my ISO Photography Standards meeting, dialling into Apple in Cupertino via Webex. Today we had technical sessions all day, including:
- tripod safety strength;
- autofocus repeatability;
- a proposal from a guy related to some of the high dynamic range stuff we discussed yesterday, suggesting additional applications to office printer equipment;
- image flare;
- depth metrology;
- and a proposal for a new work item on a standard relating to measuring the Shannon information theoretic information capacity of photographic images, for the context of determining usability of cameras for machine vision.
There was some very interesting discussion and I was diligently taking notes throughout, so I can report at the follow-up meeting for Australian experts.
After the meeting ended around 11am my time, I took Scully out for a long walk. We walked out to the long headland where the ferry wharf is and I had her chase and retrieve a tennis ball for a bit to run around, and then we walked home again.
Some photos I took on the way. A framed view of the city through an old sandstone house’s veranda:
View over the local harbour swimming area (fenced off in the lower part of the photo):
The local creek (view looking down from the bridge above):
This afternoon I had a couple more ethics classes on Secrets. And then for dinner my wife and I drove over to the Thai restaurant that we go to sometimes, a couple of suburbs over. Given I’ve been up at 4am two days in a row now, I was pretty tired. And given I had breakfast and lunch an hour or two early each (since I got up so early) I was really hungry by dinner time. So it was nice to have a tasty meal that I didn’t have to cook.
And here’s Scully, relaxing with some of her toys:
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