Engineering and technology notes

DIGIC

Jovan Stosic February 21, 2017

Digital Imaging Integrated Circuit is Canon Inc.’s name for a family of signal processing and control units for digital cameras and camcorders. DIGIC units are used as image processors by Canon in its own digital imagery products. Several generations of DIGICs exist, and are distinguished by a version number suffix. Currently, DIGIC is implemented as an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed to perform high speed signal processing as well as the control operations in the product in which

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Depth of field

Jovan Stosic February 21, 2017

In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, depth of field (DOF), also called focus range or effective focus range, is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image. Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance at a time, the decrease in sharpness is gradual on each side of the focused distance, so that within the DOF, the unsharpness is imperceptible under normal viewing conditions. In some cases, it may be desirabl

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[Q] searching solution usb host/otg on galax… | Android Development and Hacking

Jovan Stosic February 21, 2017

I`m searching for a useable solution to get usb host/otg on my Galaxy Ace. I want to use my phone to control my nikon-dslr. There are apps like dslrdashboard or bbqdslr on the market, but they need usb host. Using Mardons CM10.1 ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show….php?t=2212438), but it seems that the kernel doesn`t support usb host. I didn´t find a kernel with usb host, so pls if anybody may help me to get it working. (tried to post at the thread linked above, but its not allowed for a newbi

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Mount/USB – Community Help Wiki

Jovan Stosic February 21, 2017

This page explains how to use USB drives, like external hard disks and USB flash drives (aka USB sticks, thumb drives, pen drives, etc). The material here also applies to flash cards (like in your digital camera). USB storage devices have the enormous advantage that for the most part they use a standard set of protocols. Thus, instead of needing individual drivers, as does much computer hardware, a standard driver permits access to the devices, making them very portable and able to easily work on many plat

Source: Mount/USB – Community Help Wiki

8 Killer Custom ROMS for Galaxy Ace S5380 [Best] | Root My AndroidRoot My Android

Jovan Stosic February 21, 2017

In this post is a list of custom ROMs for galaxy Ace S5380. Samsung Galaxy Ace S538 is a pretty old device as off now. And the Ace users might want to install additional ROMS to take a break from the boring user interface of the Touchwiz v 3.0. So if you have rooted your […]

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