Like to share this beautiful pics with you.

[Iceman]

Ground control to Major Tom....right on great pics.

[Camaero]

Those are amazing! That is a damn fine camera that took those... it looks so damn crisp.

Those are some top notch photos fish. Thank you!!

[Fish]

Found more, looks like a paintbox.

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/11...resjpgs/15.jpg

[TteFAboB]

Wow! That camera is way better than mine's.

[P_Funk]

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!

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by P_Funk

My country owns all of you!

Give Canada a finger, and they take an arm!

[Tchocky]

Imagine how clear it must be up there, without an atmosphere of dirt to filter sunlight

[bookworm_020]

I would love to travel in space to be able to get photos like this.

I wold also love to do this

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

Beats bungee jumping anyday!

[antikristuseke]

Incredible pictures, thaks for sharing. These pictures reminded me why im fascinated with science

[kiwi_2005]

Wow, very cool pictures.

[fatty]

Originally Posted by P_Funk

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! 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]

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...07_nasa_01.htm
http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/news...f5eva_e_00.htm

and this

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk...ws_138495.html