Re: What a difference 40 years makes



On Apr 23, 6:48 am, "Jeff Findley" <jeff.find...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"Brian Thorn" <bthor...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:05:54 GMT, "Alan Erskine"
<alan.ersk...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In 1968, Apollo 8 took the famous Earth Rise image; now the Japanese have
taken a much sharper image
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2008/04/img/20080411_kaguya_02.jpg

The Apollo 8 image is still better. Kayuga's Earth looks like a
Photoshop job.

My thought as well (and this was after I went to the site to see if there
were higher resolution versions of the new pictures).

In a lot of ways, a high end (large format) film camera is still superior to
a high end digital camera. The cameras carried by Apollo were actually very
good. Unfortunately, the astronauts were a far cry from professional
photographers, so it's not terribly surprising that the quality of many of
the photos is lacking.

However, the famous Apollo 8 earthrise photo is very good, all things
considered.

Jeff
--
A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein

? You've got access to an actual Apollo frame of film ?
.. - Brad Guth

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