Posted on 02/24/2015 6:17:46 PM PST by MeshugeMikey
Thank you. Reading Sigma’s website you would think it was the second coming. I have a Nikon, happy with it.
Because when the DoE came into being the biggest and most important thing they did was take care of our nuclear stockpile. They got to play with so many billions of dollars but then many of the DoE people at the top were installed by leftist Presidents, combined with the shrunken stockpile, who wanted to take the DoE in different directions and away from the nuclear weapons business.
They are now trying to remain relevant so they are trying to leverage every piece of technology they either have or can invent to keep their jobs.
Yes, I have an old Pentax DSLR with only 6mp and it seems to be completely adequate. Also a couple of old Sonys with 12mp pixels. I can’t really tell the difference.
One of the biggest improvements in addition to more pixels is they now have far less noise and will operate at ISOs which my old cameras would only show darkness.
One thing to keep in mind is to double the resolution you have to quadruple the number of pixels.
Lol
Thank you for referencing that article MeshugeMikey. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
I’d normally support a project like this.
However …
Not only was a price not mentioned (corrections welcome), but even without looking at the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I, I know that the states have never authorized the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for scientific instruments like the referenced camera.
And since the article also doesn’t indicate who’s actually funding the camera (corrections welcome), until somebody can clue me in, this seems to be another federal spending project wrongly established outside the framework of the Constitution.
If you listen closely to the president, it becomes apparent that even the world’s biggest camera won’t be big enough to take the White House egomaniac’s photo.
Actually at that size, the pixels will be bigger per square cm.
The biggest difference between my professional 30 mp camera and a consumer level one is that my pixels are bigger and more sensitive. The whole megapixel thing is really overblown as an effective measure of resolution.
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Conmsider the contribution that Black ___ Holes have made to the White House!
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But Obingo has to have pictures of the universe for archival purposes, so when God zaps it he’ll still have a scrapbook of what it looked like.
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Bet the shutter takes forever to close and makes a racket when it finally does.
Those were the days...when people being photographed had to stand stock still to avoid appearing as blurry ghosts in the photographs due to the LONG exposures necessary to capture an image.
we have quite enough mental Inages of The One’s overstuffed ego as it is
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