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
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