Unbelievable!
That caught me totally by surprise.
I used to follow the so-called Camera Rumors websites but stopped a while back. What I've been hoping for is they would combine a super-pixel with a super-zoom, such as the Sony Cyber-shot 20 megapixel and the integrated 1200 mm maximum optical lens. It's not sexy, I guess, because it's not detachable and not interchangeable, as the Sony Alpha series features.
A Camera Snob might disagree but I really can't see that much difference between the images I capture with either. The Cyber-shot 1200 mm with the integrated lens is what I've used to capture some great images of sunrise and moonrise.
The Sony Alpha has nothing available that is close. Next month a Sony 600 mm begins selling but the lens alone costs at least 4 times as much as the DSC-HX400V camera.
What's unbelievable today is that I just discovered their newest camera. The R4. The Sony A7RIV. That baby features a whopping 61 megapixel sensor.
Not that I see myself purchasing one anytime soon.
But man, with that R4 and the 600 mm lens that would give me images that might compete with my super-zoom camera with its 20 megapixel sensor. The images from the R4 with 600 mm optical zoom when zoomed in and cropped might be comarable to the Cyber-shot 1200 mm optical zoom.
Anyway, that's just fantasy. I can never see me purchasing one of those.
I'm just sitting here wondering what the hell they're doing with this.
Nobody gives a shit about anything unless there is something they personally get out of it.
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From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) To 9/12/2019 ( ) is 10407 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/1/1994 ( Ayrton Senna killed in auto racing incident ) is 10407 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 9/12/2019 is 8333 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/26/1988 ( premiere US film "Hero and the Terror" ) is 8333 days
From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Corbis Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born to brother-sister sibling parents ) To 9/12/2019 is 23330 days
23330 = 11665 + 11665
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/10/1997 ( premiere US TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Bloodlines" ) is 11665 days
From 12/19/1945 ( Harry Truman - Special Message to the Congress Recommending the Establishment of a Department of National Defense ) To 9/12/2019 is 26930 days
26930 = 13465 + 13465
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/14/2002 ( at Overlake hospital in Bellevue Washington State the announced birth of Phoebe Gates the daughter of Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and Microsoft Bill Gates the 100% female gender as born to brother-sister sibling parents ) is 13465 days
From 12/13/1977 ( the Albuquerque New Mexico mugshot photo date from the staged arrest of Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born ) To 9/12/2019 is 15248 days
15248 = 7624 + 7624
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/17/1986 ( premiere US TV series "Head of the Class" ) is 7624 days
From 6/22/1995 ( premiere US film "Apollo 13" ) To 9/12/2019 is 8848 days
8848 = 4424 + 4424
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/13/1977 ( the Albuquerque New Mexico mugshot photo date from the staged arrest of Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born ) is 4424 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) To 9/12/2019 is 11012 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/27/1995 ( premiere US film "Twelve Monkeys" ) is 11012 days
From 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix as the unpublished Formula One driver and the financial partner of McLaren Honda and the legitimate agent of Interpol ) To 9/12/2019 is 10350 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/5/1994 ( premiere US TV series "Weird Science" ) is 10350 days
From 6/11/2005 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: Downtown Emergency Service Center - Seattle ) To 9/12/2019 is 5206 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/3/1980 ( premiere US TV series episode "Galactica 1980"::"Galactica Discovers Earth - Part 2" ) is 5206 days
From 6/11/2005 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: Downtown Emergency Service Center - Seattle ) To 9/12/2019 is 5206 days
5206 = 2603 + 2603
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/18/1972 ( The New York Times "Astronaut Steps Outside Apollo to Retrieve Film" ) is 2603 days
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See also other posts by me on this topic including possible future updates by me and including: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/07/telstar-soon-will-be-making-another-run.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/releaseinfo
IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochran makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.
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Hero and the Terror (1988)
Release Info
USA 26 August 1988
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IMDb
Hero and the Terror (1988)
Full Cast & Crew
Chuck Norris ... Danny O'Brien
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The New York Yimes
ARCHIVES 1972
ASTRONAUT STEPS OUTSIDE APOLLO TO RETRIEVE FILM
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD DEC. 18, 1972
HOUSTON, Dec. 17—Like the barnstoirining wing walkers of yore, Comdr. Ronald E. Evans took a floating walk outside the Apollo 17 space craft today as it sped away from the moon and toward earth.
It was a heady experience for the astronaut, 185,000 miles out in the vacuum of space. As he worked, retrieving film froth the experiment unit, Commander Evans chatted happily, waved to “Mom,” hummed to himself and laughed often.
“Hey, this is great,” the euphoric Commander Evans exclaimed. “Talk about being a spaceman—this is it!”
Apollo 17 was traveling 2, 200 miles an hour when Com mander Eyans opened the hatch at 3:33 P.M., Eastern standard time, and stepped out into space. The excursion was televised in color for Mis sion Control here.
Final Hatch Closing
The extra vehicular activity, or EVA, lasted until 4:20 P.M., when the hatch was closed tight for the rest of the earth ward journey.
Commander Evans, Capt. Eugene A. Cernan of the Navy and Dr. Harrison H. Schmitt, a geologist, are scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:24 P.M. Tuesday. It will bring an end the na tion's lnst moon-landing mis sion in the Apollo series.
Flight controllers reported that the spieeship is “abso lutely nominal.” Its aim on earth, following yesterday's de parture from lunar orbit, is so true that no midcourse correc tive maneuver was required today.
The purpose of Commander Evans's space “walk” was to go to the rear of the command ship and collect three sets of film that had been exposed in lunar orbit. The film was from mapping and panoramic cam eras and from an ultraviolet spectrometer that was search ing for lunar atmosphere.
First Chance Outside
For the EVA, all three astro nauts donned their bulky white pressure suits and breathed oxygen pumped directly into their suits. The cabin was vented of all oxygen, and then the hatch was opened.
“Hot diggety dog!” Com mander Evans exclaimed as he stepped outside.
It was his first chance to move about since the mission's launching, for he had remained in the command ship in lunar orbit while Captain Cernan and Dr. Schmitt roamed about on the moon.
Slowly, he made his way from the hatch back to the rear of the spaceship, holding to han dles attached along the side of the vehicle. His legs floated up and out. On television, he re sembled a Jacques Cousteau diver inspecting an underwater hulk.
Mission Control radioed to him, “America, this Is Houston. You're looking good.”
Commander Evans replied: “When you do an EVA, they use their name, don't they?”
Mission Control replied, “O.K., Ron.”
Commander Evans made three trips to the experiment unit, each time collecting a film cassette and returning it to Dr. Schmitt at the open hatch.
In the excitement of the ex perience, the astronaut's heart rate shot up to 140 beats a minute from a normal rate of 70 to 80. But this had been ex pected and caused flight sur geons no concern.
Paint Is Blistered
Inspecting the spacecraft ex terior, Commander Evans re ported some blistering of the silver paint from heat. He also noticed fine ice particles around the nozzle of the waste water dump valve.
From his vantage point, Commander Evans said that he could see a full moon and a crescent earth.
“The crescent earth is not like a crescent moon,” he ex plained. “It has horns, horns that go all the way round, making an almost three-fourth circle.”
When the astronauts were awakened at 8:20 A.M. today, their spaceship had just come out of the moon's sphere of gravitational influence and was gradually accelerating from the increasing pull of the earth's gravity. The crossover came when Apollo 17 was 38,900 miles from the moon and 197,800 miles from earth.
“America, you're now under earth control,” Mission Control informed the astronauts when they were awakened.
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 12:10 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 24 July 2019
