Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!amdcad!military From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: film quality in gun cameras Message-ID: <1991Apr23.053737.23681@amd.com> Date: 18 Apr 91 22:59:41 GMT Sender: military@amd.com Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Lines: 29 Approved: military@amd.com From: Mary Shafer Derek E. Terveer (det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG) writes: > Moving on to somewhat more modern times, I assume that we still have, as > a rule, gun cameras on our (US) fighters. No, there are no more gun cameras in fighters. > What kind of film is used and > why? How much film (physical length as well as time duration) is loaded? No film, video tape. The standard 2/4/6 hr VHS tapes that you use at home. The HUD camera is also recorded onto this kind of tape. The only difference is that it's black and white. It also tends to be a little tacky, with the frame sync bit kind of goofy. There's also a herringbone pattern that sometimes appears. One corroberation of this is how quickly they had the gun/missile/weapon camera film to show at the briefings. It takes a while to convert from film to video and this lag would have showed up. It also looked like video and I've watched a certain amount of this stuff. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot