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Out-of-this-world Photography: Developing film in space
Some of the highest resolution images of the moon still in use by our intrepid scientists were shot by five Lunar Orbiter Spacecrafts, launched by NASA in 1966 and 1967. Did they use some sort of really advanced digital imaging technology to make these images? Nope; that sort of tech was years--decades--away, at least if you wanted to put it into a satellite small enough to escape the earth's gravity well and get all the way to the moon. These orbiters used film to make their high-res images.
These spacecraft were the world's first extraterrestrial mobile foto-mats: they exposed, developed, and printed (by way of scanning the film line by line into a tv transmission beamed to earth) photographic images so fine that they are still in use today. The scanned images were beamed back to earth, reassembled on a kinescope, and then re-exposed to terrestrial-based film.
Whenever I am out on assignment for a client shooting a seemingly impossible subject, from a seemingly impossible angle, I am comforted by the fact that at least I'm not trying to expose, develop, and scan my photos 246,000 miles from earth.Labels: photography
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