And just mentioning for people unfamiliar with this stuff, that's not a camera and not even an accessory for a camera. That's an accessory for an accessory. :D
It's a LiDAR that follows a subject and gets distance measurements, and then sends them to an additional accessory which is typically used to control focus in cinema cameras. That second accessory has a motor and is attached to a cinema lens that has certain threading or grooves where the accessory can grip and change the focus.
In cinema, the camera operator (usually) only moves the camera, but not the focus. For that, there's a 'focus puller'. A person who finely operates the focus, sometimes at a certain distance, using some sort of specialized control.
No. Modern cameras usually use a combination of contrast detection (pure image analysis checking the contrast of the region you want in focus), phase detection (an optical system where you split the income image in two and then compare them) and sometimes help of some sort of assist lamp.
I remember using machine tags Last.fm back, back in the day (late 00s, maybe even 2010). That was still the time of the mashup/remixed web pages, and APIs were more open and you could do very fun stuff crossing Google Maps, Facebook, Craigslist and whatever.
Then, Last.fm was a good site to keep track of the events (concerts/festivals) you were planning to go or you had visited.
Every event had an ID (let's say, 3792998), and you could add photos to Flickr with a machine tag with certain prefix (in this case, the tag would be lastfm:event=3792998). So, when you visited an event on Last.fm, it'd query the Flickr API for photos tagged with that machine tag, and show photos from that concert.
It was cool, but I think Last.fm removed that feature at least 10 years ago...
Here you can still list Flickr photos tagged like that:
Tailored Industries (the factory) says they have over 300 products that are available immediately as white-labeled items at your custom online boutique. I don't know if any of these designs were customized or not, but it is a surprisingly low startup cost to put together a shopify store and have Tailored Industries make your clothes on demand. You need some photos, and a cool looking brand, and they do all of the hard work. I wonder if I should open up my own shop...
But the site doesn't say anything about being new, and in fact says it was invented in 1995:
When Was 3D-Knitting Invented?
The concept of 3D-knitting was first envisioned and then developed by the
Japanese company SHIMA SEIKI. They launched their first WHOLEGARMENT knitting
machine at the ITMA trade fair in 1995.
We call this the Scunthorpe problem. Stupid "rude word" detectors use simple rules that fail on actual words.
Way back I was working on a loyalty card system that had the entire UK electoral roll and Post Office data and we had to validate people; names and addresses. A "comedian" decided to sign themselves up for the system using a stupid name, and when the loyalty card duly arrived at their (correct) address with their (incorrect) name, they went to the papers and it became a slow news day human interest story.
We had to implement a Scunthorpe filter, and that was really difficult. We ended up with a human looking at the data and hitting a button if they thought this was a made-up "funny" name or address.
You would be amazed at English place names and surnames. Velvet Bottom is a real place in the UK. There are many people wandering around with names that you can't say in polite company.
I'm on INWX but trying to get out, as pricing is quite expensive for regular TLDs. A .com domain goes for about €18 with taxes and all that stuff.
And the situation for autorenewal is terrible. At least when using their Spanish site (inwx.es) they cannot do autorenewal billed directly to your credit card or Paypal account, you have to previously add credit to your account "balance" and leave it hanging there until your next renewal.
Somebody mentioned openprovider.com and I'm taking a look because it looks interesting.
It's a LiDAR that follows a subject and gets distance measurements, and then sends them to an additional accessory which is typically used to control focus in cinema cameras. That second accessory has a motor and is attached to a cinema lens that has certain threading or grooves where the accessory can grip and change the focus.
In cinema, the camera operator (usually) only moves the camera, but not the focus. For that, there's a 'focus puller'. A person who finely operates the focus, sometimes at a certain distance, using some sort of specialized control.
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