digital photography and nasa

**zuluclayman** · 07-23-2009, 05:27 AM

http://www.news.com.au/technology/st...014239,00.html

wow - and we think $2-3,000 is expensive for a good camera

DonaldG · 07-23-2009, 05:41 AM

Interesting. I remember one NASA image taken with a 1 mega pixel camera. hundreds of the images were stitched together as a mosaic and created a pseudo high def one!

On another occasion, NASA was downloading images from a failed satellite at something like 1 baud and took days to d/l one image....

I have been doing a major website for a local tool supply company - I occasionally get DVDs with extreme high resolution digital images (50Mp?) the files are huge 60 - 80 Mb. I cant remember the make, (not Hassleblad) but remember looking it up, that was £35,000 ish...

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