On 1/30/2013 2:54 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:.
> Yeh, much PP goings on---and it is totally required. I think I posted
> this before regarding Helmhotz's view on the human eye as an optical
> instrument. An English translation of his Popular Lectures on
> Scientific Subjects was published in NY in 1873. He cited afterimages,
> spherical aberration, astigmatism, CA, vitreous opacities, the
> physiological blind spots due to the optic nerve head and its
> associated retinal vessels, and the less than perfect clarity of the
> cornea and lens even when no actual opacities were present:
>
> "Now it is not too much to say that if an optician wanted to sell me an
> instrument which had all these defects, I should think myself quite
> justified in blaming his carelessness in the strongest terms, and
> giving him back his instrument. "
He didn't know the power of first rate, intelligently adaptable firmware. :-)
> Curiously ... So nature, like Moose has no issue fixing
> things in post rather than up front where it might be too bulky or
> expensive to do so.
Imitating Nature Moose
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