Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was 30 years ago today. Sargent Rabiner got his first Hasselblad ELM to play. He'd been wanting it since he was 12 And he was 28 Y's & 6 M's old. Didn't take too long. Ho Ho Ho But the ELM was a metal munching mistake. Not a medium format version of the nikon FM with MD12 motor drive and 105 2.5 lens has knocking their socks out with in Portland Oregon. But again a metal munching slow moving zombie like monster. I got it with a 220 back. Not too great with 120 film. In time I got other than a 150 Sonnar and got nice 120 backs and others and a prisms and a 500 CM with Acumat screen. The screen being the main thing as you could not see through the darned thing before. The moon Hassy they took the whole finder out. Point and shoot. Witch square medium format you can just point the camera in the general direction of say "the earth" guy with space suit. Model. Bride. Account exec. And get a picture; you can fix later. Mark William Rabiner > From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:24:42 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Hasselblad/Leica on the moon > > Russians sent a Leica to space: > > LEICA, THE SPACE DOG > > When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik II into space on November 3, 1957, > there was one sole passenger aboard. Leica (also transliterated as Laika), > a > German Shepherd, orbited the Earth for seven days aboard the spacecraft. > Scientists believed that by monitoring Leica, they could learn about > radiation and weightlessness on animals in space. > Encyclopedia.com > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM, EPL <manolito at videotron.ca> wrote: > >> Leicas were indeed prepared for NASA but I've seen no evidence that any >> were >> actually used aloft. I believe these were MDa bodies with 1.2 Noctilux >> lenses, controls oversized for use with gloved hands. >> >> The first mammal in orbit was Laika, a dog launched aboard Sputnik 2 in >> 1957. >> >> Emanuel >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana (+31.754164,-093.099080) > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information