Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting. Thanks for the link. Points out the problems of maintaining an archive of things stored in some form of electronic means. Who will be able to read our archived photos, data, documents in 50 years? Aram -----Original Message----- From: Peter Klein Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 12:48 PM To: lug ; olympus at thomasclausen.net Subject: [Leica] OT: 1960s Lunar Orbiter photos restored 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