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Old May 28th 08, 03:42 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Wolfgang Weisselberg
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Default NASA's Mars probe: NO cmos, NO Bayer

Chris Malcolm wrote:

Most unlikely. The problem with LEDs as light sources for photography
is that they're too spectrally pure.


NASA isn't interested in "photography" as we understand it,
except for PR.
They are interested in data --- and some of that data wants
spectrally relatively pure light.

-Wolfgang