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by nate 78 days ago
the morning after the launch i just randomly went onto their livestream and one of the astronauts was asking mission control for help on also using the gopros and iPhone cameras. i guess they have some. and he was struggling at getting a properly exposed photo with those. he said they were coming out super over exposed. but the D5 was working nominally. mission control said they'd get back to them about ideas on adjusting the gopros and iPhones. but it was funny to hear they're trying "new" tech and struggling with it up in space, and that 2005 D5 is still the champ :)
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throw0101c 77 days ago
The SLR-like cameras have a bunch of manual modes so you can 'force' them to get something captured, and you can then perhaps 'fix it in post'.

Modern tech allows more people to capture more things more easily, but when the automation fails there aren't really many manual modes to fall back on.

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sdfjkhdfjkdhs 76 days ago
None of this is relevant, as the scene was rendered in Blender. It's fake.
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CWuestefeld 77 days ago
he was struggling at getting a properly exposed photo with those. he said they were coming out super over exposed.

This is exactly what newbies experience when trying to photograph the moon from Earth. It's not intuitively obvious, but the light coming off the moon is essentially full-daylight bright. But the moon is small against a very black background, and depending on how the auto-exposure is operating, this often leads to guessing that the scene as a whole needs a lot more exposure.

I imagine that trying to photograph the Earth when a significant part of what's in view is experiencing daytime, is very much the same thing.

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jjulius 77 days ago
> ... 2005 D5...

About 11 years too far back:

> The Nikon D5 is a full frame professional DSLR camera announced by Nikon Corporation on 6 January 2016 to succeed the D4S as its flagship DSLR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D5

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PeterStuer 77 days ago
You have to wonder how unserious this can get. Given the unimaginable cost of this mission, they are faffing around as your typical aunt with Windows Home laptops and iPhones? Seriously?
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jjulius 77 days ago
I'll echo that "sheesh" in the other comment, too. They're so unserious compared to those super serious Apollo guys[1], right? After all, the Apollo folk never would've smuggled contraband for fun on the Moon[2]!

[1] https://youtu.be/8V9quPcNWZE?si=WBYqsQ1LitRC33rb

[2] https://youtu.be/t_jYOubJmfM?si=QWMhqrwJm2LL14sC

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B1FF_PSUVM 77 days ago
> faffing around

Sheesh, let the lab mice have a breather. Want them to solve physics during the trip?

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