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!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hjuxa!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo,net.columbia Subject: Re: What kind of film do the astronauts use? Message-ID: <2003@peora.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 08:51:04 EST Article-I.D.: peora.2003 Posted: Fri Mar 7 08:51:04 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 22:47:35 EST References: <1086@decwrl.DEC.COM> <1972@peora.UUCP> <510@tekig4.UUCP> <2207@utcsri.UUCP> <14789@onfcanim.UUCP> Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Orlando, Fl Lines: 36 Xref: watmath net.rec.photo:1886 net.columbia:2598 > And no, a Hasselblad couldn't be used for moving pictures. > [... long counterargument following up on a prior posting's long argument > on whether or not the astronauts used a Hasselblad to film IMAX movies...] Well, folks, I am a little surprised at this long debate, because when I posted the original "what kind of film" question (<1972@peora.UUCP>), I *knew* the astronauts didn't film the IMAX movies with a Hasselblad! The first followup posting (<2207@utcsri.UUCP>) which said I was "wrong" because the Hasselblad was a still camera was right about the facts, but wrong about what I had originally asked! I said, "I know the IMAX camera uses some kind of less-familiar film [70mm], but they also make still photos with a Hasselblad, which uses ordinary 120 film, (which *is* much more familiar) so I wondered if anybody knew what they used in the Hasselblads." Eugene Miya at NASA eventually wrote (as did a number of others) to say that they used a wide variety of films, including Kodachrome, as well as a variety of special-purpose films for aerial photography. Several people also wrote to point out that the light in space is essentially from a point source, which would tend to increase the apparent contrast (and also the effects of fine surface features of the things being photographed) because the shadows are not filled in by the diffuse light from the sky, increasing the contrast between the lighted and shadowed parts. (So I guess things really *do* look better in space... imagine someday when they fly a Ford Taurus up there to do a commercial... :-) (well, it will certainly be better than hearing "NOW, there's an AMERICAN car..." for the 1e10th time...)) -- 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 LOTD(6)=B ---------------------- Amusing error message explaining reason for some returned mail recently: > 554 xxxxxx.xxxxxx.ATT.UUCP!xxx... Unknown domain address: Not a typewriter (The above message is true... only the names have been changed...)