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▲60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal detailsarstechnica.com
48 points by sohkamyung 3 days ago | 11 comments
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isoprophlex 2 hours ago [-]
No amount of computational smartphone photography can match, in my eyes, the clarity and contrast and intensity of whatever analogue medium these were captured on.

This looks gorgeous. I'm extremely tempted to splurge on this, and the Apollo, books...

lm28469 1 hours ago [-]
Medium format film (120, 6x6), Hasselblad cameras. I personally think we're barely starting to match the quality of medium format film with modern medium format sensors

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/camera-hasselb...

bbatha 10 minutes ago [-]
Depends on how you define quality. While medium and large format photography are extremely high resolution that’s not the only factor. Space age lenses were significantly lower resolution than the film. Modern mirrorless lenses are starting to come close to being able to out resolve film but still aren’t there. Meaning that you get more functional resolution out of modern digital. Digital also beats the pants off film for dynamic range and low light. That said the noise (grain) and dynamic range fall off in film are more pleasing than digital to most eyes. So it’s not all about technical specs.
tecleandor 1 hours ago [-]
Film in big formats is incredible, gives great images even on shitty cameras...
glimshe 1 hours ago [-]
Great lenses with huge film frames. It's doable in digital, but not on a Smartphone or budget SLR.
tjpnz 9 minutes ago [-]
One of those missions lasted just shy of 14-days. Boggles the mind given the size of the Gemini capsule.
echelon_musk 20 minutes ago [-]
> Gemini 5, ended just two weeks ago, in 1965

1965 was two weeks ago?

laborcontract 2 hours ago [-]
Note: this has nothing to do with Gemini, Google's latest image editing model.
JdeBP 8 minutes ago [-]
But it is connected to the Internet protocol of the same name, which uses 1965 as its well-known port number (although IANA has not heard about this yet).
OJFord 2 hours ago [-]
Which, had it been around anything close to 60 years, could have been confusing!
randomtoast 2 hours ago [-]
The name comes from Latin "gemini" meaning "twins," referring to the mythological Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda. In mythology, Pollux was immortal, Castor mortal; their story is connected with themes of brotherhood and sacrifice.

Project Gemini was NASA's second human spaceflight program (1961-1966), preceding Apollo. It developed spaceflight techniques such as orbital rendezvous and docking, essential for the Moon landing.

Gemini is also a lightweight internet protocol and associated ecosystem (the Gemini Protocol), designed as a middle ground between Gopher and the modern web (HTTP/HTTPS), emphasizing simplicity and privacy.

It is also the name of Google's multimodal AI model, successor to Bard (announced 2023).