Archive 2. May 2011

the m8 metadata project. Information about the EXIF metadata in Leica M8 image files. Very interesting, especially because of the information about the estimated aperture - the M8 has the mysterious blue dot for this, which is used to determine the ambient light and then, by comparing it with the TTL measurement, an approximate aperture is derived. I had already wondered why in Lightroom my pictures had meaningful aperture values ...

inotify - get your file system supervised. Bookmarked for later - a daemon that automatically triggers scripts on file events. This could be used to implement automatic image imports via upload from Dropbox, for example.