Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hjuxa!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo,net.columbia Subject: What kind of film do the astronauts use? Message-ID: <1972@peora.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 09:02:33 EST Article-I.D.: peora.1972 Posted: Mon Feb 17 09:02:33 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Feb-86 04:14:27 EST References: <1086@decwrl.DEC.COM> Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Orlando, Fl Lines: 29 Xref: watmath net.rec.photo:1833 net.columbia:2384 > I was watching a guy take pictures out of the window of an airplane (which > is usually a waste of time anyway) ... This made me think of a question I have been wondering about for about a month. About a month ago, I went to see the "The Dream is Alive" movie which has the pictures taken from the Space Shuttle, and it made me curious what kind of film the astronauts use to photograph the earth. If you're just in a commercial airplane and you photograph the ground, the pictures don't usually come out very well, because the haze in the air even at that altitude badly reduces the contrast. This made me wonder whether the photos made from the Space Shuttle, which have to go through far more atmosphere than that, use a special film? Actually another thing also made me wonder this, viz., the films made with the IMAX camera of the satellites coming out of the cargo bay, as well as a number of the other "space" pictures, seem to have unusually high color saturation; it resembles the Vericolor Commercial Film that's used to photograph cars and food and the like to make them look more appealing in advertisements. Also, the astronauts seemed to have unusually exaggerated skin color in some of the segments, which also is a characteristic of that type of film. I assume the IMAX film is some specially-made film, but since they also use a Hasselblad (which they even show them using at one place in the film) I hoped they might at least be using some familiar kind of film there... does anybody know what they use? -- UUCP: Ofc: jer@peora.UUCP Home: jer@jerpc.CCUR.UUCP CCUR DNS: peora, pesnta US Mail: MS 795; CONCURRENT Computer Corp. SDC; (A Perkin-Elmer Company) 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642