{"id":89,"date":"2006-02-25T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=89"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:39:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:39:52","slug":"he-takes-purty-pictures-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"He Takes Purty Pictures Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/blogger\/gundlach.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/blogger\/gundlach.gif\" \/><\/a>My guru, <a href=\"http:\/\/albedo039.blogspot.com\/\">Computer Ed<\/a>, is pretty handy with a camera too. He has <a href=\"http:\/\/albedo039.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/film-where-art-thou.html\">a good post<\/a> on the sea change that has taken place in the world of photography with the conversion from film to digital media. You camera buffs (and even those who aren&#8217;t so buff) will find his thoughts worth reading and some of his suggestions worth emulating.<\/p>\n<p>Other signs of the times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Dell desktop computer that I recently purchased has a media card reader which can transfer photos, video, data and music from thirteen different types of media cards.<\/li>\n<li>I spend my day typing and reading entries in a completely paperless computerized medical record system. There is a special mode to view scanned images and digital ophthalmic photographs which my technician shoots and transfers to the digital patient record in a matter of seconds. Fifteen years ago I was fumbling around with paper records and slides of patients&#8217; eyes which kept getting lost or damaged. Also back then, I couldn&#8217;t type worth a lick. Now, thanks to on-the-job training, I type about a gazillion words per minute and I&#8217;ve got the carpel tunnel syndrome to prove it.<\/li>\n<li>They use to say that &#8220;the eye is the window to the soul.&#8221;  Nowadays, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/techinnovations\/2006-02-22-iris-school_x.htm\">it&#8217;s the key to the front door as well.<\/a>  I plan to weigh in on the implications and ramifications of iris scanning and other biometric technologies in a future post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the meantime, enjoy Ed&#8217;s post and &#8220;purty pictures&#8221; and then grab your digital point and shoot this weekend and make a few of your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guru, Computer Ed, is pretty handy with a camera too. He has a good post on the sea change that has taken place in the world of photography with the conversion from film to digital&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huntsville","category-technology","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9749,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/9749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}