Wouldn't you love this camera?

[David A. Goldfarb]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Just an update,

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

 

[Flotsam]

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

 

[Frank Petronio]

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]

Why bother. It is fake!

We were never on the moon!

 

[Flotsam]

Why bother. It is fake!

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

 

[modafoto]

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!