They don’t take pictures on mars. They take “images”. hehe <film snob alert!> No, but seriously, when they took pictures on the moon (if you believe that really happened)they used a Hassellblad medium-format film camera. I believe the mars pics are all interpretations of data -some thermal, some light-oriented, and so on. It’s accurate (so they say), but it’s not what the human eye would see. Then again, much film photography is the same way, through the use of polarizers and filters. Certainly mars images we see wouln’t be possible with film. But I think the Mars Rovers are a little too heavy.
Photography (all forms) is an appropriate hiking subject! Where was Greg during the Pickup Truck thread? :tongue
Graviy Man- thanks for the pinhole lesson. I’ve made many of those cameras, but never thought of them in that light -sorry, unavoidable. I have a question: Do you know about Camera Obscura, the giant pinhole used by Da Vinci (?) or someone to paint a church on the opposite wall? How did they flip the image? A lens?
Man, this is getting me revved up for the ATPhotoProject.com! Might go digital for that one!
Great disussion!
Tha Wookie