[rollei_list] Re: NASA & Rollie
- From: "Austin Franklin" <austin.franklin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:52:49 -0500
A clip from an old post that was sourced from the (old) Hasselblad website
on this subject:
"Thirty years ago prospective astronaut Walter Schirra went into a
photographic shop in Houston and bought a Hasselblad 500C with a standard
Planar f/2.8, 80 mm lens. All the leather was then stripped from the camera
body and it was painted black to minimise reflections.
onboard a Mercury in October 1962, Walter Schirra took the first space
photographs using a Hasselblad. Thus began the first page in a new chapter
in the history of Hasselblad and photography."
Regards,
Austin
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Austin Franklin
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:47 AM
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> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: NASA & Rollie
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> Wally Schirra
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Wild
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:39 AM
> > To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: NASA & Rollie
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elias Roustom
> > Sent: 27 October 2009 13:00
> > To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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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