War Stories: Color House Tales

“OK, what technical glitch did you spot?” he asks.

“Nothing,” I reply. “I knew you’d have all the technical details covered, so I just asked myself, ‘Does this shot move me?’ If yes, I put it in the film pile. If no, I put it in the digital pile.”

Astronomy Magazine has taught me a lot about digital photography. Astronomers got into digital imaging long before catalogers, and they study it far more deeply. What interests me most about their struggles with digital imaging are the huge inaccuracies in the digital chips.