Posted on 12/02/2014 7:50:02 AM PST by BenLurkin
If NASA is so advanced, why are their pictures in black and white? The answer, it turns out, brings us to the intersection of science and the laws of nature.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
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isn’t it racist to talk about the blackness of space?
According to the community organizers, the "blackness" is the color.
“Space...the final frontier...Until Obama dismantled NASA”
The ability to shoot in greyscale and bring the color in via post processing is one of the advantages of digital cameras. Grey scale is just so much better at capturing a wide tonal width.
You want as high as resolution possible without unnecessary information that will just use up your limited memory resources.
Good article. Thanks
One thing I would be curious about is the color response profile of the greyscale imager itself. That is going to put some kind of bias into the results.
Exceptional information. Thanks for posting.
you may be familiar with the Leica M....for Monochrome camera.. here on earth.
for thse who are going to create only monochrome pictures..
nope..... its out of my range
I miss my Canon 35s and darkroom work sometimes.
Film and film camaeras has gotten somewhat rare these days.
I ran into a guy carrying a Mamiya film camera..a fairly large format camera a few weeks ago.
“I miss my Canon 35s and darkroom work sometimes.”
Me, too. Developing film was a lot of fun.
I asked Santa for a new digital SLR for Christmas this year. I guess the good thing is that I don’t need to setup a darkroom for it. I can focus more on what to shoot versus how it will turn out. Photographic software can also be amazing.
One of the best things about digital is that you can take many similar photos and later, edit out all but the best. Such an approach would have cost a fortune with film and take up a lot of your time. My keeper photos are a lot better now.
The pros who did our wedding back in 02 in medium format can’t give them away.
The prices ive seen posted on the net..for such gear..arent exactly exorbitant...
I remember reading something ansel adams said about the onset of digital technology and scanning . He was pretty excited about it’s future.
I hope to swing a new lumix for myself this Christmas. I’ve been a long time Canon person but I do more with video and Lumix offers 4K in an affordable body and Canon doesn’t last I heard.
I have a 60d and a few canon lenses. I started with the 20d and enjoyed it. Even made a few bucks here and there too.
A little OT but funny: During a presser for her film “Gravity”, a female reporter asked Sandra Bullock to describe the difficulties of filming a movie in outer space.
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