Karl Auerbach

@dwallach @mattblaze I have yet to experience from a digital photographic system the joy and excitement of watching an image emerge from a sheet of photographic paper as it sits in the developer tray.

@[email protected] I dated Tracy back when I was at UCLA, but she did not look quite that spindly and her legs were not that long.

By-the-way, the town of Tracy is still there although it can be hard to find among the increasing number of giant distribution warehouses and trucking companies.

@[email protected] My astronomer friends might disagree that atmospheric effects are greater the further the astronomical subject.

But aside from my poor (very poor) joke, has anyone doing terrestrial photography adopted the technique used by astronomers of using a laser beam to do real time measure of atmospheric conditions and use that either in real-time lens/mirror adaption or post processing?

@dangillmor While I lean in favor of what you suggest, I fear that “interoperability” will be difficult. This is because, as we discovered over the years with IETF defined protocols, that many groups implement only the minimal core of a protocol or standard, and often do so in ways that are not particularly robust in their response to interactions with slightly different implementations or when network conditions become something less than the perfect, noiseless conditions found on developer networks.

And one need look no further than the awful state of e-mail interoperability today.

My business is building tools to allow implementers the means to test their implementations in less-than-optimal conditions. It is surprising how often even long-deployed code wobbles or fails.