Thread: Stars + Video

It has something to do with film exposure I think. I was explained this once, I think it has something to do with the intensity of the light from the stars?

Probably has something to do with gray scale. As far as I know, almost all of space footage is done in sunlight, so the subject of the film can be seen. This, in turn, prevents the camera from "seeing" the stars.

Example: when you are in a bright room, you can see everything in it, but if the lights are suddenly turned off, with only a little light getting in, you can't see anything for a while. When your eyes do adjust to see some gray within the black, you lose a lot of detail. Same thing backwards, with color in the white.

When this happens to a camera, the camera adjusts its gray scale to optimize close-range subjects. This adjustment in space, where there is little atmosphere to "filter" the light, prevents the camera from having a wide enough range to see those stars. Due to the sun being a very powerful light source, this happens continuously.