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Hasselblad Apollo 11, 40th

No problem Steve.
You know keeping OT is one of the lesser developed and controlled things here.
It is part of the relaxed atmosphere. I consider that more important than playing police officer subject OT.


Paul
 
Ot , ot ? ? ? ?

OT , OT , OT :z04_2171:

can you two please explain what that OT means ? ? ?

Jürgen
 
I've often found my interest in photography nicely merging with my interest in astronomy....so it's a welcome thread!

Anyone here hooked a Hasselbald up to a big telescope? Wide field astro photos with a 'blad? I've done it with my Pentax 67....no reason why it can't be done with the Hasselblad of course.

Gary
Alaska
 
A welcome topic for me too, Steve. Thanks for posting.

Hirschel's telescope cost £4000 in 1785. I thought that sounded cheap for a 40-foot super-optic... In current values, that compares to £424,000 and £5.1 million, depending on how you do the conversion--whoops! That's not so cheap. (http://www.measuringworth.com/index.html)

And I thought the 300/2.8 TPP was expensive! :)

-Brad
 
Thanks for the link to this book. I have just ordered it. I watched the moon landings as a baby/little child and still remember building moon rovers at the kindergarden. The influence has been strong since then. There must be a reason why I have all these Hasselblads. And why I analyzed extraterrestrial rocks for some years. And there must be a reason why I applied for the astronaut job at ESA last year. Downside is that - as we are talking about a 40th anniversary - I may have been a bit too old for that job by now... But the team that they have chosen is great and I hope that they will return to the moon and do good science there (and take good pictures of course, but at least one of these future astronauts has proven already to be a capable photographer).

Ulrik
 
There must be a reason why I have all these Hasselblads.
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I blame Paul....With the Moon/Hassy connection, I just ordered a 500 ELM 20th Moon Landing Commemorative (Gray)...I have had no desire for an EL but what the heck!!! Now I need to find a Gray HC-3/70..Does it exist???
 
Steve,

I am sure you will be able to find a can with marine grey paint to convert the HC 3-70 into a suitable finder for the grey ELM........
To answer your question, no those finders only came in black paint.

A pity it does not concern a Leica M2 or M3.
They are worth something extra in black paint.


Paul
 
NASA could ask for and order just about everything they could think of.
Hasselblad had a special department in those days that only catered for the wishes and needs of NASA.
 
40 years ago

Hello everyone, I remember being at school and watching the fuzzy images on TV. I wrote to NASA and they sent me 12 colour photos as a kit of the landing. I had to show you this from the Hasselblad site in case you haven't already seen it.... they left the bodies on the moon and only brought back the film magazines !!!

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Hasselblad EDC (Electric Data Camera)

This is a specially designed version of the motorized 500EL intended for use on the surface of the moon, where the first lunar pictures were taken on 20 July 1969 by Neil Armstrong. The camera is equipped with a specially designed Biogon lens with a focal length of 60 mm, with a polarization filter mounted on the lens. A glass plate (Reseau-Plate), provided with reference crosses which are recorded on the film during exposure, is in contact with the film, and these crosses can be seen on all the pictures taken on the moon from 1969 to 1972. The 12 HEDC cameras used on the surface of the moon were left there. Only the film magazines were brought back.
 

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they left the bodies on the moon
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Those eleven HDC camera bodies are the most valuable 'blads in existence. Nordin says that a fully loaded and exposed magazine was also left, by accident.

The HDC with the 60mm Biogon (pictured) had never been tested in space prior to Apollo 11 and it was the only camera on the Apollo lander..no backup.
 
vandevantersh said:
they left the bodies on the moon
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Those eleven HDC camera bodies are the most valuable 'blads in existence. Nordin says that a fully loaded and exposed magazine was also left, by accident.

The HDC with the 60mm Biogon (pictured) had never been tested in space prior to Apollo 11 and it was the only camera on the Apollo lander..no backup.
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I hear they are going back in 2010 - will they be able to retrieve the exposed magazine ?
 
For these missions both the 100 mm MK Planar and the 60 mm Biogon were used.

The 100 mm Planar is part of my collection.
That makes the 60 mm Biogon a much wanted lens on my wish list.


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100mm MK 70 Planar lens
 

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