This isn’t exactly the same thing, but for anyone interested in the tech/science side of photography (optics, human color vision, silicon sensors, algorithms converting raw camera data to usable images, &c. &c.), I recommend Dick Lyon’s series of “Photographic Technology” lectures at google, a couple dozen hours of material:
Thanks for alerting me to this. There's also a lot of great stuff available from the 'iTunes University' - whole video lecture series from Stanford among others. You can also access most of the support material through the Stanford website. It's awfully generous of them!
