Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/17

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Re:What about the Hasselblads in space?
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Wed Nov 17 22:23:15 2004

NASA also used Linhof 4 x 5 Contax SLR (original German) and Nikon F
cameras...

> Emanuel:  That may explain what I was just looking at.  Andrew's link to
> the Apollo photographs sent me on a mission there to relive my days as a
> young space nut. Fantastic stuff.
> 
> In the Apollo 17 photos, part 2, I found a number of grainy black and white
> images taken in the Command Module on the way back to Earth.  They were
> *not* square, looked very much like vertical 35mm frames, and looked like
> very fast film from that era.
> 
> Those were the days.  Thanks for the memories, Andrew!  Roger, Houston, we
> copy. . .
> 
> --Peter
> 
> In the matter of:
> http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html
> 
> Emanuel Lowi <lowiemanuel@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> There were Leica M4 cameras and 50/1.2 Noctilux lenses
>> also modified by NASA (larger controls etc.) for use
>> in extra-terra. No info on what missions they may have
>> been employed, though.
> 
> 
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