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Remember when we had to wait a week for film to get developed from the observatory?
I just compared a print from 2003 of the Orion Nebula to the stacked image I pulled off my backyard camera last night. The difference in clarity is just wild, isn't it?
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taragibson3mo ago
Man, that's a perfect example. It feels like everything works that way now. My old point-and-shoot camera photos look like foggy messes compared to what my phone can do. The tech just gets cheaper and better so fast it makes your head spin.
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paul1172mo ago
My uncle bought a 4 megapixel digital camera back in 2003 for like six hundred bucks. We thought it was magic at the time. Now my phone's junk camera that I never clean takes pictures that blow it out of the water for free. It's wild how stuff that felt like science fiction just becomes normal and then totally outdated.
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mason_knight3mo ago
@taragibson, do you think we'll ever hit a limit to how much better this stuff can get?
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