Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> If I were designing a video camera for use in this kind of environment, 
> I'd use multiple cameras with different settings and composite them 
> together, or try to find a sensor with sufficient dynamic range. It 
> could be as simple as a thin layer on the CCD that changes local opacity 
> depending on the brightness of light on it. It could be passive, like 
> today's color changing sunglasses, or an active liquid crystal filter. 
> Or you could make a filter that varies in opacity evenly over the entire 
> filter, and just take consecutive frames at different opacity levels, 
> processing them together into the final image as you would with multiple 
> cameras.

  All this to simply get some white dots on the image?-)

  Space movies often exaggerate the beautiness of stars in space, but
I wouldn't be surprised if actually they were just extremely boring
white dots... :)
  The images of the Hubble telescope are marvelously beautiful... But those
images are photographind details thousands of light-years big. You don't
get that kind of colorful images when photographing a planet or a
spaceship...

  But anyways, the point is making a visually pleasant artistic image,
not a physically correct one. :)

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