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Solar Eclipse at the Antarctic

Nasa, Google, Carnegie-Melon Develop NexGen Gigapixel Camera

NASA and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have teamed to build a robotic device called GigaPans that lets any digital camera to produce gigapixel (billions of pixels) panoramas. (Image is the Waffle at '06 Burning Man Festival).

World's Oldest Known Color Photos -Dating from 1872

Checkout this fascinating collection of the earliest known color photography dating from 1872 with a landscape of Angouleme in Southern France before the Autochrome process was perfected. 130 years ago this view  was created by a "subtractive" method, the basis for all color photography, even today. It was taken by Louis Ducos du Hauron who proposed the method in 1869. It was not until the 1930's that this method was perfected for commercial use.

Other subjects in the collection include color phots from the Russian Empire before Lenin's arrival at the Finland Station and the advent of Communism; color photos of WW1 and WW 11 (image above of wartime Nazi Berlin).

Solar Eclipse at the Antarctic

Nasa, Google, Carnegie-Melon Develop NexGen Gigapixel Camera

NASA and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have teamed to build a robotic device called GigaPans that lets any digital camera to produce gigapixel (billions of pixels) panoramas. (Image is the Waffle at '06 Burning Man Festival).

World's Oldest Known Color Photos -Dating from 1872

Checkout this fascinating collection of the earliest known color photography dating from 1872 with a landscape of Angouleme in Southern France before the Autochrome process was perfected. 130 years ago this view  was created by a "subtractive" method, the basis for all color photography, even today. It was taken by Louis Ducos du Hauron who proposed the method in 1869. It was not until the 1930's that this method was perfected for commercial use.

Other subjects in the collection include color phots from the Russian Empire before Lenin's arrival at the Finland Station and the advent of Communism; color photos of WW1 and WW 11 (image above of wartime Nazi Berlin).