bunch of force per unit area on this blocky guy : NASA excitedly broadcast modifiedHasselblad 500ELsto the moonlight along with the Apollo 11 astronaut , only to find out , through those bulky usance Carl Zeiss lenses , that nobody was home . BOOOORRIIINNNGG .
So certainly , all these years later , NASA ’s get some slick little superintendent - cams that make their 1960 ’s relics look like , well , 1960s token , good ? This1920 - chic shooteris called the Mars Descent Imager ( MARDI ) , and it flew with the Mars Phoenix in 2007 and 2008 . woefully , it was never called upon , though it did have a infernal region of a drive .
This stocky beast , however , was . This is the Phoenix’sSurface Stereo Imager , built by the University of Arizona , which captured almost all of the most iconic images the Phoenix send off back from the Red Planet .
If you really require to sneak some glamour shots of horrible alien - like animal , your good stake probably is n’t institutionalize a television camera out to place — think closer , and wetter . TheORCA Eye in the Sea camera systemis designed to dash bio - luminescent creatures at depths approaching three quarters of a mile .
mean specifically for crash trial transcription , theUltima APXseries of cameras , some of which can record in overabundance of 10,000fps , can be used for slightly morespectacular and/or terrific purposes .
Shooting the man ’s largest non - digital , non - enlarged photograph will naturally call for a fairly mammoth camera . The Great Picture pinhole tv camera is as large as an aircraft hangar . in reality , it is an aircraft hangar .
A few years ago , Google was shopping around for hardware for a very specific , very exact picture taking project : it involved consider pictures of passably much everything , ever . We now know it as Street View , and drop quite a bit of timelaughing at it . This niggling light bulb , seen here inexplicably mount on a man instead of a VW Beetle , fromImmersive Media , is how a good portion of the 360 - degree imagery was enchant . [ PopSci ]
Every question how the inside of a 4250 - degree metal furnace looks when it ’s on ? Me neither . TheLenox Firesight Pultzwatercooled digital cameras will show you exactly what “ hot ” looks like , anyway , just because it can .
Also blistering : Stars . But you ca n’t really just stick a camera in one of those , so we ’re stuck with equipment like thePan - STARRS PS1 , which pip 1.6 - gigapixel trope of moderately much anything that is n’t ground , through even more monolithic telescopes .
On the other destruction of the size spectrum you ’ve got theSayaka Endoscope camera , which can be deploy into all way of experience meatsacks , mankind included , to take complete pictures at a rate of 25 - 30 frames per second , at a resolution on par with your iPhone 3G.
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