Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!jetson.uh.edu!cheehh From: Arora@uh.edu Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Visit to Houston Space Centre...?clo Message-ID: <7825.27551b15@jetson.uh.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 20:28:35 GMT References: <524@newave.UUCP> Organization: University of Houston Lines: 24 In article <524@newave.UUCP>, john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) writes: > > 6. Mission Control - Tickets required, get them at the info desk in the > visitors center. You get to sit in the observation area and look at the > mission control room for 10 minutes. Because of the thick glass, it is > nearly impossible to get any type of photos. > It's not that hard getting good photographs at Mission Control. For starters, use a 35 mm SLR camera and not a toy. Then go all the way to the front and put the lens right up against the glass. On my last visit, I used Gold-100 film and got great shots with a 28 mm lens (f/2.8, 1/30 s) and 50 mm lens (f/1.4, 1/60 s) without using a flash. They tell you that you can use a flash but I found that, even by putting the lens against the glass, the reflection from the *second* layer of glass got me. Also, the room is large enough to be out of the control range of most flashes anyway. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ............. | Rikhit Arora And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod | cheehh@uhupvm1.bitnet The high untrespassed sanctity of space, | Arora@uh.edu Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------