Apollo 17 shot

[SteveDallas]

Originally posted by wolf
Goddammit!!!

(wolf thinks to self ... The cameras that they took to the moon were NOT that good. How the heck did they get such a quality high-res digital image ... D'OH!)

You've been in the digital age so long you forgot that people used to (and still do) take good pictures with film! I don't know what kind of cameras they took to the moon, but the standard image area of a 35mm slide is 24 x 36 mm. Using a modern slide scanner at 4000 dpi, you can get a 3770 x 5660 pixel digital image. Even with an older 2100 dpi scanner you'd get 1980 x 2976, quite respectable for most uses. Amateur shutterbugs were using 35mm Kodachrome for their vacation snapshots in the 50s; I'm sure NASA sent along something at least that good in 1969.