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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: feppe on December 31, 2011, 07:47:21 am

Title: Hasselblad, in space
Post by: feppe on December 31, 2011, 07:47:21 am

I visited NASA's A Human Adventure (http://ahumanadventure.com/) traveling exhibition in Madrid, and they had a display of various cameras used on their missions. Attached some pics.

Camera #1 is marked as "Apollo-Soyuz Test Project," #2 is "Apollo Camera," (these were not Hasselblads), and #6 is "Apollo Lunar Surface Hasselblad Camera." When leaving the moon, they left the lens and camera mechanism behind to save weight; only the film magazines returned. Also shown a display of 70mm frames from Apollo 12 mission. Sorry for the poor quality: the display was quite dark and no flash photography was allowed.

The exhibition itself was very impressive, including a good overview of NASA's (and surprisingly Russia's) accomplishments and history of space race starting from the visions of Jules Verne. Plenty of original and replica artifacts, including scale models of the rockets, Hubble and ISS. There were some quite nice photographic prints on display as well.

Too bad NASA is not going to be putting men in space in the foreseeable future; that's left to commercial endeavors, us Europeans, and the Chinese (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/usa/china/2011-12/30/content_14354043.htm). At least the US Congress recently re-funded a new James Webb Space Telescope (http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/), which will have a 33 megapixel camera (several, in fact).

Title: Re: Hasselblad, in space
Post by: Rob C on December 31, 2011, 04:51:54 pm

Well, I'm not thinking of going all the way up there just to get back into the 'blad system!

Rob C

Title: Re: Hasselblad, in space
Post by: Chris Livsey on January 01, 2012, 05:27:30 am

The ultimate disposable camera.

Title: Re: Hasselblad, in space
Post by: ced on January 01, 2012, 08:18:25 am

A bit more junk polluting the galaxy.

Title: Re: Hasselblad, in space
Post by: jduncan on January 01, 2012, 02:32:39 pm

Happy new year,

How have time changed;

Nowadays it's almost  all nikon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwpgOzLUZls

Also this beautiful time lapse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev9oPUNaqXE&feature=related

Russians are using Nikon's too. I dont' know about ESA by the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e8NLNej6mC8


Maybe when people go back to the moon they may carry a medium format camera to do some "moonscaping"

Thanks for the images.

Best regards,

James