[rollei_list] Re: NASA & Rollie
- From: "Austin Franklin" <austin.franklin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:46:39 -0500
Wally Schirra
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> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Wild
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:39 AM
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> I had read somewhere that one of the astronauts (cannot remember which
> one off hand), when NASA realized that they did not have a suitable
> camera for the pending mission, popped out to the local store and bought
> a Hasselblad 500...
>
> See:
>
> http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography//companies/nikon/hasselblad/cameras
> /hasselmodels/models/space1.htm
>
> NASA did use a Rolleiflex 6006 or 6008 at one time. There is a NASA
> Rolleiflex 6000 camera which appears on Ebay every so often at a very
> high 'Buy it now' price
>
> John
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>
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>
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> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elias Roustom
> Sent: 27 October 2009 13:00
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> Subject: [rollei_list] NASA & Rollie
>
> To completely change the subject from everest.
> Why did NASA go with Hasselblad slr, and not Rollei tlr when they went
> to the moon.
> Politics or mechanics?
>
> E.
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