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Originally posted by sarcastic
In my grandmother's family album there are pictures going back to the 1840's. They didn't have color back then everything was brown.
Those photos were probably taken with very long exposures, something like 3 to 5 minutes was common with the first photos, and even after photography became more widespread, a 30 seconds exposure was normal.
Those photographs look better in quality than the stuff NASA has put out from the Phoenix Project already because everything looks black or pebbly.
They obviously know how to take photos, but it depends on what is the mission's goal.
I don't think they know how to take pictures or they're not trying very hard.
When you talk about the "darkened background" do you mean that the faces only appear in the negative image? I ask this because the background is not dark unless we invert the colours or change the image in any way.
Originally posted by vze2xjjk
Sol 44 Spirit The faces onMars appear on the side of a distant hill and obviously could not be that huge.Their faces are smaller than yours,yet why do they appear only where the darkened background reveals them? I have told you why before,but let's see the masterful crickets ummm critics explain this one.
What do you mean by "while the multi-exposures are clicked"?
Originally posted by vze2xjjk
If he bobs back and forth a distance of 1 foot while the multi-exposures are clicked he will blur out much more than if he were 30 to 40 feet away because the amount of motion/distance would be less from the Point of View of the cam.
Originally posted by vze2xjjk
reply to post by ArMaP
Each pic is not one click alone,but the frames overlap,taken in rapid succession.You misread the word "optimal" 1.5 meters to infinity as a lower limit.The animals are NOT all as close as that 1.5 meters(roughly 6 feet)distant from pan cam.The animals are spread out widely dispersed in all four and a half years (Earth Years) away from the rover/camera on a mast.