I’m not one of those amateur photographers who conflates technology and picture-making. Gamma, MTF curves, ISO numbers, CCD, CMOS, ICC profiles, colorspaces, optics — you can make great images without really knowing what they technically mean or how they work. But my day job relates directly to imaging and image processing, so I end up learning a lot about them anyway.

Someone at the office pointed out a series of photography technology lectures at Google. Titles include:

• Digital Camera Image Processing Pipelines (Richard Lyon)
• RAW Files and Formats (David Cardinal)
• Inkjet Printing Comes of Age (Uwe Steinmueller)
• High Dynamic-Range Image Capture (Greg Ward)
• Contrast, MTF, Flare, and Noise (Iain Mcclatchie)
• Silicon Image Sensors (Richard Lyon)
• Non-destructive, Selective, Editing of Photographs (Uwe Steinmueller and Fabio Riccardi)
• Visualization using MATLAB of Colorspaces, etc. (Richard Lyon)

Geek out!