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It may be that the US market cameras - the "Honeywell" ones - were slightly different than the ones sold elsewhere.
 

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There doesn't appear to be a shutter speed dial on the top plate.

The prism is sharp and pointed, much more so than a Pentax.

The rewind knob is tall - almost like a non-crank knob as on a Leica III.

Some Yashica, Miranda, and Mamiya models come close, but not quite a match.
 

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I'd vote for a Yasica J3 with a non-factory rewind knob.
 

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Another idea is the Minolta SR-7, but here the lateral position of the sensor window does not fit..

I give up on this. And leave it at the Yashica J3...
 

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I would say another near miss, but yes I thougt of Cosina cameras already. But there are so many variations...
 

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I do not follow this post very often, so forgive me if this was mentioned recently......... China Town, with Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson.
A few times, toward the beginning of the movie, Jack is using some kind of 35mm rangefinder and he has a fairly long lens on it.
 
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I just watched the movie Apollo 11. It is a new film produced by CNN and based on newly recovered film and video from 1969 showing the mission control activities, launch, moon landing, and ocean recovery. Highly recommended!
1. Near the beginning, the astronauts are being suited up and some photographers in white coveralls/suits (I assume NASA employees) are taking pictures with a Rolleiflex TLR and Nikon F.
2. Out on the beaches on launch day, tourists have all sorts of still and movie cameras. I saw a Nikkormat, and one fellow had some sort of SLR with a selenium patch on the hump, maybe a Bessamatic.
3. As the astronauts were being escorted to the transport van, there were some tripods set up but without cameras. One was definitely an older Tiltall, the genuine one from the Marchioni brothers in New Jersey.
4. At launch time, a tiltable platform had television cameras set up to track the rocket. A big old-style TV camera wore a home-made hood that looked like a cardboard box attached with tape.
5. After landing, some photographers took pictures of the astronauts with Nikon Fs.
6. They did not show the lunar Hasselblads but did present some of the wonderful Ektachrome frames taken on the moon.
 

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6. They did not show the lunar Hasselblads but did present some of the wonderful Ektachrome frames taken on the moon.

I agree with Europan, or at least I have more than fierce doubts on the moon landing. It's matter for another thread, and it was discussed very extensively years ago.
Now it seems that the US want to go the moon again, and China as well. So, we'll see. Hopefully this time NASA doesn't cancel the original video tape, doesn't destroy the blueprints, doesn't lose the telemetry data, and doesn't give us pictures with all shades in one direction in the foreground, and all shades in another direction in the background. Hopefully this time NASA doesn't cancel the mission advocating the impossibility to cross the Van Allen radiation belt, as NASA did at the beginning of this century (and as the Soviet Union did in the '60s).

Yet it is appropriate in this thread to mention that no whatsoever "wonderful color Ektachrome" were allegedly taken on the moon. Allegedly, the pictures taken on the moon were all B&W, probably on a film with synthetic support, because organic support would have become too brittle and fragile in low temperatures.
 

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Nobody has ever been on the Moon and no rover ever moved on Mars. No television, no Moon landing. No personal computer, no Mars imagery.

I agree with Europan, or at least I have more than fierce doubts on the moon landing. It's matter for another thread, and it was discussed very extensively years ago.
(snip)
Yet it is appropriate in this thread to mention that no whatsoever "wonderful color Ektachrome" were allegedly taken on the moon. Allegedly, the pictures taken on the moon were all B&W, probably on a film with synthetic support, because organic support would have become too brittle and fragile in low temperatures.

I hope you guys are being ironic. It is truly discouraging to think anyone would have this opinion...
 

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Yet it is appropriate in this thread to mention that no whatsoever "wonderful color Ektachrome" were allegedly taken on the moon. Allegedly, the pictures taken on the moon were all B&W, probably on a film with synthetic support, because organic support would have become too brittle and fragile in low temperatures.
Well, for the conspiracy theory denizens amongst Photrio's members, the official NASA web page describes the cameras and films used on the Apollo missions:
https://www.history.nasa.gov/apollo_photo.html

Here is an excerpt from the Apollo 8 mission:
"Each film magazine would typically yield 160 color and 200 black and white pictures on special film. Kodak was asked by NASA to develop thin new films with special emulsions. On Apollo 8, three magazines were loaded with 70 mm wide, perforated Kodak Panatomic-X fine-grained, 80 ASA, b/w film, two with Kodak Ektachrome SO-168, one with Kodak Ektachrome SO-121, and one with super light-sensitive Kodak 2485, 16,000 ASA film. There were 1100 color, black and white, and filtered photographs returned from the Apollo 8 mission."
 

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Boy, is this thread going to go off the rails...
 

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The History Channel had a documentary on the Lockheed "Skunk Works". One scene had this camera I cannot identify:


IMG_20190609_235736613_BURST000_COVER_TOP~3.jpg IMG_20190609_235709557~3.jpg IMG_20190609_235452641~3.jpg

There appear to be three windows or sections at the upper front of the camera and there seems to be a metal latch of some sort beneath the lens.
 

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The History Channel had a documentary on the Lockheed "Skunk Works". One scene had this camera I cannot identify:
There appear to be three windows or sections at the upper front of the camera and there seems to be a metal latch of some sort beneath the lens.

Kodak Motormatic 35mm
 

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Well, for the conspiracy theory denizens amongst Photrio's members, the official NASA web page describes the cameras and films used on the Apollo missions:
https://www.history.nasa.gov/apollo_photo.html

Here is an excerpt from the Apollo 8 mission:
"Each film magazine would typically yield 160 color and 200 black and white pictures on special film. Kodak was asked by NASA to develop thin new films with special emulsions. On Apollo 8, three magazines were loaded with 70 mm wide, perforated Kodak Panatomic-X fine-grained, 80 ASA, b/w film, two with Kodak Ektachrome SO-168, one with Kodak Ektachrome SO-121, and one with super light-sensitive Kodak 2485, 16,000 ASA film. There were 1100 color, black and white, and filtered photographs returned from the Apollo 8 mission."

If you read the text attentively, you see that on the Moon surface only 1 camera was brought, and 2 film backs. For what I remember, those were B&W.
All the rest that you read was brought "on the mission", not "on the Moon".
Other cameras were used during the mission to take pictures (allegedly) from the spacecraft or what is its name.
I don't remember seeing a colour picture taken (allegedly) from the Moon surface during Apollo 11 ever in my life, it's all B&W.
Colour pictures have always been taken during space trips, which show e.g. the Earth in colour.

There is a very long thread on this already on APUG/Photrio, you will find it very easily. Don't give anything for granted.
 
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