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David A. Goldfarb · May 21, 2005

According to The Linhof Camera Story NASA bought 5 Aerotechnikas, modified them somewhat, and they have been working perfectly since 1983--can't vouch for earlier than that.

MattCarey · May 21, 2005

David A. Goldfarb said:
According to The Linhof Camera Story NASA bought 5 Aerotechnikas, modified them somewhat, and they have been working perfectly since 1983--can't vouch for earlier than that.

I was incorect. I was thinking of the "Hycon" camera used for Apollo 14. As near as I can tell, it was a modified U2 camera.

The cameras since 1983 would have been space shuttle toys. Hence, they would return to earth. The Hycon may have burned up with the LM.

Matt

Tom Hoskinson · May 21, 2005

MattCarey said:
NASA has most of the images from the missions on a site somewhere in 3MB files that are good to about 8x10...
Matt

NASA Langley

MattCarey · May 21, 2005

Tom Hoskinson said:
NASA Langley

I used to know the sites pretty well--Langley has images, but I can't find them quickly right now.

Most of the more famous ones can be found at grin (Great Images in NASA). They have some very high res scans.

http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/subject-space.html

Johnson space center (jsc) has an archive as well
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I think this is the one I remember using the most. The have the 3MB scans of each image.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/
with this one for Apollo
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/index.html

This site lists the different archives:
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Matt

brent8927 · May 21, 2005

Just an update,

Both cameras sold for about $34,000. I sure wish I had a $34,000 camera...

Flotsam · May 21, 2005

I wish that I had a thousand dollar camera and $33,000 in my bank account.

Frank Petronio · May 21, 2005

Back before Atkins and Muttershead went on the warpath, there was a great thread about surplus Lunar Technikas from Apollo 19 (which never flew...). I swear I could have sold some ratty Tech IVs for mega-bucks had I played it straight.

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=005bG4

modafoto · May 23, 2005

Why bother. It is fake!

We were never on the moon!

Flotsam · May 23, 2005

modafoto said:
Why bother. It is fake!

And even Hasselblad is involved, making phoney "moon" cameras.

modafoto · May 23, 2005

Flotsam said:
And even Hasselblad is involved, making phoney "moon" cameras.

Hasselblad is a conspiracy, too! They are solely made to control the minds of photogs all over the world. People are hyptotized when trying to focus!

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