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From: whisky-dave on 15 Jun 2010 09:18 "Alfred Molon" <alfred_molon(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:MPG.26815f15702b12f598c32d(a)news.supernews.com... > In article <m4td16lmsrlibrngmbiokaj2n5ghrig50b(a)4ax.com>, Robert Coe > says... >> Why should it matter to any of us what equipment NASA uses? > > Perhaps NASA only chooses the very best cameras? Doesn't that depend on the actual chooser. I know of a professor of astronomy that received a letter/email from NASA and it refered to him as being an astrologer !
From: Pete on 15 Jun 2010 09:24 On 2010-06-15 14:18:03 +0100, whisky-dave said: > "Alfred Molon" <alfred_molon(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:MPG.26815f15702b12f598c32d(a)news.supernews.com... >> In article <m4td16lmsrlibrngmbiokaj2n5ghrig50b(a)4ax.com>, Robert Coe >> says... >>> Why should it matter to any of us what equipment NASA uses? >> >> Perhaps NASA only chooses the very best cameras? > > Doesn't that depend on the actual chooser. > I know of a professor of astronomy that received a letter/email from > NASA and it refered to him as being an astrologer ! I bet that was unpredicted. -- Pete
From: John McWilliams on 15 Jun 2010 09:48 Pete wrote: > On 2010-06-15 14:18:03 +0100, whisky-dave said: > >> >> Doesn't that depend on the actual chooser? >> I know of a professor of astronomy that received a letter/email from >> NASA and it referred to him as being an astrologer ! > > I bet that was unpredicted. Ta-dum! But it musta been in the stars. -- john mcwilliams
From: Tzortzakakis Dimitris on 15 Jun 2010 15:03 � "Ray Fischer" <rfischer(a)sonic.net> ������ ��� ������ news:4c172c65$0$1605$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net... > RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>http://dpreview.com/news/1006/10061402nikoniss.asp > > Odd. I didn't know that the "Russian segment of the > International Space Station" was NASA. > Nyet! -- Tzortzakakis Dimitrios major in electrical engineering mechanized infantry reservist hordad AT otenet DOT gr
From: Eric Stevens on 15 Jun 2010 20:28
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:15:12 +0100, "whisky-dave" <whisky-dave(a)final.front.ear> wrote: > >"RichA" <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >news:c7d7beb1-dc44-405f-b229-db5b5382fc03(a)z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... >On Jun 14, 5:42 pm, Bowser <Ca...(a)Nikon.Panny> wrote: >> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:57:28 -0700 (PDT), RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >http://dpreview.com/news/1006/10061402nikoniss.asp >> >> Maybe they've "shunned" other brands because of the massive inventory >> of Nikon gear they've accumulated. > >They won't be cobbling old legacy lenses on those bodies, so the old >gear has nothing to do with anything. > >maybe that got a good part exchange deal, there's a recession on you know >;-) > I think it is more likely that its because they already have spent a fortune (many thousands of dollars per pound) getting Nikon gear up there. If they take up a non-compatible camera they have to spend another fortune getting all the support gear it requires up with it. Eric Stevens |