I used every trick I know to get more reach for this shot — 300mm lens, 1.4 *and* 1.7x teleconverters, on a crop-sensor camera, plus a moderate crop.
Author: doug
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I want to be able to read my house’s gas meter and import the reading into home automation so I can track usage more finely. I ran across a project to use standard computer vision algorithms to do just this sort of thing. Today I did some proof-of-concept experiments, and here’s as far as I got: finding the outlines of the dials. I think this may just work.