Remembering the first time I saw a deep space photo on film

I dug out my old astronomy magazines from the 90s and compared them to the stacked digital shots I took last month of the Orion Nebula. The difference in detail is just wild, you can see knots of gas in the digital that were just a fuzzy blob back then. Has anyone else noticed how much better modern processing brings out faint stuff like the Horsehead?

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parkerb7524d ago

The 1990s Hubble Deep Field shot on film actually had way more character than most modern stacked images. I mean, those old Kodak Tech Pan emulsions picked up a warmth and glow that digital processing kind of kills flat. Idk, maybe there's something lost when every faint wisp gets mathematically sharpened into a hard edge.

oscarwright24d ago

Yeah but that film grain is just noise from the actual film getting old over time.