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I was out playing with a couple of my vintage cameras at the weekend, and visited the Nene Valley Railway near Peterborough. As a comparison, I took two very similar shots withe two very different cameras:

This picture was taken with a Russian Cosmic 35, which when new (1960s) would have been one of the cheapest cameras you could buy that wasn't a toy. The camera has a 40mm f4 fixed lens with scale focussing.

Compare to this similar shot, taken with an Exakta VX1000 SLR camera, which is about the same age as the Cosmic, but would have been many times more expensive.

But which is best when judged today?

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cosmic speculation (98) by ian manchester

COSMIC JIBARO by Santos Torres

Cosmic Designs by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Caption: Members of NASA's Goddard's multimedia team attend rehersal at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD for the production Cosmic Designs with the National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Credit: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth

For Gustav Holst and Claude Debussy, the beauty of Earth and its surrounding planets inspired them not to collect data, but to compose music. Now, 100 years after the first performance of Holst’s “The Planets,” audiences had a chance to hear their music and see depictions of our awe-inspiring solar system simultaneously.

On Jan 27 and 28, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, in collaboration with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, presented Cosmic Designs at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD. In this marriage of music and space imagery, the orchestra performed Claude Debussy’s “La Mer” and Gustav Holst’s “The Planets.” Video producers at Goddard worked to collect depictions of our solar system’s planets, as well as Earth’s oceans to accompany the music. Using both satellite pictures and animations, this presentation illustrated tones in the music, making the audible narrative in the music come alive visually.

Read more about NASA's contribution: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/cosmic-designs-at-the-i...

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