Films and Resolution

March 6, 2008 blog code

Normal 35mm film is of dimension 24mm x 36mm. The photo-sensitive chemical is distributed on the film in a resolution as high as 200 molecues/mm in the current technology. However, usually the printing from film uses only 40 lines/mm resolution and naked eyes cannot tell the difference. [more]

Sunny 16 Rule

January 23, 2008 blog work

Sunny 16 rule says that in a sunny day, shooting shall set the shutter to the same ISO as the film and the aperture to f/16 to maintain the correct amount of light to come through. Setting shutter at the double of speed of ISO shall open the aperture to... [more]

VMware Server

October 24, 2007 blog system

In the past, I used to use the VMware GSX server (my university paid a lot of money for that!). I haven’t been using it for a while but now, as I want to try out something with my new Athlon64 Dell, I picked it up again. [more]