as they shot it, apollo 11 and hasselblads in space..

dasBlute · May 21, 2020

timelines, text and most importantly, images:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/18/science/apollo-11-as-they-shot-it-ul.html

AgX · May 21, 2020

Why all the fuzz about Hasselblads, seen how many camera makes were in space?

Alan Gales · May 21, 2020

I like this one myself.

Louis Nargi · May 21, 2020

Great thanks

Sirius Glass · May 21, 2020

AgX said:
Why all the fuzz about Hasselblads, seen how many camera makes were in space?

Hasselblads were the first in space and the only one in space for a very long time. Hasselblad worked with NASA to develop motor drive, the SWC, 100mm lens, APO 250mm lens and many other advances when no other camera manufacture had any of the equipment to meet NASA's needs.

AgX · May 21, 2020

Hasselblads were not the first cameras in space.
They were nor even yet in existence then...

MattKing · May 21, 2020

Konvas-Avtomat?
Then a modified Leica.
And shortly thereafter, a Minolta Himatic branded as an Ansco Autoset.
The US astronauts who reached the moon must not have liked their Hasselblads, because they left them there.

ic-racer · May 21, 2020

I think it was a camera mounted on a V2 launched from White Sands USA. Of course we know where they got the V2 and I can't imagine the makers of the V2 could not also find a camera in Deutschland and have done the same previously...

ic-racer · May 21, 2020

I'm a Rollei SLR fan, so if you ask me, Rollei SLR was the first camera in space that did not jam...

AgX · May 21, 2020

ic-racer said:
I think it was a camera mounted on a V2 launched from White Sands USA. Of course we know where they got the V2 and I can't imagine the makers of the V2 could not also find a camera in Deutschland and have done the same previously...

Yes. It seems that in Peenemünde no photos of the Earth were made, from that height, but I am not sure about that.
I think to remember some moving images, but I might be wrong.

Had the Soviets been first on the Moon and left cameras there, it likely were Kievs of some kind. And today no-one would speak about them.
Hasselblad and Zeiss though used the space-program for their marketing. And it became common knowledge.

Sirius Glass · May 21, 2020

AgX said:
Hasselblad and Zeiss though used the space-program for their marketing. And it became common knowledge.

After Hasselblad showed it could meet NASA's needs. And why not?

AgX · May 21, 2020

Cameras of so many manufacturers were in space, some models even by many here regarded as shit... which should make one think...

But only the Hasselblads are remembered. And ad hoc no respective marketing by another manufacturer comes to my mind.

AgX · May 21, 2020

It would have been nice for the history of photography if the first man in space would have been taking photographs, but Gagarin did not, though there was a camera on board (directed at him).
First man to do so was his successor in space Titov, who sported a Konvas Avtomat as Matt already hinted at.

ic-racer · May 21, 2020

mshchem · May 22, 2020

ic-racer said:
I'm a Rollei SLR fan, so if you ask me, Rollei SLR was the first camera in space that did not jam...
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I had not know about this. That's a great picture. Too bad there aren't more of these cameras around at affordable prices. Beautiful camera. I've gotten rid of all my Bronica stuff and have fully adopted Hasselblad 503cw and 501cm for my SLR medium format. I still have a beautiful RZ67 II, two bodies and a bunch of lenses. I'm hanging to that for sentimental reasons, I should sell but I'm awfully fond of them.

I wonder how many photos were taken on the surface of the moon when Neil and Buzz were out hopping. Armstrong had the single white painted blad for exterior shots mounted on his suit. 70mm backs. There was a second Hasselblad camera inside the LM for work shooting out the windows. And of course the special Kodak 35mm on a cane of sorts that was used for soil closeups.
Everything that was tossed out the hatch is still there, unless the little green men came and cleaned up the mess

johnha · May 22, 2020

mshchem said:
I wonder how many photos were taken on the surface of the moon when Neil and Buzz were out hopping. Armstrong had the single white painted blad for exterior shots mounted on his suit. 70mm backs. There was a second Hasselblad camera inside the LM for work shooting out the windows. And of course the special Kodak 35mm on a cane of sorts that was used for soil closeups.
Everything that was tossed out the hatch is still there, unless the little green men came and cleaned up the mess

This site should answer most questions, I did see a shot diagram of the landing site somewhere (the positions & directions of each shot on the surface): https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html

abruzzi · May 22, 2020

ic-racer said:

I'm guessing that is not the one that went off course and hit Juarez Mexico...

Larry Cloetta · May 22, 2020

John Glenn’s Ansco and Ed White’s Contarex Special.

https://www.space-collectibles.com/blog/50-years-early-apollo-cameras-and-photos

Sal Santamaura · May 22, 2020

At least the Hasselblads NASA used had Réseau plates in their backs so film bulges from the reverse-curl feed path were squashed flat.

mshchem · May 23, 2020

Sal Santamaura said:
At least the Hasselblads NASA used had Réseau plates in their backs so film bulges from the reverse-curl feed path were squashed flat.

I bet with Photoshop you could get rid of all those annoying lines!

etn · May 23, 2020

dasBlute said:
timelines, text and most importantly, images:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/18/science/apollo-11-as-they-shot-it-ul.html

Excellent site, thanks for sharing!

This reminds me of the typical conversation my girlfriend and I have before going out on weekends: ...

etn · May 23, 2020

ic-racer said:
I'm a Rollei SLR fan, so if you ask me, Rollei SLR was the first camera in space that did not jam...

This seems like a standard film magazine. Did they change rolls in flight?
The Apollo-era Hasselblads had high-capacity mags, loaded and unloaded on the ground.

John Will · May 23, 2020

etn said:
This seems like a standard film magazine. Did they change rolls in flight?
The Apollo-era Hasselblads had high-capacity mags, loaded and unloaded on the ground.

Possibly 220 magazines (24 shots 6x6 or 32 shots 4.5x6) preloaded, easy to change magazines with built in dark slide, even mid roll to use different films.

The lens looks like a 250mm f5.6 Zeiss Sonnar PQS

markbau · May 23, 2020

Hasselblad were experts at cultivating a "mystique" about their brand. Mamiya/Pentax/Bronica could just as easily adapted a medium format camera for the moon but NASA went with Hasselblad and what a great marketing gift! I recall the National Geographic ads that said that they were the camera that NASA chose to take to the moon, they must have sold bucketloads of their overpriced cameras because of NASA's choice!

BrianShaw · May 23, 2020

Same thing happened with watches, and ink pens too.

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