Re: What a difference 40 years makes
- From: "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:06:12 -0400
"Jeff Findley" <jeff.findley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Brian Thorn" <bthorn64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:05:54 GMT, "Alan Erskine"
<alan.erskine@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
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