[Leica] Article about Ralph, a camera on the Pluto team.

[Frank Filippone]

I chased around from Ric's article and found this info on the camera itself...

As New Horizons starts sending its trove of flyby data back on Wednesday, the pace will be at a glacial 1,000 bits a second. That is roughly the rate at which computer modems talked to each other in the mid-1980s.

Photographs taken by the spacecraft's black-and-white camera measure 1,024 pixels by 1,024 pixels, or more than a million pixels in total. Each pixel consists of 12 bits, to record one out of 4,096 possible gray levels. That's more than 12 million bits of information in each picture.

And here we are, wanting from Leica a 40++MP camera.......  or 16 bits of color depth.....
LR, eat your heart out.....

PS, the other camera on board is called Alice....  Ralph and Alice.  The Honeymooners..... 

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net


Article about Ralph, a camera on the Pluto team.

<http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2015/04/08/colorado-camera-to-take-first-close-up-photos-of-pluto/25483587/>

a picture of the camera (Ralph)

Ric Carter
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> On Jul 25, 2015, at 7:12 AM, Leowesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> For you camera geeks out there.  
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> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-camera-behind-the-new-horizons-pluto-photos-ralph/398549/
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> Leo Wesson
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