Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some beautiful B&W pictures here, with a fascinating story. And some hints that older technology has things to recommend it. <http://www.wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar-photos-recovered-by-great-feats-of-hackerdom-developed-at-a-mcdonalds/#slide-id-751001> "...our imagery from 1966 and ?67 has sometimes greater resolution and greater dynamic range [than today's spacecraft] because of the way the pictures were taken. So sometimes you look into a shadow in a picture that LRO?s taken, and you don?t see any detail?with ours, you do.? The cameras used film, which was developed onboard and scanned using fax-like technology. More info here, with other links. <http://www.moonviews.com/> --Peter