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Fish
10-12-07, 06:44 AM
http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm
Skybird
10-12-07, 06:50 AM
:up: Thanks very much. Impressive shots.
ReallyDedPoet
10-12-07, 06:55 AM
Nice, very nice :yep:


RDP
Huskalar
10-12-07, 07:00 AM
They're beautiful, thanks. :up:
The Avon Lady
10-12-07, 08:04 AM
I don't wanna bungee jump. :nope:

But I do wanna space walk. :yep:
bradclark1
10-12-07, 08:07 AM
Impressive pics.:up:
Tchocky
10-12-07, 08:11 AM
Bah, it's clearly a soundstage in Houston.

And as for the Moon landing..


Nice pictures :)
Venatore
10-12-07, 08:14 AM
Thank you for sharing. Its amazing that we are so small, yet look at how crazy this world has become.
Oberon
10-12-07, 08:26 AM
"Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do..."

Great shots! :up:
mookiemookie
10-12-07, 10:40 AM
:up:
STEED
10-12-07, 11:16 AM
They are fake and I know why. :shifty:

Bleep, bleep, bang crash wallop C.I.A man "Shut up STEED here's £5000 now clam it."



Wow those pictures I so real. :D
Biggles
10-12-07, 11:18 AM
Second pic is actually about a year old. From the space mission sent up in December. I can tell, 'cause one of the astronauts is Christer Fuglesang, the first (and this far only) swede in space. Picture was all over the news. It's obviously New Zeeland that can be seen. If the other pictures are from the same mission, I cannot tell.
Sailor Steve
10-12-07, 11:26 AM
So, what game are those screenies from?:rotfl:


Gorgeous shots! Thanks!:rock:
geetrue
10-12-07, 11:45 AM
Only five downloaded, but they sure were purtty ...

Just like being there ... :yep:
FIREWALL
10-12-07, 11:50 AM
I'm blown away. :up: Great pics
Iceman
10-12-07, 02:55 PM
Ground control to Major Tom....right on great pics. :up:
Camaero
10-12-07, 03:05 PM
Those are amazing! That is a damn fine camera that took those... it looks so damn crisp.
waste gate
10-12-07, 03:19 PM
Those are some top notch photos fish. Thank you!!:up:
Fish
10-12-07, 03:49 PM
Found more, looks like a paintbox. ;)

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/118_gallery/hi-resjpgs/15.jpg
TteFAboB
10-12-07, 08:43 PM
Wow! That camera is way better than mine's.
P_Funk
10-13-07, 02:53 AM
Its more hi res than my own eyes I think. Looks like the kind of realism that comes from 2048x AA. Like when you're playing a game where everyone is a bit too smooth. Whats a camera like that run for?

EDIT.
My country owns all of you!
http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASApix11.jpg
The Avon Lady
10-13-07, 01:04 PM
My country owns all of you!
Give Canada a finger, and they take an arm!
Tchocky
10-13-07, 01:38 PM
Imagine how clear it must be up there, without an atmosphere of dirt to filter sunlight :)
bookworm_020
10-14-07, 11:36 PM
I would love to travel in space to be able to get photos like this.:up:

I wold also love to do this:yep:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior

Beats bungee jumping anyday!:rock:
antikristuseke
10-14-07, 11:42 PM
Incredible pictures, thaks for sharing. These pictures reminded me why im fascinated with science:)
kiwi_2005
10-14-07, 11:46 PM
Wow, very cool pictures.
fatty
10-15-07, 09:20 AM
Its more hi res than my own eyes I think. Looks like the kind of realism that comes from 2048x AA. Like when you're playing a game where everyone is a bit too smooth. Whats a camera like that run for?


The camera is possibly not too special. There was no EXIF information embedded in the photos so I cannot tell you the model - they may have been captured on film rather than digital. The conditions in space are special, though. As somebody else noted there isn't any atmospheric garbage to fuzz up your photos. Compare landscapes from industrial New Jersey and from the Arctic Circle and you might see what I mean. Up there also you will have a perfect light source; nothing between you and the sun! :sunny: The only on-camera system I can think of that could be unique is some sort of shielding from all the radiation and interference bouncing around up there.

They're beautiful pics at any rate, thanks for sharing.
seafarer
10-15-07, 12:01 PM
I thought that Nikon supplied the photographic equipment onboard the shuttle fleet? I know I've seen file photo's of crew inside the shuttle living quarters with an array of Nikor lenses and Nikon digital cameras in view. On Nikon's press pages, they had an aritcle about the special housings they prepared for the shuttle's SB-800 flash untis, and they have used F5-based digital cameras for external shots before.

http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/news/2005/0907_nasa_01.htm
http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/news/2000/f5eva_e_00.htm

and this

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/nikon_cameras_in_nasa_shuttle_launches_news_138495 .html