How many Hasselblad's are on the Moon?

Steve Smith · Mar 15, 2011

Paul Green said:
Do they still sell sections of the moon on ebay..?

How much is the postage on that? Might be worth getting a section with a Hasselblad on it!

likemarlonbrando said:
so the question, would you rather have a moon rock or a moon hasselblad?

Does anyone want a game of Scissors, Paper, Hasselblad?

Steve.

degruyl · Mar 15, 2011

I think we just found a way to fund the next moon mission: auction the 12 'blads upon their return to our green hills.

vpwphoto · Mar 15, 2011

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.

PentaxBronica · Mar 15, 2011

tomalophicon said:
I wonder if there will ever be a Bronica on the moon.

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...

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.

Willie Jan · Mar 15, 2011

If you say it is going to the moon "naar de maan" it means where i live that you broke it...

lxdude · Mar 15, 2011

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.

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.

36cm2 · Mar 15, 2011

There aren't any more Hasselblads on the moon. The aliens beamed them up to replace their inferior digital cameras.

TareqPhoto · Mar 16, 2011

Yesterday i took a shot of the moon, i saw one Hasselblad there, where are the rest???

mopar_guy · Mar 16, 2011

Can you buy Tri-X on the moon?

Klainmeister · Mar 16, 2011

I heard that in a bout of irony that NASA decided to leave behind a few Kiev 88's...

BrianShaw · Mar 16, 2011

Photo Engineer said:
IDK, but there is at least one in orbit.

PE

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Hassy left in orbit re-entered quite a while ago. From dust to dust.

Marvin · Mar 16, 2011

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!

Sirius Glass · Mar 16, 2011

12 too many!

Jeff Kubach · Mar 16, 2011

mopar_guy said:
Can you buy Tri-X on the moon?

Not on Sundays!!

Jeff

Photo Engineer · Mar 16, 2011

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

MattKing · Mar 16, 2011

Whenever I see this thread, it's as if I can hear music

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Marvin · Mar 16, 2011

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.

paul ron · Mar 16, 2011

likemarlonbrando said:
does anyone know why they left them on the moon?

They were jammed, dam wothless junkers!

Photo Engineer · Mar 16, 2011

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.

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

fmajor · Mar 16, 2011

Meh. They left ALL of 'em!!!

They wanted *excellent* photos so they brought back their Mamiya's!!! ;-)

tomalophicon · Mar 16, 2011

fmajor said:
Meh. They left ALL of 'em!!!

They wanted *excellent* photos so they brought back their Mamiya's!!! ;-)

Lol.

vpwphoto · Mar 16, 2011

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.

Photo Engineer · Mar 16, 2011

I have no idea about shielding.

PE

vpwphoto · Mar 16, 2011

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.

vpwphoto · Mar 16, 2011

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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