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Re: [Digital BW] Camera Budget Crunch

2004-08-16 by bwinkjet

Paul

To transmit data from a camera with more resolution bit wise would 
take a very long time and interfere with other information, commands 
important to the mission.

Paul

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "BC" 
<bcphoto@b...> wrote:
> Amen,
> 
> Seems like at the total cost to get the camera there in the first 
place they woullda sprung for the resolution 'n' the bandwidth to 
get more than 1MP o' data.
> 
> BC
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: claudej1@a... 
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 4:24 PM
>   Subject: [Digital BW] Camera Budget Crunch
> 
> 
>   In a message dated 8/16/2004 6:50:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>   DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:
>   Great shot. But 1 MP? I guess they didn't have any money left 
over for a
>   real camera, after they built the rest of the rocket.
> 
>   --
> 
>   Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> 
> 
> 
>   Or they are forced to sent it one pixel at a time back to earth.
> 
>   Claude
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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