Rememer Optimate 2?

chip j

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A miraculous film dev.--prints made from film processed in it didn't look like prints--it was like looking thru an open window! (But I got streaks in broad expanses of gray and had to quit using it). It came in a neat little kit.
 
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chip j

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I must be an old coot---it was out in the 70's, maybe into the 80's. Almost every pro camera store had it. I have no web info, sorry.
 

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I found a reference to Optimate-2 in this 1985 NASA document, on page 71 in the middle of the page (page 80 of the pdf file): http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19850027076.pdf

It looks like they were trying different lenses, and different film/developer combinations, to get maximum photographic resolution for use in the study. It looks like Kodak Recording Film 2475 and DK-50 beat out Tri-X and Optimate-2.

Matt
 

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On the subject of orphan technologies, does anyone remember Polaroid Movie film? It was a fantastically pointless medium that sank without trace. I seem to remember Dixons (UK high street photo chain) shifting the camera, projector, processor kit for £60 before the system succumbed to the inevitable. Apologies for the thread segway.
 
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chip j

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Optimate 2 was not about resolution, but about "Being There"!
 
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