Digital BW, The Print

100,000 feet is not space. The U2 flies at about 65,000 and the SR71 
Blackbird flew at about 100,000.  They simply land with the film.

Truman

Sam wrote:

>I think Spy sattelites are more about Zoom than the medium used...
>
>Sam
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>  From: Seth Rossman 
>  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
>  Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 8:44 AM
>  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: OT Canon 10D
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>  Truman-
>
>  =Of course if you step a red then blue then green laser across a 
>  =conventional sensor you will get 1/3 the number of sensors advertised. 
>  =The whole digital camera market is a shell game of inflating numbers. 
>  =When you can put any of them on an airplain at 100,000 feet and read a 
>  =license plate on a car - I will be interested. Until then I'll 
>  =stick to 
>  =film.
>  =
>  Excellent concept.  I wondered how those spy satellites work!  How do they
>  they get that hi-res film back down to earth so fast?  I'd thought it'd burn
>  up in the atmosphere.  Sneaky government is making secret film drops from
>  space.
>
>  Seth
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