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How many Hasselblad's are on the Moon?

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I think we just found a way to fund the next moon mission: auction the 12 'blads upon their return to our green hills.
 
I said that once... "Go back get the camera's and sell them". I am guessing it would cost More than 12 Billion to collect all 12. I have little doubt they they would still work... that is if they had batteries.

BTW... I met and to some extent know Armstong and Cernan. I have no doubt that we went to the moon. I personally have heard Cernan address the doubter's his conviction is the same as a father defending his daughter's honor.

If we had "faked" going to the moon... would we have done so good of job?! That's my opinion.
 
tomalophicon said:
I wonder if there will ever be a Bronica on the moon.
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Probably not. There was almost a Nikon digicompact thing up there after I tried it and realised that twenty years of "progress" had produced something only slightly smaller than my Pentax ME Super but without the image quality... :laugh:

The Hasselblads might well still work, it depends on how the moon dust has treated them. I know there's a credible theory that the "one small step for a man" was probably obliterated by the ascent stage of the LEM, which would have blown dust around for a considerable distance.
 
vpwphoto said:
BTW... I met and to some extent know Armstong and Cernan. I have no doubt that we went to the moon. I personally have heard Cernan address the doubter's his conviction is the same as a father defending his daughter's honor.

If we had "faked" going to the moon... would we have done so good of job?! That's my opinion.
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And some people seem to not realize that if it were fake, the Soviets would have gleefully debunked it. They were certainly able to determine where the communications were coming from. They knew we got there.
 
There aren't any more Hasselblads on the moon. The aliens beamed them up to replace their inferior digital cameras.
 
Can you buy Tri-X on the moon?
 
I wonder what films they used probably Kodak. They also left the Moon buggies up there so if we go back get some new batteries and go for a ride!
 
12 too many!
 
The astronauts used Kodak color film that was coated on special thin base so that they could get more exposures / roll or magazine full. The film was pretested in vacuum at low and high temperature to assure quality in spite of the possibility of losing some of the volatile materials due to the conditions found on the moon.

PE
 
I knew PE would have the scoop on the film. Was it slide or negative? I guess calculating exposure on the Moon would be tough.
 
Marvin said:
I knew PE would have the scoop on the film. Was it slide or negative? I guess calculating exposure on the Moon would be tough.
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I'm not sure at this time. I only saw internegatives, but I believe that a bit of both were shot. I know that the orbital shots used a lot of ECN for stills which were then printed on ECP for slides and onto color paper.

Some of the recovery shots were done on HS Ektachrome cross processed to give negatives. The shot of Sheppard on Life magazine was one such. The HS Ektachrome was pushed to ISO 400 from 160

PE
 
Meh. They left ALL of 'em!!!

They wanted *excellent* photos so they brought back their Mamiya's!!! ;-)
 
That is some cool info Mr. Photo Engineer. Never thought about volatiles evaporating in the vacuum.
I always wondered about the Gamma radiation fogging the film... was there lead linings on the Blads?

I talked with David Wolf (shuttle man), he spoke about how much radiation he received daily on the space station.
Wolf said that in the Russian part of the station some of the windows are not lead glass and your hair will burn right off your arm when the sun shines directly through.
 
It's funny to hear all the youngsters (my assumption) whining about leaving the cameras on the moon. Every aspect down to the last ounce was calculated. A the lunar Hasselblads had a mass of about 2 pounds.. that is a lot of rock samples.
THe cameras that were in the command module made it home, what an impressive accomplishment. Every time I see Mr (Comander) Amrstron (and Cernan) I am in awe that they got on top of that rocket and figured just a 40% chance of making it back home (Armstrong at least, Cernan had confidence as it had been done.) PS Cernan piloted the lunar lander TWICE two different trips to the moon. He joked that he would have landed it on Apollo 10 (lunar decent test mission) if he had enough fuel to get back.
 
This book is full of "out-takes" from the lunar photography missions.
http://www.amazon.com/Full-Moon-Andrew-Chaikin/dp/0375406344
A real treat... I do wonder how long the family photo-Polaroid lasted on the lunar surface.
No they didn't take a Polaroid Camera, but on the the astronauts took a polaroid photo of his wife and kids along and left it on the lunar surface. NASA allowed him or he took the liberty of snapping a photo of the polaroid in the lunar dust with the Hasselbald. It's a neat photo and a neat tribute to his family that must have been terrified the whole time he was on the mission.
 
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