Marco B
Subscriber
Hi all,
Just going through the George Eastman House website's Podcast section, I noticed there is also a film of the 1966 Lunar Orbiter Camera that was used to map the moon's surface in preparation for the moon landings.
Now this camera was quite an amazing thing, it was a camera / mini lab (develop + dry, well actually kind of Polaroid stuff) AND scanner in one!
And just 35 pounds...
Of course they just couldn't produce a high enough resolution digital chip at the time, and getting the film back from space was probably to costly too, so after scanning, it got send back. Amazing.
Well, probably PE can comment on this camera too, it was build by Eastman Kodak and PE was involved in the space stuff...
It was fun watching this movie:
ONE BIG TIP: if you click the "ITunes" button beneath the player and have ITunes installed, you will be able to download a higher resolution video with bigger screen size and better image detail.
http://www.eastmanhouse.org/
and than go to the "Podcast" section and scroll down, there you will find it.
Marco
Just going through the George Eastman House website's Podcast section, I noticed there is also a film of the 1966 Lunar Orbiter Camera that was used to map the moon's surface in preparation for the moon landings.
Now this camera was quite an amazing thing, it was a camera / mini lab (develop + dry, well actually kind of Polaroid stuff) AND scanner in one!


Well, probably PE can comment on this camera too, it was build by Eastman Kodak and PE was involved in the space stuff...
It was fun watching this movie:
ONE BIG TIP: if you click the "ITunes" button beneath the player and have ITunes installed, you will be able to download a higher resolution video with bigger screen size and better image detail.
http://www.eastmanhouse.org/
and than go to the "Podcast" section and scroll down, there you will find it.
Marco