There's no controversy.  It looks like a panned image from the moon, but what
you refer to as a puff of smoke is pixel-noise.  It's an artifact of the
combined effects of low analog resolution (few bits), and aliasing of the detail
against the low digital resolution.  You see it in modern cameras, but to a
lesser extent, since both types of resolution are higher.  Of course, it's
possible to get more aliasing effects with higher digital resolution (more
pixels), but it isn't likely as resolution keeps going up.


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