60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal details
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·September 13, 2025isoprophlex
glimshe
Great lenses with huge film frames. It's doable in digital, but not on a Smartphone or budget SLR.
lm28469
Medium format film (120, 6x6), Hasselblad cameras. I personally think we're barely starting to match the quality of medium format film with modern medium format sensors
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/camera-hasselb...
tecleandor
Film in big formats is incredible, gives great images even on shitty cameras...
laborcontract
Note: this has nothing to do with Gemini, Google's latest image editing model.
randomtoast
The name comes from Latin "gemini" meaning "twins," referring to the mythological Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda. In mythology, Pollux was immortal, Castor mortal; their story is connected with themes of brotherhood and sacrifice.
Project Gemini was NASA's second human spaceflight program (1961-1966), preceding Apollo. It developed spaceflight techniques such as orbital rendezvous and docking, essential for the Moon landing.
Gemini is also a lightweight internet protocol and associated ecosystem (the Gemini Protocol), designed as a middle ground between Gopher and the modern web (HTTP/HTTPS), emphasizing simplicity and privacy.
It is also the name of Google's multimodal AI model, successor to Bard (announced 2023).
OJFord
Which, had it been around anything close to 60 years, could have been confusing!
No amount of computational smartphone photography can match, in my eyes, the clarity and contrast and intensity of whatever analogue medium these were captured on.
This looks gorgeous. I'm extremely tempted to splurge on this, and the Apollo, books...