This WWW site has been created by Professor Hank Dietz to help organize a club for UK students, faculty, and staff who are interested in digital photography.
Now, in Fall 2009, I am making a serious effort to restart this club. The club began in Fall 2003, but has never really kept a critical mass since Spring 2004. However, digital cameras are a lot more common now, and advances like the CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) have made it easy to make digital cameras do things conventional cameras never could. Over the past year, I've also had a number of students doing projects that involved digital image capture and processing.
I used to have a WWW form posted here, but too many outside "users" (.ru email addresses with stuff to sell) abused that form... so I suggest you come by my office in person if you are interested. My office is 469 F. Paul Anderson Tower.
Here are pointers to a few useful resources relevant to digital photography in general. Later, we hope to have a much more complete set of reference materials on this site. Most of the local research on Digital Imaging Technologies is posted at http://aggregate.org/DIT/.
This club is the direct response to the interest generated by the short course Introduction To Digital Photography (PDF slides) which Professor Hank Dietz gave as part of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department's EDay2003 activities. Dietz has a long history in photography. He was photo editor for his high school newspaper and yearbook, also for Columbia University's Broadway Magazine. Aside from school-related publications, his work has appeared in places ranging from news photos in the New York Times to a full-page color ad for Hammacher-Schlemmer in the Saturday Evening Post. Since becoming a computer engineer, he has continued his interest in photography as both a hobby and a source of new directions for his research. As early as the mid 1980s, Dietz researched and published on digital halftoning techniques; his more recent work includes computational video walls, 360-dgree high-resolution digital imaging, and various methods to improve image quality for consumer digital cameras.
As a once professional photographer who prided himself on his traditional photographic darkroom skills, it is Dietz's opinion that digital cameras and processing now yield competitive or superior results for most uses. As his collection of digital cameras has grown, so has the layer of dust on his 35mm and large-format cameras. ;-)
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UK Digital Photography Club