NASA chooses DSLR over MILC

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https://www.theonion.com/nasa-launc...vVNFRJDEosqdgm2zWVVX-U_oR7Kgn1X6FX_9EjrZiDXt0

 

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Good luck with an Onion link around here. Satire is lost on so many.

 

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I love the duct tape mounting - high quality USA engineering.

 

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Certainly guffaw worthy.

 

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The lens cap will melt away.

 

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If i had to launch an object into the sun, a nikon and an iphone would be among my top picks too.

This way, there's no loss and also, it's a great recycling technique. Win-win really.

 

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Should've used Gorilla tape. That standard stuff won't even make it past the outer corona.

Sheesh...

 

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Mark_dpr said:

https://www.theonion.com/nasa-launc...vVNFRJDEosqdgm2zWVVX-U_oR7Kgn1X6FX_9EjrZiDXt0

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. . . because no one wanted to sacrifice their Canon but plenty of people want to get rid of their Nikons! Yes, this is a joke, folks.

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http://craighartley.zenfolio.com/

 

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The reason is obvious. There is a physical mirror and shutter blocking the sensor. Otherwise, at close distances, the sun focused on the sensor could damage it.

 

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antares103 said:

The reason is obvious. There is a physical mirror and shutter blocking the sensor. Otherwise, at close distances, the sun focused on the sensor could damage it.

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They should've sent it to the sun at night, when it's not so hot.

 

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dmanthree said:

Should've used Gorilla tape. That standard stuff won't even make it past the outer corona.

Sheesh...

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https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/duct-tape-saves-the-day

 

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dmanthree said:

antares103 said:

The reason is obvious. There is a physical mirror and shutter blocking the sensor. Otherwise, at close distances, the sun focused on the sensor could damage it.

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They should've sent it to the sun at night, when it's not so hot.

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Yeah, but the low light performance of that camera is not so great. You can clearly see noise at ISO 430000 with a 237% zoom.

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• Feb 16, 2020

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It's the only way they could get rid of it so they could get a mirrorless. :-|

 

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NASA was using 386 and 486 chips when the rest of the world had moved on to the second and third generation of AMD Athlon chips. It comes down to knowing specifically how something will work and not the newness of the technology.