69th anniversity of first photograph from space

[Platapus]

http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the...721411/?no-ist (http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-first-photo-from-space-13721411/?no-ist)

http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/33/d1/33d15156-47cd-4307-9c23-e3c8498539f5/1stphotofromspacejpg__600x0_q85_upscale.jpg__800x6 00_q85_crop.jpg

Taken at an altitude of 65 miles, which is above the Karman line. 35mm movie camera placed in a captured German V-2. There was no re-entry system and no parachutes. The film was protected by a steel casket.

When the rocket came down, it made a nice V-2 shaped hole in the desert. The ground crew was surprised that the film survived.

69 Years later any person with an Internets Tubes account can access Googlemaps and get high resolution pictures of ... almost... every where on the earth. :up:

[Rhodes]

I wonder what film and developer was used.:hmmm:

Great post:up:!

[Stealhead]

They launched several captured V2s from White Sands NM. I wonder which direction the camera faced. Is that New Mexico or Mexico in the distance.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice :yep:

[Jimbuna]

I wonder what film and developer was used.:hmmm:

Great post:up:!

Good question. All I can find is the fact it was a 35-millimeter motion picture camera.

The first camera used by an astronaut was a Hasselblad 500c but that wasn't until 1962.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2834812/Sold-Unique-Hasselblad-camera-used-capture-recognisable-images-Earth-fetches-275-000-auction.html

[Commander Wallace]

Awesome :up:

[Rhodes]

Good question. All I can find is the fact it was a 35-millimeter motion picture camera.

The first camera used by an astronaut was a Hasselblad 500c but that wasn't until 1062.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2834812/Sold-Unique-Hasselblad-camera-used-capture-recognisable-images-Earth-fetches-275-000-auction.html

Possible a fast aerial film. Yep, Hassies did go to the Moon!

[Betonov]

Something tells me it was a Karl Zeiss lense

[Rhodes]

Or a Leica one...:O::D. It could be a kodak lens also

[Betonov]

They did borrow a German rocket for a one way trip, why not a German camera :03:

[Aktungbby]

Good question. All I can find is the fact it was a 35-millimeter motion picture camera.

The first camera used by an astronaut was a Hasselblad 500c but that wasn't until 1062.


Of some interest: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102814a-auction-space-hasselblad-camera.html (http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102814a-auction-space-hasselblad-camera.html)

[Betonov]

The first camera used by an astronaut was a Hasselblad 500c but that wasn't until 1062.


Did that astrounaut later fight with William the conqueror or with king Harold :hmmm:

[Aktungbby]

Did that astrounaut later fight with William the conqueror or with king Harold :hmmm:

:har: I was gonna go there too but restrained myself:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/BayeuxTapestryScene55.jpg" Ok men! Hang tough...Photo op!" Willy the Bastard of Normandy shows his face to the troops to restore morale at a critical point at Hastings...

[Betonov]

That scene looks more like he is giving the first half of the ''eyes on the road'' gesture

[Rhodes]

Yep, that was a decisive moment!:D

[Jimbuna]

Did that astrounaut later fight with William the conqueror or with king Harold :hmmm:

I'll fix that :03:

I'd poke a guess at Darth the Derailer.

[Aktungbby]

Or a Leica one...:O::D. It could be a kodak lens also http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-102814d.jpg (http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-102814d-lg.jpg) ZEISS WITH A HUNDRED SHOT FILM PACK. "[More than fifty] years ago, a still unknown Walter Schirra entered a Houston photo supply shop and purchased a Hasselblad 500C," Hasselblad USA states on its website. "Thinking to take his new purchase up on a space shot with him, Schirra stripped the leatherette from the body of the Hasselblad and painted its metal surface black in order to minimize reflections. And when he climbed aboard an [Atlas] rocket in October 1962, he took his Hasselblad with him."



Schirra, who died in 2007, told a NASA interviewer in 1998 that he "got the Hasselblad" after consulting with LIFE and National Geographic magazine photographers about what model camera they would recommend. The modifications to the camera, Schirra said, were made by a laboratory at Cape Canaveral."

[Rhodes]

^We where talking about the lens, of the camera, of the V2!
Not about the Hasselblads that went to space and return! :woot:

In a curious note, the finest and possible best lens that ever existed were made by kodak, the trouble was, only a government could pay what would they cost...(have to check better the story, because I writing from memory).

[Aktungbby]

I wonder what film and developer was used.:hmmm:

Great post:up:!

Good question. All I can find is the fact it was a 35-millimeter motion picture camera.

The first camera used by an astronaut was a Hasselblad 500c but that wasn't until 1962.



^We where talking about the lens, of the camera, of the V2!
Not about the Hasselblads that went to space and return! :woot:

In a curious note, the finest and possible best lens that ever existed were made by kodak, the trouble was, only a government could pay what would they cost...(have to check better the story, because I writing from memory). Whoops!:damn: http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=4722 (http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=4722) The first video shows the camera and its casing but I cannot determine its manufacture. One source say:" V-2 instrument technician Clyde Holliday modified a 35mm DeVry movie camera to withstand the shock ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JsnNdioxQM with Eastman xx film; aperture 5.6; shutter speed 1/50 second and 4 frames per second. :yeah: Considering my recently acquired Spirit first-transmitted Mars shot, this is of great interest to me as well.