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July 02, 2004
The initial photos of the rings ofSaturn — too cool! — are in black and white, with color ones to arrive soon. Why b&w first? Does it take longer to develop the color ones? Do we get double prints if we go with the b&w? Posted
by D. Weinberger at July 2, 2004 08:24 AM
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simply because bw is far out, man!
Posted by: bw | July 2, 2004 08:46 AM
Most of the satellites don't have color cameras. They have a BW camera witha filter reel, and take three identical pictures through a red, a green, and a blue filter, which then have to be imaged together to make a color picture.
so initially, you take the BW for speed, then three filtered pictures to photoshop....
Posted by: Chuq Von Rospach | July 2, 2004 10:40 AM
There will be no color versions of those early shots. There wasn't enough time during the initial stage of getting into orbit to grab the sort of image captures needed to assemble color pictures during each shot. As the previous comment indicates, color requires moving through each filter, which is the part of the process for which there wasn't time.
Posted by: The One True b!X | July 2, 2004 09:30 PM
True color is just a state of mind; a mood. Do you mean "true color"--that little range of the electromagnetic spectrum to which only we are privy? What is color? Wavelength: E=hv (Planck’s Law--Quantization of Black Body Radiation). The Energy is all in the detail of seeing; that is, in the commingling of the bosonic and fermionic anarchic contortions which produce dialectical contradiction in the substratum. Jeez.
Posted by: bw | July 3, 2004 09:10 AM
everybody gay
Posted by: Anonymous | October 19, 2004 11:30 AM
But the images look crap! We were promised thousands of wonderful, detailed images in colour!!
Posted by: Not | November 21, 2004 03:15 AM