A little analog triumph...

Marco B

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... or should I say BIG, as the subject of the photo is one of the worlds largests launch vehicles...

I had to smile a bit when I noticed this picture by Ben Cooper and made in 2007 during the launch of a Delta 4 Heavy Rocket, and published also in the Decembre issue of Popular Photography that I was reading, was actually taken using an analog Nikon N2000 using 400 ISO film. According to the article in Popular Photography, the camera was remotely triggered using a sound trigger that was thrown backwards a 100 feet at launch. Camera set at 1/125 seconds F8 and continuous shooting... The camera lens was "sandblasted" by the 4 miles per second blast and debris at a 1000 degrees... but the body still worked and the film was fine

The stunning photo on another site:
Launch of Delta 4 rocket by Ben Cooper

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Did you happen to click 'next' and see the photo of the model next to the mock up? Now compared to the rocket exhaust, that picture is HOT! <grin>
 

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Did you happen to click 'next' and see the photo of the model next to the mock up? Now compared to the rocket exhaust, that picture is HOT! <grin>

Jeez, guys, that's my sister you're talking about!
 
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