Why have the Russians never made digital cameras?

GSNfan said:
For that photo to be staged would mean the whole war was staged and the whole scene in the background would had to be 'staged'.

Its a real photo and best WWII photo imo. I liked this photo long before i even picked up photography.
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I agree this is a great photo. But it was heavily retouched. It is actually a combination of various photos taken on different days, the smoke was added for the dramatic effect, a person was removed entirely and the soldiers arms were originally full of looted watches...

EDIT: Returning to the threads topic: I guess the Russians were so good at manipulating photographs, they just had no need for Photoshop or for digital photography. 😉
 
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GSNfan said:
What I'm trying to say is that according to rules of war you can use the technology of those you defeated and that is not knocking off.
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Which rule of war would that be? WWII was a exception in that the Nazis had broken just about every rule of war (and criminal law), and hence had to be treated special. But I'm not aware of a general rule that would e.g. permit the People's Republic of Vietnam to copy every US product patented prior to 1975...
 
bobby_novatron said:
Chapters could include: the 'Buran' space shuttle
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Actually, outward similarities aside, the Buran was rather different from the Shuttle. It was based on a fundamentally different design approach - the Space Shuttle included a huge engine and basically launched under its own power with a huge external tank, while the Buran was launched by a separate booster. Outwardly looks similar to the Shuttle, but internally it was quite radically different, and I guess the similarity is because there were only so many ways you could build an orbiter with re-entry capabilities and a large payload bay.
 
sevo said:
Which rule of war would that be? WWII was a exception in that the Nazis had broken just about every rule of war (and criminal law), and hence had to be treated special. But I'm not aware of a general rule that would e.g. permit the People's Republic of Vietnam to copy every US product patented prior to 1975...
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I don't think there's anything special about WWII here. German intellectual property was expropriated quite conventionally as part of the good old war reparations, which was possible because Germany had been completely and utterly defeated. If Vietnam had been in any position to impose reparations on the US, they could have done the same.
 
rxmd said:
I don't think there's anything special about WWII here. German intellectual property was expropriated quite conventionally as part of the good old war reparations, which was possible because Germany had been completely and utterly defeated. If Vietnam had been in any position to impose reparations on the US, they could have done the same.
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Yep, that's one of the reasons we got the M ... to reinstate some new patents
 
rbiemer said:
Digital Horizon:
http://www.digifotopro.nl/artikel/2330029/photokina-digitale-zenit-horizon-d-l3-video-

Supposed to ship in April 2011 and priced between 1000 and 1500 Euros.

The photo of the camera looks to be the same as the one at Zenit's site.
3 separate sensors--one for each of the three lenses--of 5MP each to give a 12MP file. I think, based on the google translated page.

Roger, your info of 10MP sensors makes more sense, though. Did you or Frances get to take any photos with it?
Rob
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Dear Rob,

No, we were only photographed with it, and weren't given a copy. I'm pretty sure it was 3x10 but now you've planted the doubt in my mind...

Cheers,

R.
 
Digital Horizon has 3 sensors of 5 Megapixels each. I`ve seen prototype 3 days ago on Moscow PhotoExpo 2011 show.

In regard of other `attempts` in digital cameras or `cameras` in current time:
KMZ:
- Digital Horizon.
- Binoculars with digital camera recording, purpose: military and semi-military.
- Some `secret` modular digital camera close to 4/3 system for military and semi-military purpose (this is rumor)
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Forgotten project of Zenit-405D - 36*24 combined (from several sections) sensor M42 SLR. Was at stage of paper project at least.


VOMZ:
- Production of digital sensors for ... thermographic cameras to be used in tanks, helicopters, aircraft. You got the idea.

Space:
- Elektro-L meteorological satellite made by NPO Lavochkin, it has russian made sensor (multi-sensors + infrared sensor system) afaik
 
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