[jonursenbach]

Problem is all the testing that is necessary to do to ensure that that $1000 camera works at all isn't possible to do before they launch.

[CamperBob2]

Sorry, not buying it. That might be a good reason to fly a camera that's one year behind the commercial state of the art, but not 10 years as seems to be the usual practice.

This stuff matters, whether NASA likes it or not.